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28 Feb 2024
#ScottishArchivesDay 73 years on, we now hold approx. 33,000 hours of oral history recordings including​ Ethnological fieldwork on all aspects of Scottish life. You can access thousands of our recordings via the @TobarDualchais website. #digital
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7 Nov 2024
Mar sin leibh! It's been a great run on this platform. Thanks to everyone for your support, but it's time to say goodbye. Make sure to follow us (scottish.studies.archives) on Instagram to keep up to date with our work and engage with our collections. See you there!
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5 Sep 2024
Ainmean Charraige/Carrick Names is holding a one-day conference on the subject of Carrick's Gaelic Heritage. Sign-up and tickets are available for the conference held at the Carrick Centre, Maybole on 14 September 2024 tickettailor.com/events/ainm…
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Extended by popular demand, you can now visit our free @EdUniMainLib exhibition 'Panoramas' until 2 November 2024. Open Monday to Saturday, 10am-6pm.
For the first time in 200 years, see Robert and Henry Aston Barker's Panorama of Edinburgh in 360° - now showing in our free exhibition in the Main Library Exhibition Gallery. Open Mon-Thurs, 10am-6pm. Video animation by @ediucreate Makerspace Student Technician Zita Takacs
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26 Jul 2024
Ainmean Charraige/Carrick Names is holding a one-day conference on the subject of Carrick's Gaelic Heritage. Sign-up and tickets are available now for the conference held at the Carrick Centre, Maybole on 14 September 2024: tickettailor.com/events/ainm…
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Calling all Archivists! Please circulate. 6-month 0.5FTE post available on research project with @LoriWatsonmusic. Closing date 6th June 2024. shorturl.at/6fTjv #archive #job #research #music #culture #Scotland @EU_SSSA @CRC_EdUni @StCeciliasHall @ScotsArchives

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2 May 2024
Amazing launch event yesterday from our friends at the @RESP_Archive. Treated to a live performance and some fantastic tales/personal connections. The online exhibition is now live: exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibit… .Do check it out as soon as you can! #oralhistory #animals #localmemories
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🙌 what a nice find - Hamish Henderson in full flow in this old RTE documentary open.spotify.com/episode/6pv…
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29 Mar 2024
Applications are open for the AV Digitisation Technician role. This is for an open-ended contract and full-time 35 hours per week. The closing date for application is 8th April 2024. More information and application via the link: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/…
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29 Mar 2024
Free tickets are available for the 2024 Ian MacDougall Memorial Lecture event and book launch for 'Border Mills: Lives of Peeblesshire Textile Workers'. Held at @natlibscot on 4th April, 5-7pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/border-mi…
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29 Mar 2024
In the event, Caroline Milligan will discuss the book which is based on a series of interviews the late Ian MacDougall conducted with mill workers between 1996 and 2004. This will be followed by a presentation on the new oral history project from The Mills of Tweeddale Project
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Last weekend the world of Scottish traditional music lost a true champion with the passing of Ian D. Green. Dr. Neill Martin, Head of the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, pays tribute to him here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/celtscot/ian-…
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Featuring our very own Dr @LoriWatsonmusic! 👏🏻👏🏻 @LLCatEdinburgh @EU_SSSA
New on @TheScotsman site: Singers, musicians, poets, composers, event organisers, broadcasters and theatre-makers have been recognised in a new list celebrating influential women working in Scottish culture. scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-a… @scotsman_arts @handsupfortrad #IWD24
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Good morning Music Lovers! Considering owning a copy of the beautiful and very imminent album 'One Great Circle' on CD or as a digital download? Today would be an excellent day to act!! fraserfifield.bandcamp.com/a… #BandcampFriday
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Historian and film-maker Hannah Wood presents her film, 'Tales of Borders', exploring how a researcher's roots influence the collection, transmission and analysis of supernatural tales over borders. Here, communities in the Scottish Borders and Nepal connect through stories.
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28 Feb 2024
Happy #ScottishArchivesDay. We've been loving all the content 💕. Last week, we were delighted to host the Ceilidh Club at the Archives for #SeachdainNaGàidhlig24. Watch here: facebook.com/share/v/9GhhjDj… #outreach

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28 Feb 2024
We hold ethnographic images📸ranging from glass slides to born digital. For example, you can view a selection of images from our Robert Atkinson collection here: images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/serv… #ScottishArchivesDay #digital

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