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Book chapter

New data on the ‘giant’ obolid fauna (Brachiopoda) from the Armorican Quartzite facies (Lower Ordovician) of the Iberian Peninsula

Candela, Yves ; Gutiérrez-Marco, J C ; Sá, A A

systematics, Scotland, museum collections, North Esk Inlier, and palaeontology

Journal article

Manpower, myth and memory: analysing Scotland's military contribution to the Great War

The aim of this article is to determine what conclusions the available sources allow us to make about the nature of Scottish service and sacrifice in the Great War. The article finds that contemporary sources do not lend themselves well to statistical analysis of Scotland's manpower contribution in the Great...

Watt, Patrick

Great War, Royal Navy, losses, statistics, Scotland, myth, British Army, Royal Flying Corps, memory, and military

Journal article

Synoptic revision of the Silurian fauna from the Pentland Hills, Scotland described by Lamont (1978)

Archibald Lamont (1907-1985) sampled the North Esk Inlier Silurian fauna for almost 30 years. He had amassed a substantial fauna that has been, in part, bequeathed to the National Museums Scotland after his death. Unfortunately, the descriptions of the faunas in his last opus were careless and the illustrations were...

Candela, Yves ; Crighton, William R B

systematics, Scotland, museum collections, North Esk Inlier, and palaeontology

Journal article

Art treasures were sold as palace vanished from sight

The demolition of Hamilton Palace at Hamilton in South Lanarkshire in the 1920s and the dispersal of its treasures in two sales in 1882 and 1919 was a national tragedy.

Evans, Godfrey

Scotland, mausoleum, Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton, Hamilton Palace, and Scottish