using Social Media as a tool for advocacy | March SHSMG Event

Want to know how to harness the power of social media to promote advocacy work? For our March event, we’ll be hearing from Malini Chakrabarty, a freelance designer and Communications Lead at Built Environment Forum Scotland. With a passion for anti-racism and inclusivity, Malini’s comprehensive background spans public engagement, arts, human rights, media, and heritage. Malini will […]

Go For It!

Julie Devenney, social media officer for ARAScotland & Archive Hour writes about ArchiveHour for SHSMG in the latest blog. “Why don’t you set it up?” said an archivist friend to me, back in May, after I’d been grumbling again that there was a @museumhour and an @ancestryhour but no @archivehour! “Why don’t I?!” I had not […]

Heritage Social Media Fandom

Stephenie McGucken is a PhD candidate & tutor at the University of Edinburgh in the History of Art. Her research interests include the uses of heritage in film, and draws on her experiences with various fandoms to help form research questions. She also runs the social media for the Edinburgh Medieval Pigment Project. Everyone […]

The Scottish History Network and Social Media

The Scottish History Network was created last year to help share knowledge and develop connections throughout the field of Scottish history. One of their co-founders, Fraser Raeburn, discusses how social media has enabled their work: In late 2015, my colleague Laura Harrison and I were grumbling about how organised Irish historians are. They always seemed […]

ScotlandsPlaces Social Media Successes

Kim Beasley is the ScotlandsPlaces Project Officer. Kim has very kindly written about her social media successes for the third SHSMG blog. What do a nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey record and a seventeenth-century map have in common? Well, thanks to social media they have all been viewed by thousands of people and are some of ScotlandsPlaces […]

Empowering young people to talk about history in their own voice

Núria Ruiz is the Digital Development Officer at YouthLink Scotland, where she leads on digital media for a number of national youth work projects. Núria writes for SHSMG in our second blog. What has youth work got to do with social media for museums? Quite a bit, as it goes. For the last six months, I’ve been […]