Need your heritage fix this summer? We have rounded up all the best heritage, museum and history events for you in one handy place! Exhibitions Discover how today’s fashion industry is challenging perceptions and championing alternative ideals of beauty on the catwalk, in advertising, editorial and behind the camera at The National Museum of Scotland,…
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The Winter Lowdown: January-March
It’s cold, I’m overweight, and my liver is screaming at me to stop drinking. This can only mean one thing… It’s January! I am in the very fortunate position that I LOVE my job, but my first Monday back in the office was not easy, the Christmas fog caused by gluttony and slothful behaviour had…
Exhibition Review: Modern Scottish Women, Scottish Gallery of Modern Art
On a sunny/rainy/humid Scottish summers day, the History Girls made their way through the crowds of Princes Street to the relative calm of the Scottish Galleries of Modern Art, known as Modern One & Two. The Modern Scottish Women exhibition at Modern Two closes on the 26th of June, so we decided to do a…
Spring Lowdown: What to do now it isn’t so cold
Spring has well and truly sprung! There are daffodils everywhere I look, and it has even been vaguely mild. I have taken the serious step of putting away all my thickest winter jumpers and replaced them with my lighter knitwear. Knitwear is still necessary, because I live in Scotland, and I’m a realist. So, you’re…
Photography: A Victorian Sensation Exhibiton Review
Last weekend I went off to Edinburgh to FINALLY visit the Victorian Photography exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland. It’s one of their big yins, and it is held upstairs in their temporary exhibition space. I do adore the Victorians, they are totally insane and so I was very much looking forward to what these…
The October Lowdown: Top 5 things to do this month
October is my favourite month of the year, not just because it’s my birthday, but because it’s Halloween, it’s winter coat buying time, it’s Strictly and Downton and Oscar-bait-movie watching time! There’s also some exhibitions on and that. So, here is the History Girl Lowdown for the month, and as we say here in Scotland, have…
Glasgow’s Stained Glass: Colour & Light
Exhibition Launch Venue: 54 Bell Street Date: 12th December 2014 Time: 4pm Glasgow City Heritage Trust presents Glasgow’s Stained Glass: Colour & Light. In September an ambitious three month project began to create an online database of Glasgow’s stained glass in conjunction with the Scottish Stained Glass Trust and RCAHMS. To celebrate the culmination of this…
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