Name/TitleMagazine: Scottish Home and Country
About this objectSmall magazine titled 'Scottish Home and Country', published by the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes and edited by Stella Roberts. Issued in June 1997, priced 75 pence. The cover image is an old sepia photograph of SWRI founder Catherine Blair with the Queen Mother, then Duchess of York. This corresponds to a feature inside the magazine; an extract from 'Rural Journey', written in 1939, in which Catherine describes her experiences in the Rural's early years, including the women's suffrage movement. Also featured are 'Happy Birthday' by Stella Roberts, 'Dear Deborah' by Deborah Morris, 'Alexander Technique' by Airlie Fleming, 'Three Go Off to Camp' by Elizabeth Strachan and 'Memories of the Highland Show' by Sine Robertson. The magazine also contains SWRI HQ notes, regional news, letters, obituaries, book reviews, cookery and puzzles/competitions.
Fully digitised (56 pages)
MakerScottish Women's Rural Institutes
Maker RolePublisher
Date Made1997
Period1990s
Place MadeScotland, Edinburgh
Place NotesScottish Women's Rural Institutes, 42a Heriot Row, Edinburgh EH3 6ES
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 213 x W: 150 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsWomen's Institute (WI)
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's organisations
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's suffrage, right to vote
Subject and Association Keywordshousehold, housekeeping
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Women's_Institutes:
The Scottish Women's Institutes (SWI), informally called "the Rural", is a registered charity which promotes the preservation of Scotland's traditions and rural heritage, particularly in the sphere of household activities. It does so by means of local groups of women which meet regularly throughout the country. It was formed on 26 June 1917 as the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes, part of the movement of rural women's institutes started in Stoney Creek, Ontario in 1897. The first meeting in Scotland look place at Longniddry in East Lothian. Catherine Hogg Blair had identified the need for a Scottish example of the emerging Women's Institutes movement and she organised the meeting at Longniddry to avoid a measles outbreak in her own village. 37 women became members and campaigner Nannie Brown was the area organiser. The SWRI created the chance for rural women to network and share their skills with one another. The group's magazine, Scottish Home and Country was first published in 1924. The name changed to Scottish Women's Institutes in 2015.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeMagazine
Object numberGWL-2023-45-2
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved