{"id":1163,"date":"2015-11-16T11:33:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T11:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2015-11-17T11:25:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T11:25:03","slug":"womens-voice-from-the-scottish-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/2015\/11\/16\/womens-voice-from-the-scottish-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Voices from the Scottish Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remembering domestic servants, shorthand typists, cinema pianists and suffragettes: new soundbites from the Ian Landles Oral History\u00a0Archive<\/h2>\n

We’re releasing some more soundbites from the Ian Landles Oral History Archive this week. This time we’re showcasing the stories of women from the Scottish Borders.<\/p>\n

You’ll hear from Mrs Oliver (b.1901) about her experiences as a pianist working in cinemas in Hawick – ‘The Piv’ and ‘The Wee Thee’ – providing the soundtrack for silent movies. Mrs Oliver also worked as a shorthand typist and she talks about this in a second soundbite. We learn how she perfected her shorthand by sitting in the back of church during services and noting down the sermons.<\/p>\n

Other women talk about their memories of the suffrage movement in\u00a0the years leading up to the First World War. Mrs Stewart (b.1881) remembers suffragettes coming to Hawick and Mrs Thomson tells us how the activists gained a reputation amongst the locals: ‘they come to burn hooses doon’.<\/p>\n