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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

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

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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