Queering the Archive: Drag in the School of Scottish Studies Archives For our second blog and part two to the last blog Queering the Archive, join us as we celebrate the cultural records of ‘drag’ in the archives.   Drag is described as a gender …Continue reading →

Queering the Archive: Cross-Dressing Ballads in the School of Scottish Studies Archive TAGS: Ballads | Drag | LGBT+ | Queer | Queer Theory | Queering | Queering SSSA | Queering The Archive | QueeringSSSA | QueeringTheArchive | Sea Shanties | SSSA | SSSAAt70 As the first in our series of blogs as part of ‘Queering the Archive’ initiative, I discuss some infamous ‘cross-dressing’ ballads within our collections.   Here at the School of Scottish Studies, …Continue reading →

Queering the Archive: An Announcement of a New Initiative TAGS: Archives | LGBT+ | Queer | Queering | QueeringSSSA | QueeringTheArchive | QueerTheory | SSSA@70 We are excited to announce the work on our new Queering the Archive initiative. This initiative aims to increase representation of LGBT+ records within our collections.  Queering the Archive will hope …Continue reading →

Meet the Team TAGS: Meet the Team It is a pleasure to bring the SSSA blog into the world and given that this is our 70th Anniversary it would seem that introductions are long overdue. Fran Baseby, …Continue reading →