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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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School microscopes in the Sixties.
Nuttall, R H
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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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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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National treasure looks to future to preserve the past
Landmark museum building goes from strength to strength, with a £14m third phase of restoration to be opened in 2016, says Gordon RintoulRintoul, Gordon
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Treasures of the National Museums Scotland, 4
Manley, W P
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Katharine Coleman
Watban, Rose
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Supernatural power dressing
Jewellery from Bronze Age graves is normally interpreted as a symbol of status. Howevr, materials like jet, amber, faience and tin were also worn as talismans, writes Alison Sheridan When archaeologists found the 4,300-year-old burial of an archer and metalworker at Amesbury in Wiltshire last year, they knew at once...Sheridan, J A ; Shortland, A
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Mild hobbies and their legacies
This paper looks at the nature and trajectory of Dr John Rae collection in the institutional context of the National Museums Scotland. In a letter of 1878, Rae noted that his hobby was ‘in a very mild way, natural history’. As Jonathan King notes, Rae’s collection is diverse reflecting changing...Lidchi, Henrietta
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The Niddrie Marischal sundial
Morrison-Low, A D
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Lestricus secalis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cenocoeliina), a genus and species new to Britain
Lestricus secalis (L.) was inadvertently listed as British on the basis of an old speculation but, as there was neither firm evidence nor the existence of any specimen, it was deleted from the British list by Shaw & Huddleston (1991). However, it was suggested by Shaw (1999) that the species...Shaw, Mark R ; Mendel, Howard