Scottish Records Association Conference: The Body as Evidence

The Scottish Records Association Conference is being held in Perth this year on Thursday, 23rd:

Conference autumn 2023: The Body as Evidence
Soutar Theatre, A K Bell Library, Perth, Thursday 23 November 2023

The topic of the next Scottish Records Association's conference will be ‘The Body as Evidence’ and the Association invites proposals for presentations. For more details see the call for papers.

Conference spring 2023

On the Write Track: making sense of older handwriting

The spring 2023 conference of the Scottish Records Association took place on Friday 24 February and was held in conjunction with National Records of Scotland.

The venue was New Register House in Edinburgh. At the morning session a series of talks discussed advances in online palaeography tuition and how Artificial Intelligence can help transcribe manuscripts.

During the afternoon there was an open event where researchers could bring documents they were having problems reading or understanding, to get advice from experienced palaeographers from academic institutions and archives. Also present were societies who publish original sources of Scottish history, showing how their publications can help researchers understand similar records, and how to access other useful sources. There was also a small display of original records from the National Records of Scotland’s archives related to the societies’ publications.

The conference marked the launch of the new edition of ‘Scottish Handwriting 1500-1700: a self-help pack’, published jointly by the Scottish Records Association and National Records of Scotland.

For further details visit https://www.scottishrecordsassociation.org/conference 

(With thanks to Kirsty Wilkinson) 

Chris 

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