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1960s - 2015
Papers of Colin Kirkwood, writer, academic and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and Geraldine Kirkwood, adult and community educator, community activist and English teacher, relating to community activism, writers' workshops and adult educational work in Glasgow, Edinburgh and the North Midlands in England.
Includes:
- Letters and poems from Scottish writers and poets, including Tom Leonard, Bob Tait, Edwin Morgan and Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1960s-2005
- Copies of the community newspaper 'Staveley Now', 1970-1973, and letters and papers relating to community work and adult education in Staveley, Derbyshire, 1969-1976
- Copies of the community newspaper 'Castlemilk Today', 1973-1978, and the tenants' newspaper 'Scottish Tenant', 1973-1974, and papers relating to community action in Castlemilk, Glasgow, 1974-1984
- Research by Chris Clarke on Castlemilk community action and critical theory, and related letters, c. 1977-1980
- Recording of a discussion between Colin Kirkwood and Tom Leonard about Leonard's poetry, 1984
- Papers relating to the implementation of the ideas of the Brazilian adult educator, Paulo Freire, in the Adult Learning Project in the Gorgie Dalry area of Edinburgh, c. 1975-1997
- Copies of 'Scottish International' and 'Feedback' magazines, 1967-1973
- Books and articles by Colin and Geraldine Kirkwood, 1984-2015
- Reviews of 'Living Adult Education: Freire in Scotland' by Colin and Geraldine Kirkwood (1989) and of 'Vulgar Eloquence: Essays in Education, Community and Politics' by Colin Kirkwood (1990)
- Writers' workshop publications, 1980s