In today’s blog Anthony Lewis, Curator of Scottish History at Glasgow Life Museums, tells us about Glasgow’s long history of…
In today’s blog, Professor Gerard Caruthers, Francis Hutcheson Chair of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, traces sympathetic interest in…
In today’s blog, Laurence Grove, Professor of French and Text/Image Studies at the University of Glasgow, traces depictions of Mary…
In today’s blog, Jade Scott (Ph.D student at University of Glasgow) and Alison Wiggins (Reader in English Language and Manuscripts…
In today’s blog, Dr Caroline Rae, Lecturer in Technical Art History, University of Glasgow (former Caroline Villers Research Fellow, Courtauld…
In today’s blog, Emily Wingfield, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham, talks about books of hours…
In today’s blog, Anne Dulau Beveridge, Curator at The Hunterian, reviews the successful workshop on Materialising Mary, which took place…
In today’s blog Emily Hay, an MPhil Scottish Literature research student at the University of Glasgow, looks at the history of wax effigies of Mary, used to educate and entertain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in particular, and at the postcards used to publicise them as Marian ‘artefacts’ in their own right.
In today’s blog Cailean Gallagher, a PhD student in eighteenth century political economy at the University of St Andrews, shares his current research examining Mary’s place in the minds and hearts of Jacobites, focussing on notes made by Sir James Steuart in his commentary on David Hume’s History of England (1759).
Julie Holder looks at the complex and much-revised story of one of the National Museums of Scotland’s most famous Marian objects – the Queen Mary Harp.