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Hello and welcome to ’Gather Round’, the podcast series sharing stories from Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums. Each month we’ll be talking to members of the team about the collection, special exhibitions, the histories of our fascinating venues and tales of Aberdeen – sometimes they might be dark and dramatic, and hopefully always entertaining and informative.
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525 Years in the Pursuit of Truth: A New History of The University of Aberdeen
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From its ancient origins in the 1495 founding of King’s College through to thriving global endeavours in 2020, the University of Aberdeen boasts a historic legacy spanning 525 years of leading and engaging with intellectual currents of the wider world. Yet quatercentenary and quincentennial memorial histories of the University of Aberdeen portray the institution from a regional and national perspective. The Aberdeen University librarian between 1894 and 1926, Peter John Anderson (1853-1926), ...
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In this episode, museum supervisor, Hollie Weatherhead and museum assistant Karen Henderson, tell us about the fascinating history of Provost Skene’s House in Aberdeen including its owners and occupiers starting right at the beginning almost 500 years ago . . .By Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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In this episode, curator Jessica Barrie, talks with local artist Ade Adesina about his artistic practice and his new commission for Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums (AAGM), with support from the Friends of AAGM.By Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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Prejudice and Solidarity Archived Throughout History Project
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In this episode, history curator, Jenny Pape-Carlisle, talks with Four Pillars, LGBT+ Outreach Coordinator Jakub Ivanecky about his work on the PATH (Prejudice and Solidarity Archived Throughout History) Project for the past 2 years, making LGBT+ Heritage and History more accessible.By Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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In this episode, Martin Hall, archivist for Aberdeen City and Shire, talks about the epidemic response in Medieval Aberdeen to the known and unknown diseases including the plague between 1498 and 1549. On the 17 May 1498 the whole population of Aberdeen were gathered at the Castlegate by a premonition or sound of the bell because of what was referr…
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Constructed Narratives: Lennox Dunbar, Ian Howard and Arthur Watson
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In this episode, learning manager Rachel Thi-bbotum-unu-we is joined by Aberdeen born artists Lennox Dunbar and Arthur Watson to talk about our upcoming exhibition ‘Constructed Narratives: Lennox Dunbar, Ian Howard and Arthur Watson’ which features work purchased for the collection early in the artist’s careers, alongside more recent examples by th…
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Today is the 1st of September 2023 and it’s the start of Scottish Archaeology month, so to celebrate, in this episode we have history curators Jenny and Ross talking about ‘Medieval Aberdeen’ and our free ‘Hands-on History’ event at the art gallery on the 16th September. They tell us about their favourite objects from Aberdeen City’s strong medieva…
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In this episode, Ross and Madeline talk about our exhibition ‘View of Aberdeen’, Where they have been talking to people across the city about what Aberdeen means to them. In the exhibition, these views have been shared along with artworks and objects which has inspired them. Together they bring to life the themes of ‘far I bide’ (where I live), ‘ch…
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Trains, travel and days out in the Silver City
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In this episode, museum assistant Karen Henderson talks about the history of transport, travel and days out in Aberdeen, the silver city with golden sands . . .By Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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In this episode, curators Jessica and Morna talk about our exhibition ‘Imagined Landscapes’ curated during the Covid-19 lockdown. It combines artworks from our applied art and fine art collections. They discuss how they wanted to explore the differences and similarities of these collections but also between artist and maker and how they perceive a …
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In this episode, Deirdre and Rachel talk about our fascinating new exhibition ‘Where Ideas Are Born’. This show combines the work of over 20 photographers from the celebrated Magnum Photos agency, including Inge Morath, Eve Arnold and Robert Capa. Around 70 photo portraits of internationally renowned artists capture the moment in their studios, suc…
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In this episode we celebrate International Women’s Day with curators Jenny Pape-Carlisle and Jessica Barrie as they talk about their spotlight display ‘A Still Life?’By Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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Svetlana Panova, Curator and project co-ordinator of the exhibition, chats with Artist Cecilia Charlton and Curator Morna Annandale. They talk about Cecilia’s work along with themes and thoughts on how it was put together.By Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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In this festive episode, Karen Henderson, Museum Assistant at Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums talks about Aberdeen’s poorhouses at Christmas, inspired by Provost Skene’s House.By Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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Jenny Pape-Carlisle and Bruce Mann talk about a rare Pictish Stone found in the River Don just outside of Dyce and is now in our collection.By Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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Martin Hall, Archivist for Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives, tells us about the Aberdeen Witch Trials of 1597.By Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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Dr Adrián Maldonado and Dr Tim Carlisle discuss what makes The Galloway Hoard so unique. Tim's blog: Building Midgard (wordpress.com)By Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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The Book of Deer Project: Archaeological Dig
