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November 7, 2024
Queering the Archive with drag king Dorian T. Fisk TAGS: Dorian Fisk | Dorian T. Fisk | Drag | Drag King | Drag Kings | King | Kings | LGBT+ | Queer | Queering | Queering The Archive | QueeringSSSA For the second podcast for Queering the Archive, Elliot sat down with Dorian T. Fisk to discuss representation in the drag scene and elsewhere. Dorian is just one of many of Scotland’s …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 →
Archival Provenance Project: Emily’s finds
My name is Emily, and I’m the second of the two archive interns that...
Archival Provenance Project: a glimpse into the university’s history through some of its oldest manuscripts
My name is Madeleine Reynolds, a fourth year PhD candidate in History of Art....
Sustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles
In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed...
Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings
In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers,...