Scottish Records Association 

The Scottish Records Association is pleased to partner the Centre for Scottish Culture at the University of Dundee in a conference on the subject of the use of Scottish archives to uncover stories usually obscured by the records: hidden histories.

The Venue

The conference will take place in the Dalhousie Building, 75 Old Hawkhill, Dundee, DD1 5EN. It is about 15-20 minutes’ walk from Dundee railway station (via South Tay Street and Old Hawkshill Road).

Programme

09:45-10:30 Registration (tea, coffee and refreshments will be served)

10:30-11:30 Panel 1: Mental Health in the Archives

• Welcome by Professor Graeme Morton, The Centre for Scottish Culture, University of Dundee
• Caroline Brown and Jacqueline Eccles
  Redressing the balance in archives; using asylum records to give voice to the under-represented
• Jessica Secmezoy-Urquhart
  The Fool Is Not Found Wanting In The Household Of The King Of Scots: the hidden history of Renaissance natural fools in the Lord High Treasurer Accounts of Scotland

11:30-11:40 Comfort break

11:40-12:35 Panel 2: Silence and Gender in the Archives

• Louise Heren
  Sex in the City Why early-20th century sexual violence was an urban working-class issue
• Marian Pallister
  Unlocking the Silence: giving Grace a voice (the letters of Lady Grace Campbell)

12:35-13:50 Lunch
(The AGM of the Scottish Records Association begins promptly at 12:40)

13:50-14:45 Panel 3: Archival Gaps and Silences - (non)acquisition and failure to catalogue

• Margaret McKenzie and Peter E Ross
  Gypsy/Travellers in Scotland: a hidden community, a hidden history
• Jane Brown
  Hidden in Plain Sight: a case closeted in the archive; how legacy finding aids conceal LGBT histories, and why this matters

14:45-15:20 Break for tea and coffee

15:20-16:20 Panel 4: Myths, Narratives and Archives – inclusion and exclusion from archives and stories

• Gordon J Barclay and Louise Heren
  The Battle for George Square, 1919: hidden in plain sight
• Rachel Hosker
  Who Owns History?

Concluding remarks - Professor Chris Whatley, Chair of the Scottish Records Association