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

该项目将通过探索战后苏格兰女性参与高尔夫运动的“隐藏”历史，通过超越现有的精英水平球员的叙述，来解决高尔夫史学中公认的“差距”。该项目旨在了解是什么促使妇女参加这项运动，她们面临什么挑战，她们从参与中得到了什么，以及阶级、年龄和生命周期阶段的潜在影响。虽然英国高尔夫博物馆（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“隐藏”的叙述在BGM的收藏中为子孙后代保留下来。候选人将访问英国高尔夫博物馆、圣安德鲁斯皇家古高尔夫俱乐部和女子高尔夫联盟（LGU）的藏品，以帮助他们进行初步研究。女子高尔夫联盟于2017年1月与R&A合并。这项研究的成果将提供给BGM，以创建新的展览和/或重新解释现有的展览和收藏。

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.