Lead Partner: Glasgow City Council
Partners: Renfrewshire Museums, East Renfrewshire Council, North Lanarkshire Council Museums Service, East Dunbartonshire Museums, South Lanarkshire Council, Inverclyde Council Museums Service, West Dunbartonshire Council.
This project is formalising and quantifying existing knowledge and resources to create a consistent Local History and Archaeology Strategy for the West of Scotland. This is the first project in the UK to address local history in terms of a combined approach to archaeology, the built environment, archives, museums collections, library collections and evidence for landscape history.
The local authorities in the West of Scotland have extremely rich resources which can be drawn on. These include archives, museum objects, books and pamphlets, the built environment, below-ground archaeology, parks and gardens and graveyards.
The project will provide a listing of resources across the partnership area to provide a starting point for anyone wishing to investigate their local community. The research will provide a context and starting point for developing educational resources and recommendations for how collections might be managed in the future.
During 2006, the project team organised and ran a very successful seminar series at the Burrell. Guest speakers covered a varied range of topics relating to the archaeology and history of the partnership area, and the afternoon discussion sessions were informative and wide ranging.
This year, the project team will continue their work on resource assessments for the partnership area. So far (March 2007), project staff have surveyed local authority museum and archive collections held by East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire. Work is currently underway in Glasgow, with East Dunbartonshire and South Lanrkshire due to be finished by the end of the year. Work is also in progress to develop gazetteers covering sites, monuments and listed buildings.
The results of all this work will be published in 2008 in a series of volumes dealing with heritage in each of the partnership local authorities. A separate volume of specially commissioned essays will discuss the archaeology and history of the region as a whole.
Contact: Isobel McDonald
T: 0141 276 9327
E: [email protected]
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See also the project web page at