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In this episode, which was recorded ‘in the field’ at the dig site, listen in as Ali Cameron, Alice Jaspars and volunteers of Cameron Archaeology, discuss some of the fantastic finds they have discovered during the dig to find the site of the monastery of Deer, where the Gaelic notes refer to.By Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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In this episode, which we’ve recorded during Scottish Archaeology Month, listen in as Anne Simpson and Derek Jennings of the Book of Deer project reflect on this year’s celebration of the Book of Deer, a little book that tells a lot.By Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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Grace McIntosh: The Life of a Victorian Criminal
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The story of 19th century Aberdeen criminal Grace McIntosh, told by Phil Astley and Dr Dee Hoole.By Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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525 Years of Collecting and Care: The libraries, archives and museums of the University of Aberdeen
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For 525 years, the historic libraries, archives and museum of the University of Aberdeen have been enriched by donations, gifts and acquisitions leading to collections which are now of international significance. As a curator of that historic material, Jane Pirie identifies key donors and figures involved in the care and formation of collections fr…
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Lord Strathcona, Canada, and the University of Aberdeen, 1820-1906
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This podcast focuses on the career of one of the University’s major benefactors at the turn of the twentieth Century, its Forres-born Chancellor Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona from 1897. It traces his connection to the University and then tracks back, looking at how he acquired wealth and prestige at the heart of the transition in British North Amer…
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Economics at Aberdeen: The Legacy of Sir Thomas Jaffrey, Bt (1855-1953)
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In this year of the 525th anniversary of the University of Aberdeen, its Department of Economics is also celebrating an anniversary – the centenary of the Jaffrey Chair in Political Economy. This podcast by Economics Professor Keith Bender highlights the life of Sir Thomas Jaffrey Bt, the early 20th century Aberdonian banker and philanthropist who …
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The Influence of Professor Herbert J.C. Grierson, 1866-1960
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Cairns Craig, Glucksman Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies, recounts the influence of the first holder of the chair in English Literature at Aberdeen University, Professor H.J.C. Grierson. Grierson was closely involved with major poets of the early twentieth century, such as W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot, because of the influence of his edition of…
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James Ramsay (1733-1789): Scottish Abolitionism in the Anglo-Atlantic World
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This podcast explores the life and influence of the Rev. James Ramsay, an Anglican priest, ship’s surgeon, and pioneering abolitionist who was educated at King’s College between 1749 and 1753. Ramsay’s anti-slavery convictions were born out of the experience of fifteen years as a preacher and medical attendant to the enslaved population of the isla…
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James Beattie (1735-1803): Philosopher and Poet
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In 1773 James Beattie, professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic at Marischal College, Aberdeen, visited London to petition (successfully) for a royal pension on the back of his sudden fame as author of An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, In Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism (1770), an attack on the ‘infidelity’ of the times, and t…
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Thomas Reid (1710-1796): The Wise Club in the Aberdeen Enlightenment
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The intellectual history of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, known as the ‘Wise Club’ after its founding in 1758, maps onto the institutional history of King’s and Marischal colleges in the eighteenth century. The proceedings of philosophical and literary societies were woven into the fabric of eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment intellect…
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Duncan Liddel (1561-1613): Medicine and Mathematics during Northern Europe's Age of Confessionalisation
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The endowment of a chair in Mathematics in 1613 was one of Duncan Liddel's most important legacies for Marischal College. After a life of study in Poland and Northern Germany, and a career of over ten years at one of Germany's famous Protestant reform universities in Helmstedt, under the patronage of Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Liddel returne…
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The Local Rise and International Role of Marischal College, 1593-1860
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From its inception the purpose of Marischal College is fascinating. Most historical discussion has centred on its being a more seriously ‘Protestant’ alternative to the Episcopal (by which many mean crypto-Catholic) King’s College in Old Aberdeen. Unfortunately, this does not hold up to scrutiny. Founded as a civic university that catered to the so…
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Before and after Bishop Elphinstone: Creativity and learning in medieval and renaissance Aberdeen
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King’s College has a prehistory. Dr Jackson Armstrong (Senior Lecturer in History, University of Aberdeen) sheds new light on the founding of King’s College as a kingdom-building endeavour that underscored Scottish engagement with the age of the renaissance. This involved the tenure of Archdeacon John Barbour at the medieval cathedral of St Machar’…
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