This year we will be naming of the Bessie Watson Lecture Theatre in the Outreach Centre, Holyrood Campus on International Women’s Day 2024.
Please join me from 9.15-10.15 a.m. on Friday 8th March to honour Bessie Watson (1900-1992), Scotland’s youngest suffragette.
Bessie marched and played the bagpipes for the Women’s Social and Political Union in the early 20th century, aged just nine. She continued to be involved in the suffrage movement throughout her childhood, piping outside Calton Jail to raise the morale of the imprisoned women. She went on to study French at the University of Edinburgh, and had a career teaching violin and modern languages across the city.
We will also be editing Wikipedia. to help write women onto Wikipedia as part of IWD 2024.
“Women in Red” – a Wikipedia editathon will celebrate the lives and contributions of all the inspiring women of Scotland (and around the world) missing from the world’s go-to site for information.
This event will focus on the women activists, past and present, who have campaigned for women’s rights, education, universal suffrage and global justice around the world.
Where and when – Friday 9th March, 1pm-4.30pm in Digital Scholarship Centre, Main Library
Book your spot via Eventbrite here.
