Jewellery, Text, Societal, Art, and Political

Exchange, African, Caribbean and South Asian diaspora heritage communities, Museology, Colonial Histories and Legacies, and Collections Research

Old English rune, Viking-age collections, Anglo-Saxon runes, Early Medieval Scotland, Runic inscription, The Croy Hoard, and Bronze balance beam

cult, metal detecting, Medieval Scotland, Fordham, Cambridgeshire, pilgrim badges, Portable Antiquities Scheme, and Saint Margaret of Scotland

‘taken in action’, British armed forces, Indian Uprising, 1857-58, military, Royal Scottish Museum, General Godfrey Pearse , eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, ‘captured’ , traditions, codes and practices, looting , South Asian collections , spolia opima, Kunwar Singh, colonial histories, silver artefacts, and colonial military campaigns

museum, Research , Royal Institution, preservation and study, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, archaeological and historical collections, Society Of Antiquaries Of Scotland, Archives , and acquisition data analysis

material culture, human remains, reuse, materials, prehistoric archaeological record, recreation, and re-appropriation

coins, Rome mint, military campaigns in Scotland, and Septimius Severus

Arctic life, The Tytler collection, Lady John Scott, Imperial war art, museum, scientific instruments, Collecting stories, Treasure Trove, and Scotland

Textile , Mineralisation, Silver, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Microscopy, Copper corrosion, Viking age, and Anglo-Saxon