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SUMMARY:Stobs Camp - Art & Creativity in a Barbed - Wire World.  Andrew Jepson\, Archaeology Scotland
DESCRIPTION:Hello everyone and welcome to another exciting session of Lectures at Paisley University. We will meet in the same room as before D137 ground floor of the McLean Building \n\nStobs Military Camp\n\nFor nearly 60 years\, thousands of young men used the facilities at Stobs Camp near Hawick in the Scottish Borders to train for war. Now the bleak\, windswept hills lie as silent witnesses to all that passed before them. \nStobs Camp has significant historical importance with its quality of remains\, intact training ground\, massive archaeological potential and huge educational resource. Due to its extraordinary level of preservation Stobs Camp is an internationally important site relating to Scotland’s preparation for and subsequent handling of First World War prisoners. \nWithin Scotland no site exists with the mix of army training camp and prisoners of war and internees in one place\, none has the surviving remains visible as at Stobs\, no other camp has any standing buildings and much of the training ground including firing ranges and trenches surviving. And within the UK\, no First World War prisoner of war camp has upstanding buildings remaining\, no internees’ camp survives on the mainland\, and no training camps survive to the same level of preservation. \nThis is why Stobs is so important. \nMr Andrew Jepson  a.jepson@archaeologyscotland.org.uk will be discussing  the similarity of internment and lockdown and how\, today\, we can be inspired by the resolve of the First World War prisoners at Stobs by looking at their material culture. The talk starts with a brief overview of the camp to set the scene. \nAbout Andrew\, \n“After moving to Scotland in 2006 Andrew set in motion his plan to transition from working in IT to following his passion for history and archaeology. His interest in practical archaeology began in 2011 when he started volunteering for the National Trust for Scotland. In his spare time\, he continues to help the Trust supervise community archaeology digs. In 2017 he became an NTS Thistle Camp Leader.\n\nAndrew joined Archaeology Scotland in 2015 to run an educational project focusing on the Jacobite’s in Stirlingshire. This included managing two archaeological digs at St Ninians Kirk and Dunblane for over 300 children. In the same year he graduated with a First-Class Honours degree in History\, helped organise the Borders Heritage Festival and ran Gallipoli-related exhibition school workshops at Old Gala House. In 2016 he helped curate a Celts exhibition for Borders Museums and for Archaeology Scotland he began work on the Stobs Camp Project with the aim of exploring\, sharing and commemorating the First World War site near Hawick in the Scottish Borders. He has subsequently developed a keen interest in First World War internment camps.\n\nHe is passionate about promoting the history\, heritage and archaeology of the Scottish Borders.”
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LOCATION:D137/9\, McLean Building\, UWS\, Storie Street\, Paisley\, PA1 2BE\, United Kingdom
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