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Scottish Weapons: crafting and collecting identity
Join our conversation on the issues of provenance, repatriation, collections, and collecting practices, explored through the lens of material culture. This roundtable brings together researchers to discuss these topics as they pertain to the theme of object biographies from the experience of their various professional backgroundsRobertson, Calum
arms and armour , Scottish Weapons, crafting and collecting identity, national collections, and National War Museum Scotland
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Fractured mountains: quartz crystals and the Cairngorms
Dr Sarah Laurenson is Principal Curator of Modern and Contemporary History and Head of the Modern and Contemporary History Section. She is responsible for the Scottish collections representing cultural, social, political, military and domestic history from c.1750 to the present.Laurenson, Sarah
collections, Scottish material culture, mountains, fragmented objects , research, natural environment, and mineralogy
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Lecture
Community-led collecting and the Exchange project
The £250,000 pilot project, entitled Exchange: Community-Led Collections Research, will see funding distributed to galleries, libraries, archives and museums to work with South Asian, African and Caribbean diaspora organisations to answer research questions identified by these community groups. The year-long project will see National Museums Scotland and the National Maritime Museum, London, working as a hub;...Diver, Iona
Scotland, Scotland's material heritage, Colonial legacies, Community-led , Colonial histories, Collecting, Material heritage, and The Exchange project
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Don’t believe the hype: scientific instruments and inflated expectations, 1550-1914
The Tools of Knowledge project is remodelling the legacy Scientific Instrument Makers, Observations and Notes (SIMON) database, and significantly enhancing the information it contains about the scientific instrument trade between 1550-1914. One key aim is to reconnect the persons involved in the craft and trade with the instruments that they...Middle, Sarah ; Butterworth, Alex ; Hay, Duncan ; Higgitt, Rebekah
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Exploring entwined histories through Chinese material culture in Scottish museums
The East Asia Collections in Scottish Museums review by National Museums Scotland has highlighted the impressive presence of Chinese material culture in Scotland. Largely accumulated from the late nineteenth century onwards, they partly reflect the rapid British imperialist expansion into China at the time, as well as the many other...Fraser, Tullia
deed, missionaries , East Asia Collections, Qing-dynasty China, Chinese material culture, University of Aberdeen museum collections, and colonial histories
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Infrastructures for Managing and Publishing Large, Heterogeneous Linked Datasets
A Linked Data approach in Humanities research is likely to produce large, rich, heterogeneous datasets with huge research potential, but how can these datasets be managed and published in a form that is flexible, scalable, interoperable and, ultimately, sustainable? Several infrastructures exist that aim to address this issue, but come...Middle, Sarah ; Hay, Duncan ; Butterworth, Alex
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Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage
Join us to hear about the project ‘Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage: Views from Egypt’ from our visiting Egyptian collaborators, researcher Heba Abd el Gawad and webcomic artist Mohammed Nasser, in conversation with curator Margaret Maitland.Maitland, Margaret
museum, storytelling, Egyptian archaeology, Egyptian heritage, comics, and Decolonization
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Missing, and wishing, and hoping?: Sources for identifying printed books held by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 1780-1830
This paper will analyse the variety of sources available for reconstructing the contents and context of the library available to, frequented by and enhanced by key figures of the Scottish enlightenment. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland was founded in 1780 “to investigate both antiquities and natural and civil history...Dye, Jill
investigation, dispersal, National Museums Scotland Library, archives and special collections, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland , and printed books