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Category: Sir Walter Scott

Singing about Mary: The Story of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda

August 5, 2021 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

In the second and final post in our series on ‘Mary and Music’, today’s blog post by Kirsteen McCue, Professor…

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Posted in: Drama, Eighteenth Century, Mary, Music, Nineteenth Century, Opera, Robert Burns, Romantic, Romanticism, Sir Walter Scott, Theatre, TV and Film, Uncategorized

Singing about Mary: Robert Burns and James Hogg

July 15, 2021 Alicia Hughes 1 Comment

In the first in a series of posts on ‘Mary and Music’, today’s blog post by Kirsteen McCue, Professor of…

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Posted in: Books, Broadsides, Drama, Images, Music, Nineteenth Century, Opera, Robert Burns, Romantic, Romanticism, Sir Walter Scott, Uncategorized

Mary, Queen of Scots Collections: Glasgow Life Museums

December 8, 2020 Alicia Hughes 6 Comments

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

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

December 1, 2020 Alicia Hughes 1 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 4 Comments

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

A Crucifix in the Walter Scott Collection at Abbotsford – did it belong to Mary?

July 14, 2020 Steven Reid Leave a comment

In this vlog Kirsty Archer-Thompson, Collections and Interpretation Manager at the Abbotsford Trust, discusses a crucifix in the collection that supposedly belonged to Mary.

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Posted in: Abbotsford, Built Spaces, Mary, Mary's Personal Items, Objects, Sir Walter Scott Filed under: Abbotsford, Crucifix, Mary Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Scott

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