Advisors, Advocates & Activists: A Century and more of Social Work in Edinburgh. A Wellcome Trust funded project at Edinburgh University Archives.
Edinburgh, Scotland
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The project will catalogue: #UoE SW Dept. records including a 1960s survey of #housing in N. Edinburgh & a 1940s #mentalhealth survey of Dumfriesshire; papers of Tom Burns, Prof. of #sociology; papers of John Spencer, Prof. of #socialadmin & #criminology #Toronto #Bristol #LSE
After two years this project has now ended. Thanks to everyone who has followed and shared its progress.
Information and resources are still accessible on the project website: libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/soc…
Wishing all our followers a happy and healthy 2021 when it comes!
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Looking for some inspiration for the SMHAF 2021 writing competition? The 1940s mental health survey of Dumfriesshire shows a very narrow definition of "normal". The catalogue can be viewed here: archives.collections.ed.ac.u…
#mentalhealth
"She is looking very well and seemed quite pleased with life!".
Note by course director Nora Milnes on the progress of a recent Social Study graduate now working with employees at the Robertson Shredded #Marmalade factory. £250 a year and sometimes the whole of Saturday off!
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Edinburgh’s 1919 Act Housing, Part I: ‘Healthy Houses for the People is the Best Public Health Insurance’ municipaldreams.wordpress.co…
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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#mentalhealth
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SMHAF, led by @mentalhealth, will return from 3-23 May 2021 and explore the theme of 'Normality?'.
Find out more about the festival, the theme & the different ways you can get involved here:
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"I’m going concentrate on languages this winter as I’d very much like to go and do some kind of reconstruction in Europe after the war"
Social Study graduate Margaret Monkley to course director Nora Milnes on her #plans beyond missionary work in Newfoundland
#ExploreYourArchive
Read about Margaret and other Social Study students in our new online exhibition here:
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#exhibition
#Students
"Go and talk to Seebohm Rowntree", advice from Charles Booth to Miss McKnight of the Charity Organisation Society in this 1906 letter from the #SocialWork archive.
#exploreyourarchive #communication
"Go and talk to Seebohm Rowntree", advice from Charles Booth to Miss McKnight of the Charity Organisation Society in this 1906 letter from the #SocialWork archive.
#exploreyourarchive week starts today with #communication
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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Interesting facebook live at 1pm today from Edinburgh City Archives on the city's Inch #Housing Scheme fb.me/e/QP9rX8C5 Join Bill Cook, a first generation Incher and committee member of the Inch Community Association, as he explores the formation of the Inch Housing Scheme
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Important findings then and now...
Work related #anxiety is nothing new. These entries in the mental health survey from 80 years ago illustrate the impact the #workplace can have on physical and #mentalhealth. In particular working in mines often triggered traumatic experiences for men who had served in the #war.
Work related #anxiety is nothing new. These entries in the mental health survey from 80 years ago illustrate the impact the #workplace can have on physical and #mentalhealth. In particular working in mines often triggered traumatic experiences for men who had served in the #war.
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I love it: "go and talk to Seebohm Rowntree". It fits too: Rowntree's study of York was intensive, in contrast with Charles Booth's extensive study of London: @rowntreesoc
Back in the main library yesterday to re-shelve a few conserved items. Delighted to see this again, removed from its cracked glass frame and cleaned - a letter from social reformer Charles Booth, dated 1906, to Miss McKnight, Secretary of Glasgow Charity Organisation Society.
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What treasure you keep unearthing, Jenny!
And this from one of the last boxes struck a chord today - from Immigration and the Race Relations published 50 years ago by the Runnymede Trust.
#Immigrants
#ImmigrationMatters
#immigration
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'In the 1950s and 1960s planning opinion favoured high-rise flats ... These blocks today are almost universally condemned by the same planners'. This week's new post looks at the history of #Preston's post-war council housing:
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Thanks to the incredibly important work done by @Uncover_ED over the last years we are now also able to present the UncoverEd walking tour on @curiousedi! @UoE_STIS @uoessps @UoE_LTW @EdinburghUni @Edinburgh_CC #Edinburgh curiousedinburgh.org/uncover…
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Cowcaddens Day nursery , 1922
Another view of the mother being interviewed by health worker, but with this image focussed on the health worker. Glasgow City Archives Ref: P5034
ALT Cowcaddens Day nursery , 1922 Another view of the mother being interviewed by health worker, but with this image focussed on the health worker. Glasgow City Archives Ref: P5034