Lockdown Lore
Collection Project

Lockdown Lore Collection Project

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/public-engagement/LockdownLore

English, Scots, Gaelic

Elphinstone Institute Archives, Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen

The Lockdown Lore Collection Project is documenting Scotland’s creative responses to the pandemic. In addition to conducting over sixty long-form interviews with people about life during the pandemic, we have received a wide variety of submissions from around Scotland and beyond. These include photos of street art and handmade objects among other things, as well as films, songs, instrumental tunes, poems, diary entries, and descriptions of digital initiatives started during the pandemic. Once the project is closed and the contributions are fully catalogued, they will be made more widely available according to permissions given by the contributors.