An Oral History of Women's Golf in Scotland, 1945-1995

这个项目将通过探索战后苏格兰女性参与这项运动的“隐藏”历史，超越现有的关于精英水平球员的叙述，来解决高尔夫球史上一个公认的“鸿沟”。这个项目试图了解女性参与这个游戏的动机是什么，她们面临什么挑战，她们从参与中获得了什么，以及阶级、年龄和生命周期阶段的潜在影响。虽然大英高尔夫博物馆(BGM)的档案将被广泛利用，以了解这一时期女子高尔夫运动的更广泛背景，但口述历史的收集将是该项目的一个基本方面，从而确保这些以前被隐藏的故事被保存在BGM的收藏品中。候选人将访问大英高尔夫博物馆、圣安德鲁斯皇家和古代高尔夫俱乐部以及2017年1月与R&A合并的女子高尔夫联盟(LGU)的收藏品，以帮助他们进行初步研究。这项研究的结果将提供给BGM，以创建新的展览和/或重新解释现有的展示和收藏。

This project will address an acknowledged 'gap' in the historiography of golf by exploring the 'hidden' history of women's participation in the game in post-war Scotland by looking beyond the existing narratives around elite level players. This project seeks to understand what motivated women to take up the game, what challenges they faced, what they got from their participation and the potential influence of class, age and stage in lifecycle. While the archives of the British Golf Museum (BGM) will be drawn upon extensively to understand the broader context of the women's game in this period, the collection of oral histories will be a fundamental aspect of the project, thereby ensuring that these previously 'hidden' narratives are preserved for posterity within the collections of the BGM.The candidate will access the collections of the British Golf Museum, The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and of the Ladies' Golf Union (LGU), which merged with The R&A in January 2017, to aid their primary research. The output of this study will be made available to the BGM to create new exhibitions and/or reinterpret existing displays and collections.