Tell us About Your Project

If you are working on an oral history project or planning to, why not tell us. It may be that others are working in the same area and that you could share resources or information.

Projects being carried out locally and in the rest of Scotland

Aberdeen City

Grampian Police Force Museum - Retired Officers' Oral History Project - this is a private project recording the working lives of police officers in Aberdeen City and County forces. This will coincide with the launch of the new Force Museum web site. I hope to allow researchers access to the resulting archive in the future, in my capacity as Force Curator.

Aberdeenshire/ Banffshire

Kirkburn Mill Oral History Project - currently being carried out by the Family History Society of Buchan in Peterhead: contact Anne Allan, or email: administrator@fhsb.org.uk

Ballater & Crathie Oral History Project - currently being carried out by the Ballater and Crathie Community Council: Contact Jane Angus, Ballater - 013397 56260

Logie Coldstone Reminiscence Project - Contact Joyce Lovie, Logie Coldstone - jjlovie2@tiscali.co.uk

Banchory Reminiscence Project - in early stages from Banchory Heritage Society, contact: banchoryheritage@aol.com or see website for events

Portsoy Traditional Boat festival - another fledgling project based around the newly-restored Portsoy Salmon Bothy. See website

Edinburgh

Living Memory Association - carrying out oral history & reminiscence work in Edinburgh, see website, which has a photographic archive, access to newsletters and events or email: miles@livingmemory.org.uk

Glasgow

Pantomime in Scotland: 'Your other national theatre' - in early stages, backed by University of Glasgow, funded by AHRC, contact Paul Maloney, p.maloney@tfts.arts.gla.ac.uk or see website

Highlands & Islands

UHI Centre for History: Based in Inverness, there are three current oral history projects here

Aluminium in the Highlands 1895-2007

Forestry Commission Oral History

Glendoe Hydro Oral History

Sabhal Mor Ostaig:

Tobar an Dualchais/ Kist o Riches

Sabhal Mor Ostaig (UHI) is behind the long-running Tobar an Dualchais/ Kist o Riches project to digitise both Gaelic and Scots sound recordings. Beginning with the pilot Pròiseact Thiriodh which recorded material from the island of Tiree, Tobar an Dualchais is continuing with material from the Campbell of Canna collection, and material from both the BBC and the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh, including that collected by Hamish Henderson and Calum MacLean.

Contact: dualchas@smo.uhi.ac.uk or go to website for office addresses