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Gifts for a Jacobite prince
David S Forsyth explores the history of three18th-century objects which form the centrepiece of a major new Jacobite exhibitionForsyth, David S
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One Theban tomb, 1000 years of burial
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, 'The Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Burial', explores changing funerary practices through the story of one Theban tomb, used and reused for over 1000 years, before it became the first to be systematically excavated and recorded 160 years ago, as curator...Maitland, Margaret
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Recycled objects: curatorial practice and the engagement of contemporary art in the interpretation of historical African figurative sculpture
Through a case study approach those acts of assembling, juxtaposing and exhibiting collections of objects, which constitute the western museum, are analysed as artistic processes which produce the museum as a form of ‘public art’. The paper takes as its fulcrum L’Ange, a contemporary artwork formed from recycled materials by...Swinney, Geoffrey N
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International network of scholars to explore the role of silver in Early Medieval Europe
A major grant awarded to National Museums Scotland will allow historians to explore the role that silver played in the emergence of the Early Medieval kingdoms of Europe.Blackwell, Alice
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In memoriam Alan Saville, 31 Dec 1946–19 June 2016
Sheridan, J A
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How can science be better communicated in museums?
Phillipson, Tacye
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The tomb: Ancient Egytian burial
The Tomb presents the story of an extraordinary ancient Egyptian tomb, built around 1290BC in the city of Thebes for a Chief of Police and his wife, and reused for over 1000 years. It was sealed shortly after the Roman conquest of Egypt with an intact family burial. When excavated...Maitland, Margaret
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Tennyson and the geologists part 2: saurians and the Isle of Wight
It is often observed that Tennyson’s poetry was profoundly influenced by his reading in astronomy, geology and science in general, and evolutionary thought before and after Darwin. This reflected the period’s intense crossover between science and what would today be called literature. The scientific paper was approaching its modern format,...Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I
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Notes on the brachiopod species from the Silurian of the Pentland Hills described by Lamont (1978)
Four Silurian brachiopod species from the Pentland Hills, previously ignored or designated nomina dubia, require some recognition on the basis of material identified in the collections of the National Museum of Scotland and a closer scrutiny of the published work with respect to the guidelines of the International Commission of...Candela, Yves ; Harper, David A T ; Crighton, William R B
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Panjab Connections: a Young Roots Heritage Project at National Museums Scotland
The Panjab Connections project focused on the fascinating story of Maharaja Duleep Singh, widely regarded as the first Sikh resident in Scotland. He was a Maharaja aged five, but by the age of fifteen Duleep Singh was deposed and exiled to Britain, where he spent his teenage years in Perthshire....Voigt, Friederike ; Nicolson, Rosanna ; Bennison, Laura
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Book chapter
"Cultural presumptions and curatorial context"; reassessing the ‘highland brooch’ of early modern Scotland
While traditional studies of dress and jewellery have tended to focus purely on reconstruction or descriptions of style, chronology and typology, the social context of costume is now a major research area in archaeology. This refocusing is largely a result of the close relationship between dress and three currently popular...Campbell, Stuart
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Celts: Art and Identity
Dr Fraser Hunter FSA Scot, Principal Curator, Iron Age & Roman Collections in the National Museums Scotland, presents a lecture on “Celts: Art and Identity” to coincide with the international exhibition on Celts held in the NMS in collaboration with the British Museum. The lecture was recorded on Monday 11...Hunter, Fraser
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Q&A with Margaret Maitland
Missing fragments of a 15th-century Egyptian box finally returned to NMSDurrans, Alice
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The history of taxidermy at National Museums Scotland
Dr Andrew Kitchener charts the history of taxidermy and explores the extraordinary and sometimes inaccurate specimens produced in t eh 18th and 19th centuries.Kitchener, Andrew C
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Expand to contract
McLean, Christine
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National Museums Scotland
Next of Kin's flexible design allowed it to tour Scotland and unearth stories about the first world warSohn-Rethel, Jo
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Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial
While the ancient Egyptians’ hope for eternal life remained constant, their burial practices were ever-changing. Dr Margaret Maitland, senior curator at National Museums Scotland, charts the remarkable changes in Egyptian tombs and the extraordinary objects that filled them…Maitland, Margaret
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Finding patients in the Medical Museum
Alberti, S J M M
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On the NMS Masterplan
Staubermann, Klaus
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Review of Anatomy Museum: death and the body displayed by Elizabeth Hallam
Sam Alberti dissects an accessible book on the ins and outs of displaying human remainsAlberti, S J M M
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James Ferguson's misidentified coin balance
Phillipson, Tacye
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Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna
The end-Devonian to mid-Mississippian time interval has long been known for its depauperate palaeontological record, especially for tetrapods. This interval encapsulates the time of increasing terrestriality among tetrapods, but only two Tournaisian localities previously produced tetrapod fossils. Here we describe five new Tournaisian tetrapods (Perittodus apsconditus, Koilops herma, Ossirarus kierani, Diploradus austiumensis and Aytonerpeton microps)...Clack, Jennifer A ; Bennett, Carys E ; Carpenter, David K ; Davies, Sarah J ; Fraser, Nicholas C …
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Material characterization and preservation guidance for a collection of prosthetic limbs developed since 1960
