IanTheArchivist

I live in Glasgow. On Wikipedia, I am interested in creating/editing information on Women Activists, Suffragists and Suffragettes from Govan, Glasgow and Scotland.

I attended Hillhead High School and am a graduate of Strathclyde University. I work as a Volunteer Archivist in Govan High School. I am a former member of Govan's Hidden Histories https://govanshiddenhistories.wordpress.com/ and Protests and Suffragettes https://www.facebook.com/ProtestsandSuffragettes

I have been collaborating with User:Kaybeesquared on a number of Wikipedia articles; first;y on suffragists and suffragettes, including Amy Sanderson and Mary Morris, and hope we can continue to work successfully together. More recently, we have been working together on women connected with the Scottish Women's Hospital for Foreign Service, including adding a number of names and additional information to that organisation's Wikipedia article.

I have been a member of the Scottish Library Association and its successor organisation, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals,(CILIP) for many years, and am an Honorary Member of CILIP in Scotland. I have been very interested in Information literacy for a number of years, and have worked with many organisations to challenge assumptions made about the skills pupils and students are assumed to have.

I worked with Dr Joihn Crawford of Glasgow Caledonian University on the Scottish Information Literacy Project http://www.therightinformation.org/archive-silp/ and more recently as a founder member of "The Right Information" http://www.therightinformation.org/home/.

Glasgow's Black History

Last year, I read the book "Who belongs to Glasgow" about the city's ethnic mimorities, and was disappointed to see how little there was on Glasgow's Black History. When I looked into the few pages more closely, I discovred that a lot of the names and information were quite inaccurate, Since then, I have been intensively studying the matter. In collaboration with Kaybeesquared, I recently added this related article to Wikipedia Jessie M. Soga. I also had a successful Zoom meeting with the Director of the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/slavery/ Peggy Brunache and Professor Bill Cushley, the co-ordinator of the Glasgow University/University of the West Indies Partnership Programme' with a view to me providing help and research topics for graduate students from the latter institution.

Hobbies

I enjoy reading, and am a member of the Hillhead Library Book Group in Glasgow. Prior to Covid, I also enjoyed travelling; having visited well over 100 countries. I have visited countries beginning with every letter of the alphabet for which there is a country (none start with the letter "X" )apart from Qatar, and i hope to visit there to complete my "bucket list"

My example citation

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