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"To no one Nation has been given the Monopoly of Genius" : Multiple Nationalisms at the National Museum of Scotland, a Director’s View
In 1857, George Wilson, Regius Professor of Science and Technology at the University of Edinburgh,laid out a vision for a new museum under his directorship, the Industrial Museum (today the National Museum) of Scotland.Though formed in the context of Britain’s imperial ambitions, the institution Wilson envisaged also seemed to speak...Breward, Christopher
Scotland, culture, philosophy, George Wilson, colonialism , museum vision, imperialism, and national museums
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List of Extinct Birds in the Holocene
This is a unique list of bird species that have died out during the last 11,700 years of the Holocene, including English and Swedish names as well as references to the formal descriptions of the taxa. The taxonomy and sequence largely follows IOC when applicable, with priority given to the...Asplund, G ; Stervander, Martin ; Jirle, E ; M, Lagerqvist
extinction, bird species, Holocene, bird families, taxonomy, and genera
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the German Spy museumNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Berlin, Cold War, German Spy museum , and Berlin Wall
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the German Spy Museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Espionage, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, and Objects
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Espionage, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, and Object
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Espionage, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, Object, and Label
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Espionage, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, and Objects
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Espionage, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, and Objects
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Berlin, Cold War, and Exhibition
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Espionage, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, and Object
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Object, Berlin, Cold War, German Spy Museum, and Espionage
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Object, Label, Berlin, Cold War, Espionage, and German Spy Museum
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Label, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, Object, and Espionage
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Espionage, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, and Object
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Object, Label, Berlin, Cold War, German Spy Museum, and Espionage
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Object, Berlin, Cold War, Espionage, and German Spy Museum
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Espionage, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, and Object
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, Object, and Weapon
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Berlin, Exhibition, and Cold War
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Berlin, Cold War, and Exhibition
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Journal article
Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania
In August 2023, Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania opened at the National Museum of Scotland. The exhibition considers how life depends on the ocean and presents various ways in which individuals within Oceania are working to protect it through the medium of artistic practice. From the start, we...Clark, Alison ; Dawson, Jan ; Duffy, Declan
Oceania, artistic practice, re-use, Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania , exhibition, recycle, and sustainability
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Presentation
Rematriating the House of NI-Isjhool memorial pole: from Naional Museums Scotland to the Nisga'a (National) Museum
Giblin, John
rematriation , Nisga Nation Ni’isjoohl Memorial Pole, colonial histories , Hli G̱oothl Wilp-Adoḵshl Nisg̱a’a , Scotland to Canada, and National Museums Scotland
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Lecture
Aspects of Roman Scotland
Hunter, Fraser
Hoards and Roman Scotland
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Lecture
Arqueologías del colonialismo en Puerto Rico y Escocia
Las situaciones coloniales en ambos Espacios corresponden a contextualizaciones distintas. En Puerto Rico, responde a la invasion Europea de 1493. Port otra parte, en 793 se documenta la invasion Vikinga en las Islas Britanicas. Las vidas tanto de los Pictos, como los Tainos, han sido invisibilizidas en diversas documentaciones historicas....Maldonado, Adrián
Pictos, invasion Vikinga , Viking invasion, Picts, Escosia, and Early Medieval Scotland
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War and diplomacy on Rome’s northern frontier
The Roman army provided the muscle for the most powerful empire in the ancient world. But this empire met its limits. The fearsome legions tried three times to conquer Scotland, and three times they withdrew. This epic tale of war and diplomacy, of advance and retreat, of divide and rule,...Hunter, Fraser
Roman conquest, archaeological finds, Roman Scotland, material culture, and Stirlingshire
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The Last Days of Fortriu: Portmahomack in the Viking Age
Join Dr Adrián Maldonado from National Museums Scotland to hear the latest update on research around the archaeological site at Portmahomack. The archaeological excavations at Portmahomack which ran from 1996-2007 revealed what is now the best-known Pictish monastery. It was a thriving workshop, creating sacred metalwork, masterpieces of stone sculpture,...Maldonado, Adrián
workshop, archaeological excavations, Pictish kingdom, Pictish monastery, Fortriu, christian site, craftspeople , and Portmahomack
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Conference paper (unpublished)
History of the Caprington Colliery Engine
The senior curator of technology at National Museums Scotland (NMS), presents the work of Geoff Hayes, whose engineering expertise was essential to the reconstruction of this engine in its current location at NMS. This paper describes what is known of its working life, its preservation, and its current interpretation.Swinbank, Ellie
reconstruction, Geoff Hayes, Caprington Colliery Engine, engineering, museum object, working machine, industrial heritage, and coal mining
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Newspaper article
How contemporary collecting will show future generations who we are
A big part of the National Museum of Scotland’s mandate is to acquire new artefacts, not least in the area of sustainability and climate change to help inspire and engage those who visit, writes Dr Ellie SwinbankSwinbank, Ellie
Sustainability strategy , climate change , biodiversity loss, cutting-edge developments, National Museums Scotland, contemporary collecting , and museum collections
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Lecture
Getting away from it all – Marie de Guise’s Town House, Blyth’s Close, Edinburgh
As Principal Curator for Renaissance and Early Modern History, Anna played a major part in acquiring for the museum the four decorative oak roundels which once adorned the rooms of Marie de Guise’s residence in Blyth’s Close, Edinburgh. The roundels reveal much about the power and influence of Marie in...Groundwater, Anna
oak roundels, architecture, Renaissance , material culture, mansion, Marie de Guise, Scotland, Blyth’s Close, Edinburgh, and sculpture
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Radar and the Air Defence System in Scotland
Ian was lead curator for the redevelopment of two hangars in 2016 with new, people-focused interpretation which has been well received by visitors and the museum sector. Ian is a graduate of the Universities of Stirling and Leicester and his main research interest is in the history of radar, which...Brown, Ian
Radar in Scotland 1938-46, Radio Detection And Ranging (RADAR), early warning system, history of radar, and Radio Detection Finding (RDF)
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Journal article
Diversification history and morphological evolution of larks
Larks (Alaudidae) constitute one of the avian families best adapted to xeric environments, having colonized a wide suite of open habitats including deserts. Although their highest diversity is in Africa, larks occur on all nonpolar continents. We tested whether larks exhibit exceptional and/or correlated shifts in the tempos of speciation...García-Navas, Vicente ; Stervander, Martin ; Alström, Per
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Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2023
This is a supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography covering taxa described or recorded during 2023, plus a couple of earlier records that were missed previously. Up to the end of 2023, 2,781 species have been recorded from Kachin amber, of which 244 were named in 2023;...Ross, Andrew J
Invertebrates , Cretaceous, Plants, Myanmar , Arachnids, Burmese Amber , and Insects