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Specialist Meetings
Shaw, Mark R
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National War Museum Library
Sarah Dallman introduces the holdings of the National War Museum Library, which are rich in military history resources including books, paintings, army lists and journalsDallman, Sarah
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Ceremonial or deadly serious ? New insight into the function of Irish Early Bronze Age halberds
The articles in this volume cover aspects relating to archaeometallurgy, functional analyses, experimental work and archaeology and focus on multidisciplinary approaches for studying archaeological artefacts. Contents: 1) Introduction (Marianne Modlinger, Marion Uckelmann and Steven Matthews); 2) Spearheads and swords – The making of bronze objects (Markus Binggeli); 3) Use-wear on...O'Flaherty, R ; Gilchrist, M D ; Cowie, Trevor
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Two denarius hoards from Birnie, Moray
This paper will describe and discuss the significance of two hoards of Roman silver denarii found within a few metres of each other on what proved to be an important settlement site at Birnie, near Elgin, Moray - the first between 1996 and 2000, and the second in 2001.Holmes, N M McQ.
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4.3.2 Copper alloy
Excavation on the headland at Auldhame has revealed one thousand years of burial activity and liturgical practice, the nature of which changed over the course of the millennium. It has charted the birth and death of a church, from a monastic settlement established in the seventh century AD, which then...McLaren, Dawn ; Hunter, Fraser
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The long march of the platform
Stacked soles have been around since the ancient Greeks now they’re stomping down the catwalks again. The fashion curator Georgina Ripley charts the history of the high-rise shoe.Ripley, Georgina
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David Livingstone: man, myth and legacy
David Livingstone (1813-73) rose from being a factory boy in the west of Scotland to become an African explorer and a hero of the Victorian age. He was the first European to document Malawi in the mid 1800s and he continues to be remembered there - and in the David... -
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School microscopes in the Sixties.
Nuttall, R H
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Torrs – Witham – Wandsworth-Stil
Hunter, Fraser
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Victorian photography: a Scottish perspective
Morrison-Low, A D
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How silver became Scotland's precious metal of choice
Silver - not gold - was the most powerful material in the formative history of Scotland in the first millennium AD, yet none was mined here. How did silver become Scotland's precious metal of choice?Blackwell, Alice
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In the shadow of Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon: the 10th Duke of Hamilton and Raeburn
‘Indiscriminate praise is little better than censure’: critical contexts for understanding Raeburn’s portraitureEvans, Godfrey
taste, Raeburn, Scotland, collecting, Enlightenment, patronage, art, and portraiture
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The species of four genera of Metopiinae (Hymenoptera:Ichneumonidae) in Britain, with new host records and descriptions of four new species
Two genera of Metopiinae are recorded for the first time from the British Isles, Ischyrocnemis Holmgren and Synosis Townes. An account is also given of a further two genera, Apolophus Townes and Stethoncus Townes, that have been recently recorded from Britain but remain little known. Apolophus and Synosis are shown...Broad, G R ; Shaw, Mark R
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Conference paper (published)
One model for the care of corporate heritage: The BT Connected Earth partnership in practice since 2002
Connected Earth is a web based museum of the history of communication,underpinned by a series of major physical collections, distributed among a network of museums around the UK. It represents a £6 million investment by BT (British Telecommunications plc), to promote the widest possible access to its collections of historical...Taubman, Alison