I am a final year history student from the University of Stirling – a historian in training, so to say. My studies focus on Scotland and Europe during the early modern period but throughout the past year, as I started volunteering on the ‘Landscape Legacies of Coal Mining’ project, I have developed a deep interest
“Yvonne Weighand Lyle is an artist based in Edinburgh, who has centred much of her work around her family roots in the coal-mining communities of Midlothian (https://yvonneweighandlyle.format.com/). Yvonne’s work includes large-format oil painting, sculpture, printing, and installation, using an ever-expanding range of techniques and styles. A few days before lockdown, María Vélez-Serna interviewed Yvonne at
We launched the Coal App in April 2019 and looking back over the past 18 months of operation, the extent to which it has evolved and developed has been remarkable. It began as a self-contained project commissioned by the Macrobert Art Centre at the University of Stirling to support their community heritage initiative based around the theme of
Theme by the University of Stirling