Skip to content

Mary Queen of Scots Project

  • The Project
  • In Search of Mary Queen of Scots – Blog
  • Further Reading

In Search of Mary Queen of Scots – Blog

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…

Continue Reading →

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 Leave a comment

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

Continue Reading →

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

Queens bearing gifts: The material legacy of the Marian Court in the V&A

May 27, 2021 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

In today’s blog, Freya Purcell (Design historian and Victoria & Albert Museum/Royal College of Art History of Design Masters graduate)…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Museums, Objects, Uncategorized

‘Some Lassie, eh?’: Popular Perceptions of Mary, Queen of Scots in 21st century Scotland

May 18, 2021 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

Next up in our blog series on ‘Teaching Mary’ is Ashley Thompson (University of Glasgow History graduate and Glasgow Women’s…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Education, Twenty-first Century, Uncategorized

Memorialising Mary as Martyr

May 11, 2021 Alicia Hughes 1 Comment

In today’s blog, Elinor Vickers, Curator at the Scottish Catholic Heritage Collections Trust (also known as Blairs Museum) explores how…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Exhibitions, Fashion, Images, Mary, Mary's Personal Items, Museums, Objects, Painting, Uncategorized

Teaching Mary: Mary, Queen of Scots public programmes at the National Museum of Scotland, June to November 2013

April 28, 2021 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

In the first of series of posts on ‘Teaching Mary in the 21st Century’, Emma Webb and Rachel Drury (members…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Education, Museums, Uncategorized

“Righteous Heir”: Mary, Queen of Scots and James, the duke of Albany and York, 1679-1682

April 23, 2021 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

In today’s blog, Dr Laura Doak (Charlotte Nicholson Fellow in History at the University of Glasgow) explores the parallels between…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Books, Mary

Making her Mortal: Mary, Queen of Scots and the scholarship of David Hay Fleming (1849-1931)

April 15, 2021 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

In today’s blog, Dr Catriona M.M. Macdonald (University of Glasgow) explores the response of historian David Hay Fleming’s to nineteenth-century…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Books, Mary, Nineteenth Century, Uncategorized, Victorian

Mary, Queen of Drag?

March 24, 2021 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

In today’s blog, Queer Artist and Academic, Daniel Fountain, explores the significance of drag in celebrating identity and Scottish heritage, as well as the enduring iconography associated…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Fashion, Images, Uncategorized

Re-imagining Mary, Queen of Scots in contemporary Scottish women’s writing

March 8, 2021 Alicia Hughes Leave a comment

To celebrate Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day 2021, Nia Clark, doctoral researcher in Scottish Literature at the University…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Books, Drama, Images, Mary, Painting, Poetry, Theatre, Uncategorized

Post navigation

Page 1 of 5
1 2 … 5 Next →

Terms and conditions     Privacy notice

Copyright © 2023 Mary Queen of Scots Project