{"id":444,"date":"2015-08-26T15:28:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T15:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2015-09-04T11:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T11:07:44","slug":"the-ian-landles-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/2015\/08\/26\/the-ian-landles-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ian Landles Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fascinating insight into the lives of Scottish Borders folk in the last century\u00a0comes to Scran.<\/h2>\n

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This series of interviews and sound recordings collected by local historian, retired teacher and author, Ian Landles, between the 1960s and 2010 was originally started in order to preserve the memories of local men who had fought in World War One<\/a>\u00a0and is a great complement to existing material on Scran\u00a0about the conflict. However, the archive also offers a rich seam of oral testimonies from local women as well as men and covers themes including the\u00a0Hawick Common Riding, poetry and music, farming life and mill life and the original Border railways. Many of the interviewees speak in the local dialect of Border Scots known as ‘Teri Talk’ which gives the recordings great linguistic significance.<\/p>\n

The collection of 150 tapes was donated to the Scottish Borders Council Archives at the Heritage Hub in Hawick <\/a>by Ian Landles in 2014. Digitisation of the interviews was carried out by Tobar an Dualchais with financial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.<\/p>\n

The Ian Landles Collection<\/a> is also being made available through Scran in the form of segmented interviews with full summaries. Some transcripts are also available. Interviewees who talk about their life in the Scottish Borders include:<\/p>\n