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 Sally Tuckett, Lecturer in Dress and Textile History (History of Art) at the University of Glasgow and…
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.
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.
In today’s blog, Dr Alison Rosie (Registrar | National Register of Archives for Scotland) examines the surviving accounts of Mary’s clothes and jewels, where they might have come from, and what they might have looked like.