LEARNING FROM HISTORY
– The next stage of the Angus Macleod Archive Project
The Book Trust is pleased to announce that a new project, entitled Learning from History, will enable the Angus Macleod Archive to remain open to the public and the annual memorial lecture in honour of Angus Macleod to continue during 2008.
Under the project, a Gaelic teacher (Kenny Smith) has been funded by Comhairle nan Eilean Siar to lead a research project which will consider how best material from the Angus Macleod Archive (and also Hebridean Connections and the Callicvol Collection) can be worked up and presented for use in schools. This fulfils a long-standing objective of the Book Trust to encourage greater use of local historical material for education. The Book Trust will be funding a part-time Archive Assistant post based at the Ravenspoint Centre, Kershader, South Lochs, to help with the project, and also to oversee the storage of Book Trust publications, deal with orders for publications, and monitor sales.
The Book Trust’s contribution to the project is being assisted in part by grants from the Hugh Fraser Foundation (£2,000) and the Gatliff Trust (£1,000), to whom we are most grateful. The remainder of the cost (some £10,000) is being funded by the Book Trust from its own resources, and an appeal is being launched to give Book Trust members and others who wish to contribute to this important initiative the opportunity to do so. For further details, please contact Alayne Barton on 01851 820946, email alayne@theislandsbooktrust.com , or make a donation by credit card using the PayPal facility on this website.
If funding is forthcoming from the higher education sector, the project could also be extended to Colleges and Universities.
The Book Trust hopes that, if the research phase of the project in 2008 is successful, a further project might follow, concentrating on the production of educational resources for use in schools.
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