The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht now on display at the Dear Library exhibition We have received a letter from Amina Shah, the National Librarian of Scotland today (December 4) in respect of her recent BBC interview. In October, Ms Shah told the BBC podcast Front Row that her initial decision to exclude The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht…

On Monday 1 December, we received an apology from the board of the National Library of Scotland for the Library’s recent treatment of our book The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht. Letter attached. We have today (3 December 2025) replied to Sir Drummond Bone, accepting his apology on behalf of the board (letter attached) and we…

Our attention has been drawn to an open letter in circulation seeking to put pressure on the National Library of Scotland to reverse its decision to restate the book we edited, The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, in its current Dear Library exhibition.  It is an outrageous and unwarranted attack on a major national cultural institution…

The editors of The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Susan Dalgety, have today written to Clare Adamson MSP, convener of the Scottish Parliament’s Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture committee. (Letter attached). In light of the National Librarian’s interview on the BBC’s Front Row programme on the evening of the report’s publication…

Two hours after we sent our letter to Angus Roberston, the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, we received this letter from Amina Shah, the National Librarian Our response to the National Librarian where we ask for a meeting now and not in a month’s time

Thank you sisters: Women have been leaving messages in the Dear Library exhibition at the National Library of Scotland Read our letter to Angus Robertson MSP here