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November 7, 2024
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 →
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,...