Fieldwork Internship Journey Written by Katie Shepherd As the RESP continue to add to their collection of oral history archival material, Ailsa and I were commissioned as fieldwork interns to conduct interviews with …Continue reading →

Meet the RESP Fieldwork Interns Written by: Katie Shepherd, RESP Fieldwork Intern Hello world! I’m Katie, a Masters student at the University of Edinburgh studying Musicology. In collaboration with Ailsa, a final-year undergraduate student in Ethnology, …Continue reading →

Celebrating a new batch of recordings just added to the RESP website For this blog post, which marks the most recent upload of recordings onto the RESP Archive website, we are delighted to hear from Mark Mulhern, Senior Research Fellow with the …Continue reading →

Collecting in East Lothian TAGS: 20th century archives | cultural history | social history We are always encouraging people to get involved with our Project, whether as a volunteer fieldworker or transcriber, or as a willing interviewee.  As well as valuing the oral history …Continue reading →

Royal Reflections from the RESP Archive TAGS: 20th century archives | cultural history | Manchester ship canal | Queen Elizabeth II | Queen Victoria | Scotland | social history This weekend sees the culmination of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth, and marks her 70th anniversary as monarch. This event provides us with an opportunity to …Continue reading →

The Man who Went to the Moon and the Woman who Helped Bring him to Langholm: A Tale of Two Leaps TAGS: 20th century archives | cultural history | moon landing | social history I’ve now been working with the EERC Regional Ethnology of Scotland Study since 2011 and for the CRC-RESP Archive Project since 2018.  My jobs have allowed me to be involved …Continue reading →