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  • 2010
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    Sourcing Scottish redwares

    Sourcing Scottish Redwares examines Scotland's extensive iron-rich clay sources which were exploited for the production of pottery, tiles and later bricks, from the 13th century onwards. Supported by Historic Scotland the authors used inductively coupled plasma-mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS) in conjunction with the British Geological Survey's national geochemical database of stream...
    Haggarty, George ;   Hall, Derek ;   Chenery, Simon
  • 2015
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    Photography: A Victorian sensation

    The souvenir book of the exhibition Photography: A Victorian Sensation at National Museums Scotland June-November 2015. It highlights objects in National Museum Scotland's history of photography collections and describes the public excitement over early photography.
    Morrison-Low, A D
  • 2002
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    Qadscharische Bildfliesen im Ethnologischen Museum Berlin, exhibition catalogue

    Das Ethnologische Museum besitzt 25 Fliesen, auf denen Szenen aus dem Alltag in Teheran um 1890 dargestellt sind: Läden im Basar, Handwerker, fliegende Händler und Garköche mit ihrer Kundschaft, Lastträger, Bettler und Derwische. In ihrer Art erinnern diese genrehaften Bilder an historische Fotografien. Unter Einbeziehung zahlreicher, bislang nicht gezeigter Objekte...
    Voigt, Friederike
  • 2016
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    How scientific instruments have changed hands

    This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. The evidence presented here is derived from sources as diverse as contemporary trade literature, through newspaper advertisements, to rarely-surviving inventories, and from the instruments themselves. The picture may not...
    Morrison-Low, A D
  • 2010
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    Amber: the natural time capsule.

    Ross, Andrew
  • 2012
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    The Adult Trichoptera (Caddisflies) of Britain and Ireland.

    Barnard, Peter ;   Ross, Emma
  • 2018
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    Embroidered Stories: Scottish Samplers

    Samplers were embroidered pictures made by girls, and occasionally boys, as part of their education. Scottish samplers are unique with regard to the amount of information that can be gathered from them. They often include the initials of extended family members as well as details of buildings, places and events,...
    Wyld, Helen
  • 2015
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    Illuminating instruments

    This 7th volume in the Artefacts series looks at a number of significant instruments that were created to serve various scientific purposes. The contributors examine the roles these instruments played both as scientific devices developed to advance our knowledge of the world and as cultural artifacts manufactured and used in...
  • 2015
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    Scotland in later prehistoric Europe

    How did Scotland relate to wider European patterns in later prehistory? This key topic is addressed by the papers in this volume, which review recent work on the Scottish later Bronze Age and Iron Age in the light of its neighbours. Authors use the explosion of recent data to investigate...
  • 2004
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    From sickles to circles: Britain and Ireland at the time of Stonehenge

    From Sickles to Circles marks the retirement of Professor Derek Simpson from his Chair at Queen's University of Belfast and brings together both renowned scholars in the field of British prehistoric archaeology and students. The dedication written by Alex Gibson is followed by twenty-two essays that address a variety of...