SRA Annual Conference: An arresting day out in Inveraray: prison records and their use in historical research

The Scottish Records Association’s Annual Conference will be held in the Muniments Room at Cherry Park, the eighteenth-century estates offices at Inveraray Castle, on Friday 19 September. The conference will feature formal conference papers in the morning followed by lunch and a guided tour of Inveraray Jail in the afternoon. The focus of the day is prison records and their use in historical research, reflecting current research using prison records, the type and format of the records themselves, and the development, management and custody of these collections.

Programme

11:00   Registration and refreshments

11:20   Welcome and housekeeping

11:25   Chair's introduction

11:30   Dr Dee Hoole, retired academic from the History Department, University of Aberdeen: Aberdeen prison records: nineteenth-century ‘curriculums of crime’

11:55   Jessica Evershed, Outreach and Learning Archivist, and Emma Filshie, Digital Services Archivist, National Records of Scotland: Reluctant portraits: Accessing Victorian prisoner photographs

12:20   Laura Beattie, Caroline Milligan and Mark Mulhern, introduced by Caroline Milligan, RESP Project, University of Edinburgh: Outreach Goes Inside – Heritage Collections and the Scottish Prisons Learning Programme

12:45   Q&A

13:15   Lunch: a sandwich and traybake lunch is available (£7.50 per person: pre-booking essential).

14:30   Guided tour of Inveraray Jail (£12.50 per person: pre-booking essential).

The Scottish Records Association (SRA: https://www.scottishrecordsassociation.org/) was founded in 1977 (Scottish Charity number SC008896) and is concerned with the preservation and use of historical records in Scotland. It provides a forum for users, owners and custodians of records to discuss matters relating to the records, their custody and conservation and research.

The Muniments Room, Argyll Estates Archives, Cherry Park, Inveraray, PA32 8XE,