National Museums Scotland has collections relating to many areas of science and technology, including medical science. This paper considers technical and conservation issues of an important collection of more than 150 prosthetic limbs. Much of the collection is of prosthetics developed for children born lacking or with malformed upper limbs...Smith, Margaret J ; Kirk, Susanna ; Tate, Jim ; Cox, Darren
Bioengineering, Museum display and storage, Thalidomide, FTIR, Polymer degradation, XRF, Preservation of mixed materials, and Prosthetics
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Dagron’s stanhope “jewels”
Phillipson, Tacye
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Forgotten gems: microphotographs as jewellery
Phillipson, Tacye
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Golden fantasies: Japanese screens from New York collections, exhibition catalogue
Folding screens are luxuriously beautiful and uniquely designed pictorial compositions that present the social and cultural ideals of their time. Golden Fantasies assembles superb examples of folding screens, many from private New York collections and previously unseen by the public. The works in this exhibition fall into three broad categories:...Buckland, Rosina
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The legacy of nineteenth-century replicas for object cultural biographies: lessons in duplication from 1830s Fife
The St Andrews Sarcophagus and Norrie's Law hoard are two of the most important surviving Pictish relics from early medieval Scotland. The entanglement of their later biographies is also of international significance in its own right. Soon after discovery in nineteenth-century Fife, both sets of objects were subject, in 1839,...Foster, Sally M ; Blackwell, Alice ; Goldberg, D Martin
facsimiles, early photography, Norrie's Law hoard, St Andrews Sarcophagus, entanglement, and plaster casts
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New Collecting Awards: modernist jewellery
Earlier this year Sarah Rothwell won funding from the New Collecting Awards to develop a collection of modernist jewellery at National Museums Scotland. Here, she writes about her research so far.Rothwell, Sarah
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"Keep your powder dry": Mementoes of 1715
Breignan, Adrienne
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Focus on: biomedical interactives
Phillipson, Tacye
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Partnership is key to sharing treasures of the nation
Burns, Jilly
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Book chapter
Scottish Neolithic pottery in 2016: the big picture and some details of the narrative
This contribution summarises our present state of knowledge about Scottish Neolithic pottery, emphasising its dual origins in the Continental Middle Neolithic ceramic traditions of Brittany and the northernmost part of France, and tracing the subsequent expansion in its use within Scotland and some of the complexities of its developmental trajectories....Sheridan, J A
Scotland, ceramic traditions, Grooved Ware, pottery terminology, Castellic, Carinated Bowl, Impressed Wares, Neolithic, and pottery
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Book chapter
The colour purple: lithomarge artefacts in northern Britain
This paper revisits an artefact type, lithomarge beads, last studied 40 years ago by Stevenson and Collins (1976). The rare purple colour produced by the naturally occurring mixture of haematite and kaolinite is the key characteristic and made this material desirable. Lithomarge beads are widely distributed across Northern Britain, but...Goldberg, D Martin
colour, lithomarge, purple, Iron Age, jewellery, Early Medieval, and Roman
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Mary Boyle (1881-1974): the Abbé Breuil’s faithful fellow-worker
This paper looks at the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Boyle, a Scotswoman and poet who by chance found her way into archaeology, firstly through meeting and working with Miles Burkitt and then, most importantly, by her encounter in 1920 with the Abbé Henri Breuil, the famous French prehistorian,...Saville, Alan
Henri Breuil, history of archaeology, Miles Burkitt, Scottish poetry, prehistoric art, and Mary Boyle
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‘Coal money’ from Portpatrick (south-west Scotland): reconstructing an Early Medieval craft centre from antiquarian finds
Late 19th and 20th-century finds of debris from shale bangle manufacture at Portpatrick in south-west Scotland occasioned considerable interest at the time. The early discoveries were found in grave-digging, giving rise to folk traditions of the material as ‘coal money’ placed with the departed, but these were soon dismissed by...Hunter, Fraser
bangles, antiquarian study, Early Medieval, Irish connections, Oil shale, and craft processes
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Gleaming eyes and the elaboration of Anglo-Saxon sculpture
This paper presents the results of the analysis of an Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft fragment from Aberlady, East Lothian that confirm the long-suspected belief that the drilled eye sockets found among Northumbrian and Mercian sculpture originally contained separate eye insets. A tin lining was positively identified in one of the drilled eye...Blackwell, Alice
polychromy, colour, iconography, Early Medieval, sculpture, Anglo-Saxon, and Insular
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George Wilson's Map of Technology: giving shape to the ‘industrial arts’ in mid-nineteenth-century Edinburgh
An intriguing symbol adorns the grave, in Edinburgh's Old Calton Burial Ground, of George Wilson (1818–1859), Britain's first Professor of Technology. Wilson himself had devised the symbol as an emblem for the Industrial Museum of Scotland of which he was Director. In his professorial role he defined and delineated the...Swinney, Geoffrey N
technological education, Industrial Museum of Scotland, National Museums Scotland, geographies of science, collections, and teaching
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Ancient lives: object, people and place in Early Scotland. Essays for David V Clarke on his 70th birthday
Ancient Lives provides new perspectives on object, people and place in early Scotland and beyond. The 19 papers cover topics ranging from the Neolithic to the Medieval period, and from modern museum practice to ancient craft skills. The material culture of ancient lives is centre stage – how it was... -
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‘Thanks to you the best has been made of a bad job’: Vere Gordon Childe and the Bronze Age cairn at Ri Cruin, Kilmartin, Argyll & Bute
Ri Cruin is one of the series of Early Bronze Age cairns that make up the well-known linear cemetery in Kilmartin Glen, Argyll. The aim of this short paper is to make more fully accessible and account of the work undertaken by Gordon Childe in the summer of 1936 when...Cowie, Trevor
Kilmartin Glen, cairn, Vere Gordon Childe, Bronze Age, Argyll, and Ri Cruin