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Conference paper (unpublished)
“The best South Asian holdings outside London”: Opportunity and Challenges in a dependent relationship, 1854 to 2023
The paper compares the life and significance of the South Asian collection at the Scottish National Museum in the second half of the 19th century and in the 21st century. From its founding and over the first thirty years, the Edinburgh Museum, similarly to Dublin, experienced a largely dependent relationship...Voigt , Friederike
National Museums Scotland, South Asian collections, material culture, colonial histories and legacies, relevance , South Kensington Museum, and Imperialism
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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
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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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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Book chapter
“A Crown of Everlasting Glory”: The Afterlife of Maria Clementina Sobieska in Material and Visual Culture
Maria Clementina Sobieska was the last widely recognised Stuart queen, albeit in exile, and mother to the final generation of the Stuart dynasty. Examining the material and visual culture surrounding her funeral and afterlife, this chapter reinstates Clementina in Jacobite and Stuart history. It also considers the papal role in...Vullinghs, Georgia
Jacobites, visual culture, material culture, Royal funerals, Queenship, and Stuarts
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Book chapter
Analysis of the Fettercairn Jewel and comparative Scottish Renaissance jewellery
Renaissance jewellery pieces often demonstrate highly developed artistic and technological skills and combine precious gemstones, pearls, gold, translucent and opaque enamels to reflect an individual's wealth, social status or political loyalties.1 Although there has been significant research published on Renaissance jewellery from an art historical point of view, the amount...Troalen, Lore
Scottish history, Renaissance,, jewellery history, material culture, and analytical data
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Book chapter
The Mystery of the Fettercairn Jewel
When the Fettercairn Jewel was discovered wrapped in paper at the back of a drawer at Fettercairn House, Aberdeenshire, in 2017. It was quickly recognised as an astounding piece of late sixteenth-century jewellery. But with little recorded provenance, and no obvious clues to its early history, it posed many questions.Wyld, Helen
jewellery history, material culture, Scottish history, art history, and Renaissance
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Book
Decoding the jewels: Renaissance jewellery in Scotland
For the first time, National Museums Scotland’s important collection of Renaissance jewellery from Scotland is considered together alongside significant jewels from the Royal Collection and elsewhere. The book was inspired by the acquisition by NMS of the extraordinary Fettercairn Jewel: the fine iconography of this exquisitely enamelled locket held coded...Groundwater, Anna
Stuarts, material culture, art history, jewellery history, Mary Queen of Scots, objects, Renaissance, and Scottish history