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Insect Week: Women in Entomology panel discussion
In celebration of Insect Week 2024, join us for a panel discussion highlighting some of the inspirational women in entomology. Inspired by the work of Scottish entomologist and moth collector Alice Blanche Balfour, we’re celebrating moths and some of the impressive women of entomology who passionately dedicated their time to...Whiffin, Ashleigh ; Opitz, Don ; Baird, Katty ; Doherty, Holly
women entomologist , science communication, entomology, moth collecting , Alice Blanche Balfour, Insect Week, and panel discussion
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Doctoral thesis
British collecting in Ethiopia, 1769 to 1972: travellers, military expeditions, museums and royal gifting
The Ethiopian objects found in Britain’s museums and cultural institutions today reflect over two centuries of interconnected history, and multiple shifts in the political, diplomatic, and cultural relationships between the two countries. Through an interdisciplinary approach which draws on Ethiopian Studies, African Art History, Histories of Collecting, Anthropology, and Museum...Watson-Jones , Alexandra Marie
Ethiopia , Colonial collecting , Collecting, Museums , Maqdala , African art , Indigenous agency, Abyssinia , Looting , and Histories of collecting
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Conference paper (unpublished)
From practice to policy: how open research is changing research culture in cultural heritage
The role of the museum (to preserve, interpret and make accessible collections and heritage) means that open access, in the broadest sense, has always been part of our purpose. Organisational research culture at National Museums Scotland has been guided by a longstanding academic tradition, the Nolan principles of public life... -
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The Re-matriation of the House of Ni’isjoohl Memorial Pole to the Nisga’a Nation: A Conservation Perspective
Charles Stable will describe from a conservation perspective the Re-matriation of House of Ni'isjoohl Memorial Pole from National Museums Scotland to the Nisga’a Nation, looking at the practical logistics of physically lowering , removing the pole from its permanent display, transportation and meeting the requirements and understanding sensitivities for both... -
Lecture
Furniture history in Dumfries and Galloway
Stephen Jackson is Senior Curator, Furniture and Woodwork, at National Museums Scotland and the author of Scottish Furniture, 1500-1914. This new book charts the development of furniture making in Scotland and includes several items made in Dumfries and the wider region between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stephen’s lecture will...Jackson, Stephen
Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish furniture, material culture, and furniture making
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Book
Scottish Furniture: 1500 - 1914
Scotland's furniture evolved against a background of social and cultural change that included religious reformation, civil war, union with England and participation in rapidly expanding commercial empire. The contribution of the country's finest workshops has been overlooked in general histories of British furniture and sever decades of scholarly research is... -
Lecture
Scottish Furniture, 1500-1914
n March 2024, National Museums Scotland will publish Scottish Furniture, 1500-1914, the first comprehensive narrative account of furniture-making in Scotland. The author of this new book, Stephen Jackson, has been Senior Curator, Furniture and Woodwork at NMS for over twenty years. In this lecture he will speak about a range...Jackson, Stephen
furniture, Francis Brodie, woodwork, Scotland, arts movements, William Trotter, workshops, and Scottish Furniture
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Journal article
A Potters' Collection - How Scotland became home to a collection of Portuguese Folk Ceramics
In 2022, Ian and Elizabeth Hird of the Kelso Pottery approached National Museums Scotland (NMS) with an offer to donate a collection of Portuguese pottery figures, acquired during visits to a pottery in the ceramic centre of Caldas da Rainha between the 1960s and 1980s. Half of the group of... -
Podcast
Basics 2: Curation with Ashleigh Whiffin
In part two of Taxonomy Basics, Ashleigh Whiffin of National Museums Scotland brings us into the entomology collection to learn the fundamentals of curayion and preservation, including which pins to use, the importance of collection dataWhiffin, Ashleigh
curation, taxonomy, entomological collections, and entomology
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Lecture
Burning down the house: exploring the phenomenon of Early Neolithic ‘halls’ and their destruction
Honours the achievements of Professor Ian Ralston, Emeritus Abercromby Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.Sheridan, J A
halls, Scotland, Early Neolithic buildings, destruction, and Britain and Ireland
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