In today’s blog, Elinor Vickers, Curator at the Scottish Catholic Heritage Collections Trust (also known as Blairs Museum) explores how…
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, 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, 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.
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.
David Forsyth (Principal Curator, Modern and Contemporary Scottish History, National Museums Scotland) discusses his experience of curating the last major Mary exhibit in Scotland, in 2013.