Dear all

 

Please find below, bilingual details of a training event and resource that might be of interest. 

 

Norena Shopland has created a new guide that helps anyone researching LGBT history in historic collections.  While it takes Glamorgan Archives’ collection as its case study, and despite it being called 'Queering Glamorgan' and it's links to Wales, it is a guide which can be used in any English language archive or historic collection around the world. 

A number of guides on researching LGBT history exist, but many provide only summaries of resources available, and rely on modern terminology much of which cannot be used past the mid-twentieth century. In addition, due to the legal status of male homosexuality, existing guides and glossaries have concentrated on the male experience. 

Queering Glamorgan is the first in-depth guide in Wales, the first to provide expanded information on the experience of women, and the first to include material relating to gender diversity in history. This new way of gathering LGBTQ+ material provides a template which can be expanded to any local area to recover from the margins people and events which have not been previously possible to identify. Described as ‘pioneering’ Queering Glamorgan rejects established timelines and set approaches, and aims to recover from the margins excluded histories which will serve only to strengthen Outsider history.    

  

The guide is downloadable here:

https://glamarchives.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Queering-Glamorgan-28Aug2018.pdf

 

And the training session information follows:

 

 

** English follows **

 

Queering the Archives

Cyfle hyfforddiant AM DDIM

 

A hithau’n seiliedig ar ddatblygu ‘Queering Glamorgan: A Research Guide to Sources for the Study of LGBT History’, bydd y sesiwn hon yn dangos i’r cyfranogwyr sut i nodi, a chwilio am, gynnwys lesbiaidd, hoyw, deurywiol a thrawsryweddol  (LGBT) mewn deunydd hanesyddol.

 

Erbyn diwedd y cwrs bydd cyfranogwyr yn meddu ar ddealltwriaeth o’r iaith gymhleth a ddefnyddir i nodi pobl a digwyddiadau LGBT yn y cofnod archifol, a sut i roi cyhoeddusrwydd i’r cynnwys hwnnw.  Byddant yn gallu sefydlu projectau ymchwil yn eu sefydliadau eu hunain a goruchwylio gwirfoddolwyr/staff sy’n cyflawni projectau i nodi cynnwys LGBT.

 

Bydd yr hyfforddiant yn cael ei arwain gan Norena Shopland, Ymchwilydd LGBT. Gwelwch isod am raglen llawn.

 

Lleoliad: Archifau Morgannwg

Dyddiad: Dydd Iau 14 Chwefror 2019

 

Lleoliad: Amgueddfa Wrecsam

Dyddiad: Dydd Iau 21 Chwefror 2019

 

I gadw lle cysylltwch ag Archifau Morgannwg:

Ebost: [log in to unmask]

Ffôn: 029 2087 2299

 

Rhaglen

 

10.00: Cyrraedd a lluniaeth

 

10.30: Sesiwn 1

 

Nodau:

 

·       Gweld ba wybodaeth sydd gan y cyfranogwyr yn barod a phwysleisio’r gwahaniaeth rhwng cyfeiriadedd rhywiol a hunaniaeth rhywedd

·       Galluogi cyfranogwyr i ystyried sut yr oedd pobl LGBT yn byw heb ddefnyddio syniadau/terminoleg modern

 

11.30: Egwyl

 

11.50: Sesiwn 2

 

Nod:

 

·       Gwneud cyfranogwyr yn gyfarwydd â chategorïau hanesyddol gwahanol, i’w galluogi i ddeall yr anhawster gyda llawer o’r derminoleg ac osgoi defnyddio enghreifftiau a all fod yn anghywir

 

13.00: Cinio

 

14.00: Sesiwn 3

 

·       Nodi ba gategorïau o ddeunydd hanesyddol y gellid eu defnyddio i chwilio am gynnwys LGBT

·       Dangos sut y gall cyfranogwyr baratoi rhywbeth tebyg i ganllaw ‘Queering Glamorgan’ eu hunain

 

15.00: Cwestiynau a thrafodaeth

 

15.30: Cau

 

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Queering the Archives

 

FREE training opportunity

 

Based around the development of ‘Queering Glamorgan: A Research Guide to Sources for the Study of LGBT History’, this session will instruct participants in recognising, and searching for, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) content in historic material.

 

By the end of the course participants will have an understanding of the complex language used to identify LGBT people and events in the archival record, and how to publicise that content.  They will be able to set up research projects in their own institutions and oversee volunteers/staff undertaking projects to identify LGBT content.

 

Training will be facilitated by LGBT Researcher Norena Shopland.  See below for full programme.

 

Venue: Glamorgan Archives

Date: Thursday 14 February 2019

 

Venue: Wrexham Museum

Date: Thursday 21 February 2019

 

To book a place please contact Glamorgan Archives

Email: [log in to unmask]

Tel.: 029 2087 2299

 

Programme

 

10.00: Arrival and refreshments

 

10.30: Session 1

 

Aim:

·       To see what knowledge participants already have and to stress the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity

·       To enable participants to think about how LGBT people lived without using modern ideas/terminology

 

11.30: Comfort break

 

11.50: Session 2

 

Aim:

·       To familiarise participants with certain categories of historic material, to enable them to understand the difficulty with much of the terminology and to avoid using examples which may be incorrect.

 

13.00: Lunch

 

14.00: Session 3

 

Aim:

 

·       Which categories of historic material could be used to search for LGBT content

·       How participants can produce something similar to the ‘Queering Glamorgan’ guide themselves.

 

15.00: Questions and discussion

 

15.30: Close

 

 

Victoria Rogers MA AMA

Rheolwr Amgueddfa  |  Museum Manager 

 

Amgueddfa Stori Caerdydd  |  The Cardiff Story Museum

Yr Hen Lyfrgell  |  The Old Library

Yr Aes  |  The Hayes

Caerdydd  |  Cardiff 

CF10 1BH

 

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