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Tag: WW2

Puzzles and partings: thinking about emotions in archival description

An old airmail envelope with a blue banner across the top that says 'Xmas Greetings by air mail to' and the address 'Miss Jean Watson, Hamilton Road, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland.' Pic credit: Glasgow University Archives and Special Collections: ASC 013 A/61: Airmail Xmas Card (1942)
January 27, 2025 ~ Lucy Janes ~ Leave a comment

Where do feelings fit into an archive catalogue? I reflected on this when cataloguing a collection collection of letters from a young Edwin Morgan to his student girlfriend Jean Watson.

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Arlington Baths Club History Group

The people and past of a Victorian swimming pool and Turkish baths in Glasgow.

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Gossips by Virginia Lee Burton, c1943. Displayed at the Artist Textiles – Picasso to Warhol exhibition at New Lanark, 2018

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