Scottish Women's Institutes

Scottish Women's Institutes (SWI) is a Scottish member-led organisation which is informally called "the Rural", after its original name Scottish Women's Rural Institutes. It was launched in June 1917 by Catherine Blair, a suffragette and advocate for rural women, to enable women in rural areas of the country to socialise, learn new crafting skills, and make money from items they made rather than rely on their men bringing home a wage.

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