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Miscellany Eight [Stair Society vol. 67] , 2020

Andrew R. C. Simpson and Jackson W. Armstrong, “The Roll of the Burgh Courts of Aberdeen, August–... more Andrew R. C. Simpson and Jackson W. Armstrong, “The Roll of the Burgh Courts of Aberdeen, August–October 1317”, in A. M. Godfrey (ed.), Miscellany Eight [Stair Society vol. 67] (Edinburgh, 2020), pp. 57–93

Miscellany Eight [Stair Society vol. 67] , 2020

The Stair Society under Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND and may be freely shared for non-com... more The Stair Society under Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND and may be freely shared for non-commercial purposes so long as the creators are credited.

This article arises from the Bennachie Landscapes Project, a collaboration between the Bailies of... more This article arises from the Bennachie Landscapes Project, a collaboration between the Bailies of Bennachie and staff from the University of Aberdeen. It examines the interaction of archival and archaeological investigations by community researchers concerned especially with the Bennachie 'Colony', a settlement of crofters on the hill of Bennachie (located near to Inverurie, Aberdeenshire) in the nineteenth century. An exercise partly in community archives, community archaeology, social history and historical archaeology, this project has sought to explore the everyday lives of the Bennachie 'colonists', in order to understand more closely their social and economic experiences and context. In doing so, archival and archaeological research methods have come together in a direct way which has raised new questions about life in the Colony. The project demonstrates a clear example of how textual and non-textual records may work together, in what might be described as an exercise in 'community archives-archaeology'.

In this paper we explore the intertwined issues of improvement and community relations within the... more In this paper we explore the intertwined issues of improvement and community relations within the context of the Colony site, a nineteenth-century informal settlement in Scotland best known through caricatures of the poor and stereotypes of rural living. Drawing on a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research framework, a collaborative initiative involving academics and community researchers has begun rediscovering and rethinking the history of the Colony. Our investigations have established a rich and unexpected tapestry of life that played out at multiple scales of analysis according to a variety of issues. The settlement’s rise and fall was shaped by wider improvement processes impacting parts of Europe and beyond, but it is also an example of how outside influences were adopted locally, resisted and adapted; material conditions that played directly into the way community relations were themselves constituted. The lessons learned have implications for the archaeology of improvement and the study of informal communities on a global scale.

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH), 2014

Books by Jackson Armstrong

Aberdeen Registers Online: 1398-1511 , 2019

Aberdeen Registers Online: 1398-1511 (ARO) is a digital transcription of the first eight volumes ... more Aberdeen Registers Online: 1398-1511 (ARO) is a digital transcription of the first eight volumes of the Aberdeen Council Registers. These comprise the earliest and most complete run of books of civic government in Scotland, beginning in 1398 (volume one) and covering the period up to 1511 (volume eight).

Miscellany Eight [Stair Society vol. 67] , 2020

Andrew R. C. Simpson and Jackson W. Armstrong, “The Roll of the Burgh Courts of Aberdeen, August–... more Andrew R. C. Simpson and Jackson W. Armstrong, “The Roll of the Burgh Courts of Aberdeen, August–October 1317”, in A. M. Godfrey (ed.), Miscellany Eight [Stair Society vol. 67] (Edinburgh, 2020), pp. 57–93

Miscellany Eight [Stair Society vol. 67] , 2020

The Stair Society under Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND and may be freely shared for non-com... more The Stair Society under Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND and may be freely shared for non-commercial purposes so long as the creators are credited.

This article arises from the Bennachie Landscapes Project, a collaboration between the Bailies of... more This article arises from the Bennachie Landscapes Project, a collaboration between the Bailies of Bennachie and staff from the University of Aberdeen. It examines the interaction of archival and archaeological investigations by community researchers concerned especially with the Bennachie 'Colony', a settlement of crofters on the hill of Bennachie (located near to Inverurie, Aberdeenshire) in the nineteenth century. An exercise partly in community archives, community archaeology, social history and historical archaeology, this project has sought to explore the everyday lives of the Bennachie 'colonists', in order to understand more closely their social and economic experiences and context. In doing so, archival and archaeological research methods have come together in a direct way which has raised new questions about life in the Colony. The project demonstrates a clear example of how textual and non-textual records may work together, in what might be described as an exercise in 'community archives-archaeology'.

In this paper we explore the intertwined issues of improvement and community relations within the... more In this paper we explore the intertwined issues of improvement and community relations within the context of the Colony site, a nineteenth-century informal settlement in Scotland best known through caricatures of the poor and stereotypes of rural living. Drawing on a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research framework, a collaborative initiative involving academics and community researchers has begun rediscovering and rethinking the history of the Colony. Our investigations have established a rich and unexpected tapestry of life that played out at multiple scales of analysis according to a variety of issues. The settlement’s rise and fall was shaped by wider improvement processes impacting parts of Europe and beyond, but it is also an example of how outside influences were adopted locally, resisted and adapted; material conditions that played directly into the way community relations were themselves constituted. The lessons learned have implications for the archaeology of improvement and the study of informal communities on a global scale.

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH), 2014

Aberdeen Registers Online: 1398-1511 , 2019

Aberdeen Registers Online: 1398-1511 (ARO) is a digital transcription of the first eight volumes ... more Aberdeen Registers Online: 1398-1511 (ARO) is a digital transcription of the first eight volumes of the Aberdeen Council Registers. These comprise the earliest and most complete run of books of civic government in Scotland, beginning in 1398 (volume one) and covering the period up to 1511 (volume eight).