Sarah has worked in various roles within the heritage sector and has experience of working in museums, archives and galleries with a variety of collections from fine art, costume, oral history, political archives to printing machinery.
Sarah is also the Museums Galleries Scotland appointed Accreditation Manager for Dunblane Museum. This role involves providing advice on all aspects of museum curation and the museum’s accreditation process. She is a chartered librarian and has an interest in print history. She is co-founder of the Pathfoot Press at the University which cross-divisional, cross-institutional collaboration between the University of Stirling Art Collection, the University of Stirling Division of Literature and Languages, and the University of St Andrews. Until 2022 she was Archivist for the Scottish Political Archive.
Sarah is a member of the Centre for Environment Heritage and Policy and the Centre for Scottish Studies at the University.
Scottish contemporary art, museum studies, Scottish politics, archival practice, library history
Lecture
Al-Mulla R, Bowman S & Bromage S (2024) History and Archives in Practice summer lunchtime talk series: In Conversation with the University of Stirling’s Pandemic Oral History Project team (Presentation) History and Archives in Practice summer lunchtime talk series. History and Archives in Practice 2024, 29.07.2024-29.07.2024. https://royalhistsoc.org/history-and-archives-in-practice-lunchtime-talk-series-now-available/
Book Chapter
‘An Unusual Period of Unspecified Length’: A Creative Oral History of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Bowman S, Al-Mulla R, Bromage S, Armstrong D & Pruente K (2024) ‘An Unusual Period of Unspecified Length’: A Creative Oral History of the Covid-19 Pandemic. In: Paper Trails. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.9781787359253.37
Other
Article
Stirling University Pandemic Oral History Project: “A Constructive Response to a Destructive Event”
Bowman S, Al-Mulla R & Bromage S (2022) Stirling University Pandemic Oral History Project: “A Constructive Response to a Destructive Event”. History Scotland, 22 (2), pp. 44-45. https://www.historyscotland.com/store/back-issues/history-scotland
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Contemporary collecting - it's not just for Covid
Al-Mulla R & Bromage S (2021) Contemporary collecting - it's not just for Covid. Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland Annual Conference 2021, Online, 01.09.2021-03.09.2021. https://virt-us.app/e/ara-annual-conference-2021/sessions/666/
Article
Archival Review: The Scottish Political Archive – A Contemporary Collection
Al-Mulla R & Bromage S (2021) Archival Review: The Scottish Political Archive – A Contemporary Collection. Studies on National Movements, 7 (1), pp. 109-117. https://snm.nise.eu/index.php/studies/article/view/86
Exhibition
Lest Scotland Forgets: A Stirling 100 Exhibition (2012-13)
Penman M, Bromage S & James S Lest Scotland Forgets: A Stirling 100 Exhibition (2012-13).