The Agnes Owens Archive
@aowensarchive.bsky.social
Opening 2025, a new public resource dedicated to the Scottish writer Agnes Owens. This archive is housed within agrayarchive.bsky.social
Delighted to welcome Peter Kravitz for an oral history interview with our @sgsah.bsky.social CDA student, Laura MacDonald at the archive yesterday. He shared rich insights into publishing and Owens’ work, even reading ‘When Shankland Comes.’ Thank you, Peter!
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Delighted to welcome Peter Kravitz for an oral history interview with our @sgsah.bsky.social CDA student, Laura MacDonald at the archive yesterday. He shared rich insights into publishing and Owens’ work, even reading ‘When Shankland Comes.’ Thank you, Peter!
Happy birthday Agnes ❤️
Deeply honoured to be working with Agnes’s family to bring her work to wider attention in 2026 to coincide with her centenary via her archive (housed within @agrayarchive.bsky.social) ❤️
Deeply honoured to be working with Agnes’s family to bring her work to wider attention in 2026 to coincide with her centenary via her archive (housed within @agrayarchive.bsky.social) ❤️
May 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Happy birthday Agnes ❤️
Deeply honoured to be working with Agnes’s family to bring her work to wider attention in 2026 to coincide with her centenary via her archive (housed within @agrayarchive.bsky.social) ❤️
Deeply honoured to be working with Agnes’s family to bring her work to wider attention in 2026 to coincide with her centenary via her archive (housed within @agrayarchive.bsky.social) ❤️
A lovely tour group today including Arts Development Office at West Dunbartonshire Council Maeve Dixon, who was responsible for programming our Agnes talk for International Women’s Day earlier this year, and Shirley Howlitt who invited Agnes to deliver literacy sessions at Maryhill in the 1990s.
May 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A lovely tour group today including Arts Development Office at West Dunbartonshire Council Maeve Dixon, who was responsible for programming our Agnes talk for International Women’s Day earlier this year, and Shirley Howlitt who invited Agnes to deliver literacy sessions at Maryhill in the 1990s.
Really special to welcome Lewis, Agnes’s grandson, to the archive today with partner Kat and Agnes’s great granddaughter, Freya. Lewis was really generous in allowing our @sgsah.bsky.social researcher, Laura MacDonald, to interview and map his memories of Agnes as a much loved grandmother ❤️
April 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Really special to welcome Lewis, Agnes’s grandson, to the archive today with partner Kat and Agnes’s great granddaughter, Freya. Lewis was really generous in allowing our @sgsah.bsky.social researcher, Laura MacDonald, to interview and map his memories of Agnes as a much loved grandmother ❤️
Fantastic to have Agnes’s son John Crosbie back in the archive yesterday!
John came in for his second oral history interview with our @sgsah.bsky.social CDA student, Laura MacDonald. Laura and John are undertaking a series of interviews to record his memories of his mum.
John came in for his second oral history interview with our @sgsah.bsky.social CDA student, Laura MacDonald. Laura and John are undertaking a series of interviews to record his memories of his mum.
March 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Fantastic to have Agnes’s son John Crosbie back in the archive yesterday!
John came in for his second oral history interview with our @sgsah.bsky.social CDA student, Laura MacDonald. Laura and John are undertaking a series of interviews to record his memories of his mum.
John came in for his second oral history interview with our @sgsah.bsky.social CDA student, Laura MacDonald. Laura and John are undertaking a series of interviews to record his memories of his mum.
For #WorldBookDay sharing Agnes’ 1984 novel, Gentlemen of the West.
‘When ye’ve got nothin’ tae dae ye get intae trouble, even if ye’re no’ lookin’ for it.’
This was Owens’s debut novella, originally published by Polygon Books with cover art by friend @AGrayArchive
‘When ye’ve got nothin’ tae dae ye get intae trouble, even if ye’re no’ lookin’ for it.’
This was Owens’s debut novella, originally published by Polygon Books with cover art by friend @AGrayArchive
March 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
For #WorldBookDay sharing Agnes’ 1984 novel, Gentlemen of the West.
‘When ye’ve got nothin’ tae dae ye get intae trouble, even if ye’re no’ lookin’ for it.’
This was Owens’s debut novella, originally published by Polygon Books with cover art by friend @AGrayArchive
‘When ye’ve got nothin’ tae dae ye get intae trouble, even if ye’re no’ lookin’ for it.’
This was Owens’s debut novella, originally published by Polygon Books with cover art by friend @AGrayArchive
A momentous day on Friday as the brilliant Evie and Shona completed accessioning and digitising Agnes’s archive!
Can’t wait to start to share this incredible collection with you in advance of centenary plans in 2026!
Can’t wait to start to share this incredible collection with you in advance of centenary plans in 2026!
February 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A momentous day on Friday as the brilliant Evie and Shona completed accessioning and digitising Agnes’s archive!
Can’t wait to start to share this incredible collection with you in advance of centenary plans in 2026!
Can’t wait to start to share this incredible collection with you in advance of centenary plans in 2026!
Lovely visitors for a sneak peek at the archive today 👌
January 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Lovely visitors for a sneak peek at the archive today 👌
Great to welcome BBC Scotland’s Pauline McLean today ❤️
December 10, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Great to welcome BBC Scotland’s Pauline McLean today ❤️
A momentous day yesterday… our SGSAH CDA student Laura MacDonald’s first oral history interview with Agnes’s son @gentleman-of-west.bsky.social
It’s thanks to John we are fortunate to host Agnes’s archive and it’s a real privilege to work with him on bringing her work to wider attention.
It’s thanks to John we are fortunate to host Agnes’s archive and it’s a real privilege to work with him on bringing her work to wider attention.
November 23, 2024 at 7:29 AM
A momentous day yesterday… our SGSAH CDA student Laura MacDonald’s first oral history interview with Agnes’s son @gentleman-of-west.bsky.social
It’s thanks to John we are fortunate to host Agnes’s archive and it’s a real privilege to work with him on bringing her work to wider attention.
It’s thanks to John we are fortunate to host Agnes’s archive and it’s a real privilege to work with him on bringing her work to wider attention.