Movement, dance, physical education and gymnastics archives at University of Edinburgh and Fergusson Gallery, Perth & Kinross. Funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined September 2017
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Burns Night Tonight. Margaret Morris Dancer's performing to the Skye Boat Song at Ted Shawn's Theatre, in Jacob's Pillow, U.S.A in 1954, from the book, Margaret Morris, Creation in Dance and Life, written by Margaret herself.
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We are so excited to be working with the @britgolfmuseum on this exciting @artfund project that will really look at how we can improve museum experiences for #neurodiverse people. bdaily.co.uk/articles/2021/0…
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Wonderful to see #SeaShanties taking social media by storm at the moment. On @TobarDualchais you can hear recordings from The People's Festival Ceilidh of 1953, where Ewan MacColl described the tradition of Shanties and performed some examples. SA1953.242 tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/se…
ALT Image from Internet Archive Flickr of a ship on a rough sea, tilting to the right https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14577069647/
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More exciting news about our @WHN_WM and @BritSportHisSoc conf. #WomenInSport, Nov. 6 2021. The keynote address ‘“All work and no play makes a dull wife and a tired mother”: Women and Sport in SWW Britain’ will be delivered by @RafNicholson & @matthew_mtaylor
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Following the announcement by the Scottish Government of a national lockdown from 5th January 2021, the CRC has moved to a remote-only service to support essential teaching and research activities ed.ac.uk/is/crc
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Instead of streaming the same old "Nutcrackers" this year, we'd recommend exploring something outside of the usual male-choreographed, big city productions...
Here's a selection of programs that might give you your women in dance fix this December!
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Lori Watson plays "Banks of Spey" on William Marshall's fiddle (MIMEd 03... youtu.be/AeDi-tvPgs0 via @YouTube – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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Lori Watson plays Tain in the Rain on a Stroh violin (MIMEd 4533) from c... youtu.be/mlyV_aInwlA via @YouTube – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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"The Left-handed fiddler" by James Scott Skinner. Lori Watson on a violi... youtu.be/zpThLiza7QI via @YouTube – at Edinburgh, Scotland
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #Star Movement / Dance pioneer, Margaret Morris (1891-1980) aged 8, in theatre costume as ‘Twinkle Star’ from pantomime ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, at Plymouth by Ben Greet Company, 1899-1900 #Archives pics courtesy @MMorrisMovement @CPKMuseums @ARAScot
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #snow photo illustrating ski-ing exercises for Margaret Morris & Hans Falkner’s ‘Ski-ing Exercises’ 1st published 1934. #Archives pic courtesy @MMorrisMovement (Ref:2010.718.4.8.2.1) @sportinghistory @CRC_EdUni @EdUniLibraries @CPKMuseums @ilikeoldbooks
#ExploreYourArchive #Health Margaret Morris founder of a system of physical movement, advocate of the profound effects of movement on health, deeply inspired by Art. Accomplished artist. #Archives Pics courtesy @MMorrisMovement (Ref: 2010.718.4.8.2.2) @CPKMuseums @ScotsArchives
#ExploreYourArchive dance-#science pioneer, qualified physio (1930) Margaret Morris developed Margaret Morris Movement Method - correct breathing/posture were critical to stamina/range of movement/health/vitality. #archives pics courtesy @MMorrisMovement 🙏 (Ref: 2010.718.4.8.2)
#ExploreYourArchive Replacing/updating old #archives #labels today, & sneaking a peek 🧐 at the thousands of press cuttings in the #MargaretMorris archives as we work @CPKMuseums @CRC_EdUni @ARAScot @ScotsArchives @MMorrisMovement @sportinghistory @wtimmons (Ref:2010.718.7.5.3)
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The project's latest blogpost is now live and explores the contents of a survey of the mental health of the population of Dumfriesshire in the Scottish Borders in the late 1940s.
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This year is the centenary of the Scottish and British Associations of Social Workers. Our new online exhibition highlights some of the previous Social Study students at Edinburgh University:
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A reminder that the call for papers is open for the #DCDC21 Conference. We are especially interested in hearing from early-career #academics and #researchers who have new and innovative ideas for this year’s conference. #Collections #HistDay20 Learn more bit.ly/3lPx50u
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Another productive, socially distanced, masked up, sanitised afternoon, numbering up the #MargaretMorris #archives @CPKMuseums Fergusson Gallery & Perth looking awfully bonny on the walk home @CRC_EdUni @ARAScot @ScotsArchives @ilikeoldbooks @MMorrisMovement @sportinghistory
No matter how thoroughly progress is tracked/triple checked - numbering up newly catalogued collections, you *ALWAYS* discover that one box that you somehow missed? 🤦🏻♀️ 2 days = +128 new descriptions 🤯🥵#Archives @CRC_EdUni @ScotsArchives @ARAScot @ilikeoldbooks @RachelHosker1
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Join us on 10 December for a virtual behind-the-scenes look at the geological collection of Sir Charles Lyell and his connection with #Darwin and #climatechange research.
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