Reflections of Trauma, Challenges and Healing: An Oral History

07/11/2025

Are you interested in social history? There is still time for volunteer researchers and writers and artists to participate in this wonderful project! Go on - contact Glasgow Story Collective today!

12/10/2025

Please check Glasgow Story Collective’s page out. If you like what you see then please take a minute to vote for our exciting and well engaged with community oral history project called Marmite Housing. We’re in the North West category. The project is active in the North Highlands as well as the Glasgow area.

Thanks to our wonderful volunteers, respondents and supporters, your amazing 'Marmite Housing' oral history project has made the shortlist - now it’s over to YOU!
The public is officially one of the judges, so your vote counts just as much as theirs.
Please help us bring home the win by voting here - the project covers wider Glasgow and we're in the North West category:
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/community-champion-awards/

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Past & Futures Society
Strathclyde Heritage Group
's Southside+ Stories

14/09/2025

A brave lady who fought for change. x

In 1860, Elizabeth Packard had been married for 21 years and was raising six children when her husband did something unthinkable: he had her committed to an asylum.
Not because she was violent. Not because she was unstable. But because she dared to think differently. She questioned his strict Calvinist beliefs, and in Illinois at the time, a husband could institutionalize his wife without trial, proof, or consent.
Inside the asylum, Elizabeth quickly discovered the truth: many women there weren’t “mad” at all. They were wives who resisted, daughters who disobeyed, women who refused to be silent. Instead of breaking, Elizabeth wrote, observed, and waited.
After three years, she stood in court, defended her right to her own thoughts, and won her freedom. But she didn’t stop there. She wrote books exposing wrongful confinement, lobbied lawmakers, and pushed through reforms that made it harder for women to be silenced under the label of insanity.
Elizabeth Packard chose truth over silence. Her fight cost her nearly everything — but gave countless women the protection she was denied.
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22/07/2025