The Scrapbook History Podcast explores the history of scrapbook making in Britain during the twentieth century, hosted by scrapbook scholar @cherishwatton.
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ALT "Other archives might go for the letters from Charles Darwin and we'll go for some bloke’s scrapbooks from the 1950s."
ALT "Definitely keep them because they are amazing records of lives. Do get them into an archive and if an archive says no to them, ask them why. And if they say no, just get in contact with me."
ALT "Anyone should be able to come in and access history that's about themselves."
ALT A quote from Syma Ahmed from the latest episode of The Scrapbook History Podcast: "So I think give yourself that time when you're planning, and also think of the themes that you want, both for your group participants to be working on, or I think have examples there already"
ALT A series of craft tools for making scrapbooks.
ALT Two women holding up pages from their scrapbooks made at Glasgow Women's Library.
ALT A photograph of Syma Ahmed.
ALT "The great thing about scrapbooks is that they use other texts as their alphabet", says @MyLiminality in the latest episode of The Scrapbook History podcast.
ALT "These clippings start to speak collectively to a queer gaze that Morgan develops across his scrapbooks. And I think this gaze is really important and interesting, not least of all if we contextualize it inside of the time in which Morgan was making these scrapbooks."
ALT "Actually, as texts, scrapbooks are really beautiful and worth close reading that we would maybe be more familiar with giving to poetry or prose."
