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International Conference

Renaissance?
Perceptions of Continuity & Discontinuity in Europe, c.1300-c.1550


31st August – 1st September 2007 • University of Edinburgh

Further information and booking:
renaissance@ed.ac.uk
or Alex Lee alexlee37@yahoo.co.uk

Harry Schnitker h_schnitker@btinternet.com

www.shc.ed.ac.uk/conferences/



Advance Notice - Conference

The Scottish Cultural Diaspora

Annual Conference of the 18th-Century Scottish Studies Society

Halifax, Nova Scotia
26–29 June 2008
Hosted by Dalhousie University

Enquiries: Prof. Richard B. Sher
Executive Secretary, ECSSS
sher@njit.edu

www.ecsss.org

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EXHIBITIONS

Groam House Museum Exhibitions

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George Bain – A Highland Homecoming is a Highland-wide, touring exhibition which brings together selected items from the Museum's own collection of Bain's works with previously unseen items to a variety of Highland galleries. The exhibition has already visited Thurso, Wick and Kingussie where it has drawn significant levels of interest.

Theory into Practice: George Bain and his Celtic Art Revival is a year-long exhibition on display within Groam House Museum, which features metalwork and jewellery objects specially loaned by the National Museums of Scotland as well as items from Groam House Museum's Bain collection.

Remaining Exhibition Dates:

'Theory into Practice'
Groam House Museum, Rosemarkie: 1 May 2007 – 2008

'A Highland Homecoming'
Glenurquhart Community School, Drumnadrochit:
26 June – 22 September
Timespan, Helmsdale: 29 September – 27 October

For further information on the exhibitions, workshops and
lectures, please visit: www.groamhouse.org.uk
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Acts of Union Exhibition

Marischal Museum University of Aberdeen

until 31 August

Drawing exclusively on the University of Aberdeen's historic collections, Acts of Union explores the political, religious and economic factors that helped create the new kingdom of Great Britain on 1 May, 1707.

The University's collections contain a wealth of material on how the Union was discussed and debated in Scotland and a selection of books, manuscripts, portraits and objects provide a narrative for this fascinating story. The exhibition views the Union as a long process rather than focussing on the political event. It shows that a union between Scotland and England was proposed throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and then looks at the divisive impact of the eventual political agreement of 1707 on Scotland and the city of Aberdeen.

Two key displays encapsulating the depth of reaction to the alliance between Scotland and England over the following 40 years are included. The first is a set of 300-year-old lecture notes - belonging to Marischal College student John Forbes - adorned with drawings of two ships, one flying a Scottish saltire and the other a union flag. The second display is a German-made, double-edged Jacobite sword engraved on both sides. One shows the figure of St Andrew wearing a mitre and holding a cross with the inscription "Prosperity/to/ Schotland/&No Union", and on the other there appears the figure of King James VIII and III.

"Together they highlight on the one hand the extreme, military reaction to the Union in the shape of the Jacobite Rebellions and then the more contemplative, cerebral process that was happening at the same time," said University of Aberdeen history lecturer Dr Andrew Mackillop, who co-curated the exhibition. "The drawings especially are unique and give a powerful and intimate glimpse into how the union was being contemplated by an ordinary student."

A virtual version of the exhibition is available on the Historic Collections web pages:
www.abdn.ac.uk/marischalmuseum

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Exhibiton
Fonn's Duthchas: Land and Legacy

National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 29 June – 2 September 2007
Museum nan Eilean, Stornoway 21 September – 1 December 2007

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