The Heritage Lottery Fund announced today a grant of £410,000 to create the first Women's Archive in Scotland.

Filling 500 packing boxes, material documenting the social history of women over the last century has been collected by the Glasgow Women's Library.

It includes 30,000 publications, letters, drawings, recordings, film and photographs collectively illustrate women's experiences and activism over the years.

A purpose-built facility will house the archive within Glasgow Women's Library's new premises at the Mitchell Library.