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Project search results for location: 'Lothian'
Number of projects retrieved: 691 Records 637 to 642[0078] Exploring Everyday Objects (multimedia essay)
A look at the evolution of product design using everyday artefacts as examples.
Keywords: Design, Technology, Enterprise, Heritage
Location of Project Material: All over Scotland
[0077] A History of The Scottish People, 1450 - 1840 (multimedia essay)
This project explores change and continuity in the economic, social, cultural and political development of Scotland from c. 1450 to c. 1840.
Keywords: Social History, Economy, Politics, Industry, Agriculture, audio
Location of Project Material: All over Scotland
[0076] The Sound of Scottish Writers
This project digitises a selection of a unique archive of modern Scottish writers, some now deceased, reading their own work. The basis of the project is 200 poems in Scots, English and Gaelic by writers such as Sheena Blackhall, Flora Garry, Sorley Maclean, William Neill, Tom Scott and others. Part II of this project, project 0167, features a further 101 poems.
Keywords: Writing, Literature, Poetry, Language, Scots, Gaelic, Sheena Blackhall, Flora Garry, Sorley Maclean, William Neill, Tom Scott, audio
Location of Project Material: All over Scotland, Strathclyde
[0075] The Herring Fishing Industry of the Clyde Sea Area (multimedia essay)
This project looks at aspects of the traditional herring industry in Scotland, focusing on the Clyde Sea area, serving as a comparative study of different traditions in Scotland and Europe.
Keywords: Fishing, Herring, Fish, Clyde, Sea, Industry
Location of Project Material: Strathclyde
[0073] Jenners, Edinburgh: An Independent Department Store From 1838
This project illustrates important aspects of Scottish social history by providing images of the development of Jenners Department Store from the archives of Edinburgh City Library. Departments such as fashion, furnishings, toys and Christmas gifts are illustrated.
Keywords: Jenners, Department Store, Retail, Shop, Princes Street, Social History, Fashion, Toys, Christmas
Location of Project Material: Lothian
[0071] Patrick Geddes
This project enhances existing material on Patrick Geddes, the "father of town planning" and Scottish ecologist, thinker and educationalist.
Keywords: Patrick Geddes, Town Planning, Ecology
Location of Project Material: Lothian
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