Glasgow Sunflowers Baseball Club
Glasgow Sunflowers Baseball Club
Over the course of six months, we worked with the Glasgow Sunflowers Baseball Club, a baseball team for women, non-binary and all trans people based in Glasgow's southside. The club wanted to examine approaches to heritage ownership and presentation and to consider how members might contribute to established heritage spaces through their own methods of communication.
We began with discussions exploring how ideas like identity, diversity and equality are represented by and intersect with heritage. We then visited LGBTQ+ and Glasgow-focused archives at the National Library of Scotland, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre and Historic Environment Scotland and met with curators and archivists to consider these themes.
It was decided that a collaborative scrapbook would be made to capture the experiences and hopes of the Glasgow Sunflowers in 2024. Contributions were gathered from the wider club and the dedicated heritage group put together the inaugural Sunflowers Scrapbook. Excitingly, the scrapbook will be accessioned into the Mitchell Library Glasgow City Archives.
Recently, members of the Glasgow Sunflowers heritage group, alongside members of the Our Heritage, Our Future team, took part in digitisation training, learning how to copy archive material from a museum professional. The team members are now using these skills to create a digital copy of the scrapbook ahead of the physical book entering the Mitchell collections.
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Over the past year, members of the Glasgow Sunflowers Baseball Club have been working with us through the Our Heritage, Our Future programme to create a scrapbook capturing the ethos of the club and its participants and showcasing how identify, sport and heritage intersect.
The scrapbook will be entered into national archives to ensure community voices are part of our national heritage collections.
This #NationalInnovationWeek we reflect on the support we have given communities to embrace digital technologies to preserve and record the past, to explore the opportunities for creating new heritage legacies and to share tools through training to learn from our past.
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