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.
In this week’s vlog, Steven Reid looks at Mary’s brief stint as a Disney princess in a short cartoon from 1957, which was nominated for an Oscar.
In this vlog, Dr Steven Reid of the University of Glasgow compares two early biographies of Elizabeth I and Mary…