The Scottish Political Archive
@scotpolarchive
Collects around contemporary Scottish politics, independence + devolution. Based in the Division for History, Heritage & Politics at the University of Stirling.
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Congratulations to our archivist Rosie for her Outstanding Collaborator award at the University of Stirling Festival of Research 2024 Research Culture Awards! 🎉🎉🎉 #SupportingResearch IS @ Uni of Stirling Art Collection, University of Stirling StirlingHistHeritPol Institute for Advanced Studies
Having an excellent time at the Angus Og Symposium University of Glasgow Library chatting all things Ewen Bain and cartoons!
We had a great day at the Angus Og symposium with Highland Archives chatting about the wonderful Ewen Bain cartoons which feature in our Scots Independent archive (spoiler: no Angus but tonnes of wit!) Maybe the best conference merch we've ever seen too? @editor_si1926 StirlingHistHeritPol
In #Stirling this weekend? Last chance to see our 2024 #CultureOnStirCampus exhibition Movement Macrobert Arts Centre celebrating the kinetic energy & joy of movement across our collections: macrobertartscentre.org/news/movement-… Art Collection, University of Stirling Artlink Central Creative Stirling IS @ Uni of Stirling
Tonight's the night! There's still just a few tickets left for our first ever screening of 'An Unusual Period of Unspecified Length' - our story of University of Stirling during the #Covid19 pandemic. Get your (free) tickets while you can! bit.ly/3V5YLCe IS @ Uni of Stirling StirlingHistHeritPol
Adding our thanks too, it was great to see everyone and share the project with you all! The Pandemic Archive is now live! collections.stir.ac.uk/archive-collec…… And many thanks to the wonderful Prof Nina Parish for chairing! StirlingHistHeritPol IS @ Uni of Stirling University of Stirling Alumni #CultureOnStirCampus
It's election time & SPA is, as always, collecting your election ephemera! Please do keep the leaflets coming through your letterbox & post them to us so we can evidence party messaging across the whole of 🏴 All your info: stir.ac.uk/9xl #GE2024 StirlingHistHeritPol
We're particularly keen to evidence political messaging beyond the central belt this #GE2024 - all election ephemera gratefully received, but especially from the further reaches of🏴! Save your leaflets, send them to us! All your info: stir.ac.uk/9xl StirlingHistHeritPol
Heather has also done some amazing work matching up our beautiful original Ewen Bain cartoons to the Scots Independent issues where they were published. You can read about her time as #CultureOnStirCampus intern in our last two blog posts archives.wordpress.stir.ac.uk StirlingHistHeritPol
Did any of you enjoy the #StirlingSummerSessions this week? #DYK that the space was used for an outdoor concert (we think for the first time!) for A Day for Scotland back in 1990? archives.wordpress.stir.ac.uk/2020/06/11/we-… Hasn't changed a bit! Summer Sessions #SummerSessions2024
Folks, it's what you've all been waiting for! Our article, written with @ScotUnhinged, Art Collection, University of Stirling + some fantastic vols from our oral history project, is live! It's part of an utterly wonderful issue chock full of interesting articles - have a read! StirlingHistHeritPol IS @ Uni of Stirling
Time to vote! #GE2024 And once you have, why not send all those election leaflets and flyers you've been getting through your door to us The Scottish Political Archive? All the info you need here: stir.ac.uk/9yg 📷Ballot Boxes being distributed for the 1979 Referendum
Final call 📣📣 Anyone in Scotland with election ephemera - leaflets, pamphlets, promotional material - why not donate it to us so we can evidence political messaging across Scotland? Just let us know your constituency! All info here: stir.ac.uk/9yg StirlingHistHeritPol
Following HAP24 with Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research & The National Archives we're delighted to be giving a talk with @ScotUnhinged & Art Collection, University of Stirling! Come & talk all things oral history & filmmaking - 29th July at 1pm 🎉 Free but book here stir.ac.uk/9yl IS @ Uni of Stirling StirlingHistHeritPol
Look at political campaigns in the Scottish Political Archive, consider what makes them so good - or not good at all - and create your own campaign! Summer course 7th-9th August 2024 15-18yr olds More info: stir.ac.uk/9ym StirlingHistHeritPol IS @ Uni of Stirling Stirling Libraries