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Journal article
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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Journal article
Insect evolution: the origin of wings
The debate on the evolution of wings in insects has reached a new level. The study of primitive fossil insect nymphs has revealed that wings developed from a combination of the dorsal part of the thorax and the body wall.Ross, Andrew
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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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Lecture
(Re)discovering the Gaulcross Hoard and other early medieval silver
Lecture by Alice Blackwell and Dr Martin Goldberg of National Museums Scotland and Dr Gordon Noble of the University of Aberdeen at the 2015 Archaeological Research in Progress (ARP) conference, Saturday 30 May 2015.Goldberg, D Martin ; Blackwell, Alice ; Noble, Gordon
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Lecture
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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Journal article
Q&A with Margaret Maitland
Missing fragments of a 15th-century Egyptian box finally returned to NMSDurrans, Alice
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Journal article
Scottish History at National Museums Scotland
Stevenson, Katie
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Journal article
Insights into Portobello: its harbour and its industries
From the 18th century onwards, the town of Portobello was home to a number of thriving industries, including pottery, brick-making and tile-making, each of which have left their traces for archaeologists to investigate.Haggarty, George ; Roy, Mike