Witchcraft, Waulking & Will-o’-the-Wisps – Exploring the Maclagan Manuscripts TAGS: Bookeye | Dr Robert Craig Maclagan | folklore | Gaelic | Light Sheet | Maclagan Manuscripts | Paper Manufacturing | scanning | School of Scottish Studies Archives | Scotland | SSSA | Watermarks | West Highlands Have you ever been stuck for a good nursery rhyme to tell your kids? Or needed a cure for a headache that just will not go away? Or perhaps you’ve found …Continue reading →

Celebrating a 70th Anniversary Acquisition! TAGS: Archives | coal mining | Fife | Fishing | Glasgow | Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert | Longannet Colliery | Mining | North Sea | Paddy's Market | photography | School of Scottish Studies Archive | Scotland | SSSA | sssa at 70 Earlier this year, the School of Scottish Studies Archive and the Centre for Research Collections teamed up with renowned Scottish photographer, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, to add a landmark collection of photos …Continue reading →

SSSA in 70 Objects: Filling the Creative Well: A Tribute to Joan W. Clark TAGS: archive in 70 objects | Manuscript at 70 | SSSA | SSSA in 70 Objects Manuscript: The Joan Clark Collection Response by: Elaine MacGillivray   Out of a thousand possible options, I have chosen to respond to the manuscript collection of Scottish botanist Joan W. …Continue reading →

Queering the Archive with Rufus Elliot from OVER/AT and the new EP, “Folk’s Songs” TAGS: Archives | LGBT+ | music | QTA | Queering | Queering SSSA | Queering The Archive | Rufus Elliot | SSSA | SSSAAt70       As part of the Queering the Archive project, we will feature conversations and podcasts with various people undertaking work and projects that feature LGBT+ voices and representation. …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 →

SSSA @ 70 TAGS: SSSA | SSSA@70   In 2021 the School of Scottish Studies Archives celebrates our 70th Anniversary and we look forward to sharing exciting content, news and events with you this year. We are …Continue reading →