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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
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
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
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
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 Object
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photograph from fieldwork undertaken at the German Spy museumNational 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 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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"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 Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Cold War exhibition, medal, and Cold War
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
espionage, Cold War, and Cold War label
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
GDR, Cold War exhibition, and Cold War
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
Cold War Museum, Cold War, and Dresden
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Cold War, Cold War Museum, and Dresden
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Book chapter
‘Found in store’: Working with source communities and difficult objects at Durham University’s Oriental Museum
Rachel Barclay Lauren Barnes Gillian Ramsay Craig Barclay Helen Armstrong Durham University’s Oriental Museum is often described as a ‘hidden gem’. Opened in 1960, today it is home to world-class collections of more than 35,000 objects from across North Africa and Asia. Originally envisioned as a teaching and research resource...Barclay, Rachel ; Barnes, Lauren ; Ramsay, Gillian ; Barclay, Craig ; Armstrong, Helen
Colonialism, Asia, Durham University , Africa , Oriental Museum, and collections
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Journal article
The Life of Mary Anning, Fossil Collector of Lyme Regis: a Contemporary Biographical Memoir by George Roberts
Despite the modern celebrity of the fossil collector Mary Anning (1799–1847) of Lyme Regis and her frequent use as an icon in scientific education and popularization, there are few accounts of her life by her contemporaries. We report here a previously unpublished anonymous manuscript memoir of Anning's life, in the...Taylor, Michael A ; Benton, Michael J
George Roberts, Lyme Regis, Athenæum, and Mary Anning obituary
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Book chapter
Stone tools
The excavations at Lower Callerton revealed a multiphase Iron Age settlement consisting of 53 structures, multiple enclosures and linear boundaries which extended beyond the excavated area (Fig. 4.1). The activity was concentrated within Area 2, which measured c. 4.6 ha, with the removal of the topsoil revealing a settlement extending...Hunter, Fraser
Lower Callerton, excavations, settlement, Iron Age , and Stone tools
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Collecting a New Past
Museums have long been interested in collecting material culture of the present. Objects that demonstrate the design, technological, natural, and social stories and changes of today. More recently, ‘contemporary collecting’ has been given renewed attention as a specific approach to building museum collections. Georgia Vullinghs, Curator of Modern and Contemporary...Vullinghs, Georgia
Collections , Community Engagement, Contemporary Collecting, and Conservation
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Journal article
Range-wide whole-genome resequencing of the brown bear reveals drivers of intraspecies divergence
Population-genomic studies can shed new light on the effect of past demographic processes on contemporary population structure. We reassessed phylogeographical patterns of a classic model species of postglacial recolonisation, the brown bear ( ), using a range-wide resequencing dataset of 128 nuclear genomes. In sharp contrast to the erratic geographical...de Jong, Menno J ; Niamir, Aidin ; Wolf, Magnus ; Kitchener, Andrew C ; Lecomte, Nicolas …
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Two new species of European Microgaster Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with host data on some further species
Two new European species of are described from reared material. parasitizes species (Depressariidae) on and in Britain, and a key is provided to separate it from two other British species that parasitize other , with host information. ., a parasitoid of (Noctuidae), is described from Austrian specimens. The host repertoires... -
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Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2022
This is a supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography covering taxa described or recorded during 2022, plus a couple of earlier records that were missed previously. Up to the end of 2022, 2,524 species have been recorded from Kachin amber, of which 350 were named in 2022;...Ross, Andrew J
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Notes on the three species of Cotesia Cameron, 1891 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Microgastrinae) parasitizing Gonepteryx [Leach, 1815] species (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) in Europe, with description of a new species from the Balearic Islands
Shaw & Colom sp. nov. is described as a solitary endemic parasitoid of in the Balearic Islands. A key is given to the three known parasitoids of in Europe, and biological notes are given for each species. Some new country records are given.Shaw, Mark R ; Colom, Pau
GONEPTERYX, GONEPTERYX RHAMNI, COTESIA GONOPTERYGIS, FRANCE, PHENOLOGY, REARING RECORDS, COTESIA RISILIS, SWEDEN, SPAIN, CLEOPATRA, and COTESIA BALEARICA
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Interview (radio, television)
Moby the sperm whale interview
In Edinburgh, Iolo Williams and Gillian Burke remain on the coast for a cetacean celebration before saying goodbye to the wild badger sett they’ve been following all series.Kitchener, Andrew C
contemporary collecting, cetacean collections, skull, Physeter catodon (sperm whale), and whale stranding
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Interview (radio, television)
Value of urban green spaces for overwintering insects
Iolo Williams and Gillian Burke meet some urban mammals in Edinburgh, indulging in a look at some of the macro marvels that call the cemetery home.Whiffin, Ashleigh
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Interview (radio, television)
Research on urban and rural red foxes
In Edinburgh, Gillian Burke and Iolo Williams head into a cemetery to see the wildlife that uses these city habitats as a haven.Cooper, David
archeological record , feeding animals, urban foxes, messaging, climate change, sustainability, and human/animal interaction