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2009
Doctoral thesis
Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767-1852) as patron and collector
This thesis examines the patronage and collecting of Alexander, l0th Duke of Hamilton, premier peer of Scotland, son-in-law of the maniacal collector William Beckford, and arguably the greatest collector in the history of Scotland. Using archival evidence from many sources, it begins with investigations of the Duke's early collecting of...Evans, Godfrey
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2020
Journal article
Review of: Trevor Royle, Facing the Bear: Scotland and the Cold War
In 1964 Alexander MacIntyre of Strone designed a tartan for the personnel of the American Submarine base at the Holy Loch. The tartan is registered as ‘Polaris Military’ after the infamous nuclear missile carried by the US Navy's ballistic missile submarines, and includes navy blue to represent the naval uniform,...Alberti, S J M M
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2021
Journal article
Angela Milner (1947–2021)
Far-sighted palaeontologist who guided the Dinosaur Gallery at London’s Natural History Museum, with interests in dinosaurs, early tetrapods and palaeoneurology.Walsh, Stig
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2021
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Calligraphy and Middle Eastern Literature
Friederike Voigt is Principal Curator at National Museums Scotland, responsible for the collections from West, South and Southeast Asia. Much of her research centres around the museum’s acquisition history and its relation to the collecting interests of Scots in the 18th and 19th centuries. She is a specialist in 19th...Voigt, Friederike
Festival, Muslim, Islam, and Literature