In the works (forthcoming…)
The canal as a playground
Following on from CanalCraft and working with local sport and leisure groups, we’re exploring the use of the Forth and Clyde Canal for leisure, sport and play over the years, from its decommissioning as a commercial waterway, through its rennovation and into the new millenium. Watch this space!
Recent events
Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Assocation Conference, Edinburgh, 4th-6th September
Eleni presented a paper based on the concepts of liminal spaces, creative practices and belonging.
TEHIC Final Conference, Gothenburg
26th-27th May 2025
We were in Gothenburg on the 25th to the 28th of May, to present the paper “A Boat Called WAWHFL: How Building Boats Helps Communities Tell Their Canal Stories” at the TEHIC (Towards a European Heritage Interpretation Curriculum) Final Conference.
Dougalston Woods Heritage Walk
As part of Local History Month 2025, we offered an interactive guided walk that was an opportunity to engage with the human and non-human heritage of the woods, how they were used and what the woods can reveal to us today. We considered the wildlife and plant life of the woods, and what this can tell us about the history of the land, and how the land is used today, and what the future might hold for the woods. We also explored the history of the Estate, which was owned and extensively reshaped by John Glassford, a prominent Tobacco Lord in the eighteenth century, and how this estate was connected to the Caribbean and the “triangular” trade, and the connection of this landscape to sugar, cotton and enslaved people in the Caribbean and America, and how this trade funded the landscaping of the grounds as a conspicuous display of wealth.
Dougalston Woods Zine available at our shop.