‘Mary’ Christmas everybody! From spectacular festive parties to tragedy and imprisonment, drama was never far away during a Christmas with…
In today’s blog, we are getting into the festive spirit and bringing you some of the best entries of our…
In today’s blog Anthony Lewis, Curator of Scottish History at Glasgow Life Museums, tells us about Glasgow’s long history of…
Christmas is approaching and we are getting into the festive spirit and launching our own craft challenge – we invite…
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, Michelle Craig, Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar at the University of Glasgow, explores Marian books in the library…
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.