Reflections on an interdisciplinary conference focused on the Nineteenth-Century Archive as a Discourse of Power; what common issues do historians and archivists face in using these materials?
What do we owe the dead?
Author: Lucy Janes
I am a part-time student on the Information Management and Preservation MSc at Glasgow University. I have experience as a volunteer with the Glasgow Women’s Library and work as a part-time archive assistant at Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections. I convene the history group at the Arlington Baths Club in Glasgow, a group of volunteers who are investigating the Baths’ 150 years of history. See the Arlington Baths Club History Group blog at https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @ELucyJanes | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucyjanes/
Threads of Life and Scotland’s textiles
The power of personal and community textiles: records of identity, self expression, skill, artistry and industry.
Ladies, mill girls and mapmakers: the launch of the Textual Editing Lab
Letters from a rebellious Elizabethan lady, former Paisley mill girls and a 19th century London mapmaker were just few of the contexts for talks at the launch of the University of Glasgow Textual Editing Lab.
Glasgow views: where’s the value?
I started this photo appraisal and selection task by visiting my large collection of personal photos from around Glasgow. I had to select just three from more than 300 images. How could I decide what to keep?
Virtual Reality and Immersive Technologies for Interpreting Cultural Heritage in Catalonia
This lecture by Albert Sierra from the Catalan Cultural Heritage Agency challenges us to ask whether the amazing interactions offered by new technologies are necessarily the best way for people to engage with the past?
Testing, testing… and decoding
Digital Curation week one and our mission was to break a lot of files and decode some clues; could we do it? Tessa, Matt, Musa and Lucy had a go...
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: manuscript marvels at the British Library
Why is seeing the actual Domesday Book at the British Library is almost an anti-climax? Because everything else in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition is so completely marvellous.
Imps in the archive 