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The Agnes Owens Archive
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Opening 2025, a new public resource dedicated to the Scottish writer Agnes Owens. This archive is housed within agrayarchive.bsky.social
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Sep 3
A real treat to welcome the brilliant @kirstininnes.bsky.social to AGA today and to show her the @aowensarchive.bsky.social archive collection ❤️

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Jul 9
Timeline post 24: 1975 - In this year Alasdair meets Agnes Owens @aowensarchive.bsky.social through Liz Lochhead who was teaching at a local writers group in Alexandria which Agnes attended. Alasdair would champion her throughout her life & they would send each other transcripts to edit.
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Jun 19
Thanks to everyone who attended our @sgsah.bsky.social Summer School session today on ‘Reflecting Creative Practice Through Archiving’. Our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social enjoyed sharing her journey to growing AGA over the last five years & the development of @aowensarchive.bsky.social
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Jun 14
OPENS TODAY: Alasdair Gray: Works from The Morag McAlpine Bequest at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum feat. book cover art works for @aowensarchive.bsky.social
In an interview Morag said: "I think that we probably had quite lonely times before we met. And we now know the value of being together.’
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Jun 12
Huge thanks to our brilliant volunteer Evie Glen who has written on ‘Glasgow’s Community Archives’ for GUM mag which highlights AGA and @aowensarchive.bsky.social feat. interviews with our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social
& @sgsah.bsky.social CDA researcher Laura MacDonald
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Jun 9
Happy birthday James Kelman!
Born on 9th of June 1946, Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer & playwright. In his early twenties he began writing stories that were true to his own life & social-cultural experience. Author portraits for Lean Tales with @aowensarchive.bsky.social
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Jun 6
Our @aowensarchive.bsky.social @sgsah.bsky.social funded CDA student, Laura MacDonald is presenting today at the Oral History Society conference, ‘Whose Voices?’, on outcomes of interviews with one of Owens’s sons, John Crosbie, and how these interviews have shaped her ongoing doctoral research.
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The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social · May 25
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AScottishBookCollector @noahdidny.bsky.social · May 24
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The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social · May 24
Happy birthday Agnes ❤️
Deeply honoured to be working with Agnes’s family to bring her work to wider attention in 2026 to coincide with her centenary via her archive (housed within @agrayarchive.bsky.social) ❤️
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The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social · May 16
A lovely tour group today including Arts Development Office at West Dunbartonshire Council Maeve Dixon, who was responsible for programming our Agnes talk for International Women’s Day earlier this year, and Shirley Howlitt who invited Agnes to deliver literacy sessions at Maryhill in the 1990s.
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · May 1
Next in our Student Stories series is Arran Mackenzie Rey, with us as part of his Masters in Creative Writing at Strathclyde University working on @aowensarchive.bsky.social to explore gothic links in Agnes’s work, will be sharing his research soon!
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Gentleman of the West @gentleman-of-west.bsky.social · Apr 30
Just brilliant and great about the interview!
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The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social · Apr 30
Really special to welcome Lewis, Agnes’s grandson, to the archive today with partner Kat and Agnes’s great granddaughter, Freya. Lewis was really generous in allowing our @sgsah.bsky.social researcher, Laura MacDonald, to interview and map his memories of Agnes as a much loved grandmother ❤️
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The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social · Apr 30
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Laura MacDonald @laurzzs.bsky.social · Apr 30
Fantastic to have Lewis and his lovely family in the archive this morning! Hugely grateful for his contribution to the oral history interviews about Agnes Owens's life and legacy.
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The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social · Apr 30
Really special to welcome Lewis, Agnes’s grandson, to the archive today with partner Kat and Agnes’s great granddaughter, Freya. Lewis was really generous in allowing our @sgsah.bsky.social researcher, Laura MacDonald, to interview and map his memories of Agnes as a much loved grandmother ❤️
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The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social · Apr 30
Really special to welcome Lewis, Agnes’s grandson, to the archive today with partner Kat and Agnes’s great granddaughter, Freya. Lewis was really generous in allowing our @sgsah.bsky.social researcher, Laura MacDonald, to interview and map his memories of Agnes as a much loved grandmother ❤️
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Apr 10
Huge thanks to @danigaravelli.bsky.social for her brilliant piece in @lrb.co.uk this was Alasdair’s favourite literary magazine to read so feels very special for the archive to be featured in it, link in bio to read the piece in full👆🏽
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Mar 25
Our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social was delighted to join students yesterday from Curatorial Practice at GSA/GU to discuss her curatorial journey and how she’s been embedding her approach based on radical empathy and care at The Alasdair Gray Archive and @aowensarchive.bsky.social
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Laura MacDonald @laurzzs.bsky.social · Mar 15
Another lovely afternoon recording John's memories of his mum, Agnes Owens.

Huge thank you, John, for providing such rich and valuable insights!
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The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social · Mar 15
Fantastic to have Agnes’s son John Crosbie back in the archive yesterday!
John came in for his second oral history interview with our @sgsah.bsky.social CDA student, Laura MacDonald. Laura and John are undertaking a series of interviews to record his memories of his mum.
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The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social · Mar 15
Fantastic to have Agnes’s son John Crosbie back in the archive yesterday!
John came in for his second oral history interview with our @sgsah.bsky.social CDA student, Laura MacDonald. Laura and John are undertaking a series of interviews to record his memories of his mum.
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Mar 13
Watch the brilliant @sarasheridan.bsky.social discussing at Gray Day 2025 her recent commission with us, why archives matter and what makes AGA particularly rich. Sara’s short story commission was supported in partnership with Creative Writing at Strathclyde ⬇️
Sara Sheridan Gray Day 2025
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Mar 10
Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social, and new Curatorial Assistant, Holly Rennie Brown are delighted to present a lighting talk poster at today's Connecting Communities: A Shared Responsibility for Digital Sustainability @scotsarchives.bsky.social
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Mar 8
Our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social honoured to meet so many of Agnes Owens friends & family today whilst discussing her work & plans for sharing via the @aowensarchive.bsky.social at Alexandria Library for #internationalwomensday
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Mar 8
For #InternationalWomensDay we celebrate Agnes Owens whose darkly comic stories of everyday working-class life brought a satirical edge to the wealth of post-industrial urban Scottish fiction produced at the end of the 20th cent, can’t wait to open @aowensarchive.bsky.social later this year!
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Mar 7
Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social , is delighted to be giving a talk on Agnes Owens tomorrow for #internationalwomensday
She will be discussing her work & plans to bring it to wider attention via the opening in 2025 of @aowensarchive.bsky.social supported by her family ❤️
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