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Author: Alicia Hughes

What was Christmas like for Mary Queen of Scots?

December 25, 2020 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

‘Mary’ Christmas everybody! From spectacular festive parties to tragedy and imprisonment, drama was never far away during a Christmas with…

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‘Mary’-making with Mary

December 24, 2020 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

In today’s blog, we are getting into the festive spirit and bringing you some of the best entries of our…

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Mary, Queen of Scots Collections: Glasgow Life Museums

December 8, 2020 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

In today’s blog Anthony Lewis, Curator of Scottish History at Glasgow Life Museums, tells us about Glasgow’s long history of…

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Posted in: Eighteenth Century, Exhibitions, General Background, Images, Mary, Nineteenth Century, Objects, Painting, Sir Walter Scott, Uncategorized, Victorian

Mary Queen of Scots Christmas Ornament Craft Challenge

December 7, 2020 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

Christmas is approaching and we are getting into the festive spirit and launching our own craft challenge – we invite…

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A “little second-hand lustre”: dressing as Mary in the Victorian age

December 1, 2020 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

In today’s blog Sally Tuckett, Lecturer in Dress and Textile History (History of Art) at the University of Glasgow and…

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Posted in: Fashion, Mary's Clothes and Jewellery, Nineteenth Century, Objects, Sir Walter Scott, Uncategorized, Victorian

The Reception and Transmission of Mary Queen of Scots by Robert Burns and Walter Scott

November 24, 2020 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

In today’s blog, Professor Gerard Caruthers, Francis Hutcheson Chair of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, traces sympathetic interest in…

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Posted in: Books, Drama, Eighteenth Century, General Background, Jaocbitism, Mary, Music, Opera, Robert Burns, Romantic, Romanticism, Sir Walter Scott, TV and Film

Mary, Queen of Strips

November 17, 2020 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

In today’s blog, Laurence Grove, Professor of French and Text/Image Studies at the University of Glasgow, traces depictions of Mary…

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Posted in: Books, Comic books, Comic books, Images, Mary Filed under: Images

Mary, Queen of Scots in the library of Dr William Hunter (1718-83)

November 10, 2020 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

In today’s blog, Michelle Craig, Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar at the University of Glasgow, explores Marian books in the library…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: catalogues, collecting, library, provenance, William Hunter

Letters as Objects

October 1, 2020 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

In today’s blog, Jade Scott (Ph.D student at University of Glasgow) and Alison Wiggins (Reader in English Language and Manuscripts…

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Posted in: Exhibitions, Letters, Mary, Objects

Identity and authenticity: a newly discovered contemporary portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots

September 29, 2020 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

In today’s blog, Dr Caroline Rae, Lecturer in Technical Art History, University of Glasgow (former Caroline Villers Research Fellow, Courtauld…

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Posted in: Exhibitions, Mary, Objects, Painting

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