To celebrate International Women’s Day, myself and two our fantastic volunteers – Hannah Ellul and Alice Andrews – set up a little exhibition in Dundee Central Library. The exhibition featured a series of posters created by the Poster-Film Collective in 1983. The Poster-Film Collective was established when a group of students and ex-staff artists, photographers [...]
This time last year, we were still reeling after a flood of water poured down from the floors above us at 81 Parnie Street. I think it’s fair to say it was an inauspicious start to a year that was as frustrating as it was… challenging. A lot has changed over the course of 2010. [...]
Last weekend I attended the London Metropolitan Archive’s 8th Annual LGBT Archives and History conference. Despite changes to the programme due to the snowy weather, it was a full and stimulating day. This year the conference was entitled: ‘Young Hearts Run Free’ and the theme was LGBT youth work. First we heard about HLF funding [...]
A few weeks ago I ran a workshop entitled ‘Orlando’s Sisters’. During it we had a discussion about Vita Sackville-West, the inspiration behind Woolf’s Orlando, and also Radclyffe Hall, whose semi-autobiographical Well of Loneliness was banned in 1928 – the same year in which Orlando: A Biography was published. The library holds one of these [...]
