Project description
Remembering the forgotten culture of manuscript magazines
Before the digital age, people shared ideas, stories, and opinions through handwritten manuscript magazines. Created and circulated among families, schools, and clubs from 1860 to 1920, these self-made periodicals thrived during a boom in literacy and print culture. Produced by amateurs, they fostered shared storytelling, commentary, and creativity. Yet many surviving copies lie overlooked in scattered archives. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the MS-LAB project will explore their role in everyday life across the UK and Ireland, while developing a new method for analysing their form and content. In addition to fresh archival research, a new digital platform will make these fragile cultural artefacts accessible to the wider public.
Objective
Manuscript (MS) magazines were handwritten magazines that were created for private consumption by groups of people whose contributions to the magazine made up its contents. Though research on manuscript magazines is scarce, and archival examples are scattered, they were an important part of self-made cultures circa 1860-1920. A rise in literacy, and Golden Ages of journalism, periodical literature and children's literature contributed to their popularity. Though they were often started in the domestic space, and spoke to highly localised concerns, they were circulated and had a wide readership, much like social media of today. This project, ‘MS-LAB: Manuscript Lives Across the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1860-1920’ will interrogate the place of MS magazines in family life and the development of literary cultivation across the four nations of the United Kingdom during the period in question. Through new archival research conducted in the four nations, and the design of a new methodology for comprehending the form and content of MS magazines, this project will produce new knowledge on this underexamined facet of shared cultural heritage. A dedicated web project hosting digitised surrogates of these manuscripts will share findings on these manuscripts with a wide public audience. During a non-academic placement with the Department of Archives and Manuscripts Collections in the National Library of Scotland, the researcher will share insights with colleagues working in the heritage industry who are typically the custodians of these unique manuscripts. The project's outcomes will pave the way for further work on this unique form in mainland Europe, as the web project and multimodal methodology can be applied to MS magazines found across other European collections.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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FK9 4LA Stirling
United Kingdom
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