Projects

[1157] Museum of the Royal Regiment of Scotland

The Royal Regiment of Scotland was formed in 2006, when The Royal Scots, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, The Royal Highland Fusiliers, The Black Watch, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, The Highlanders, 52nd Lowland and 51st Highland Regiments were amalgamated. The Museum of The Royal Regiment of Scotland is co-located with The Royal Scots Museum in Edinburgh Castle. It displays a number of objects relating to the Regiment's activities since formation in 2006, including artefacts from its operations in Afghanistan as well as clothing and equipment. The images that the Museum has kindly licensed to Scran will be of immense value to schools and colleges as part of the Modern Studies curriculum. 

Keywords: helmet, Taliban, weapons, flags, military, army,

Location of Project Material: Outside Scotland, Central Scotland

[1156] Scran Launches 1997

The Scran website was launched on 25th July 1997 after three years of research and planning. Supported by the Millennium Commission, it digitised Scottish museum, library and archive collections and made them available to subscribers using an innovative licensing scheme. Its founding partners included national Museums Scotland, RCAHMS, Museums Galleries Scotland and, by invitation, the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum. This collection of images from the Scran archive documents some of the people involved in the launch and the events of 1997.

Location of Project Material: Lothian

[1155] Stereoscopic Images of a Scottish Family in Malawi

A remarkable collection of images of a Scottish family in the 1930s, living and growing up in Malawi (then known as Nyasaland) contributed by Annabel Murray, whose stepfather, John Mackinlay de Meza, appears in many of the images. Equally remarkable is the nature of the images; they were originally stereoscopic glass slides that were designed to be viewed using a special wooden viewer that rendered each image in three dimensions- a bit like a ViewMaster children's toy. Scran has digitised these images, preserving the stereoscopic format, and with a suitable VR viewer they can be enjoyed once more as 3-D images.  

Keywords: Africa, 3-D,

Location of Project Material: Outside Scotland

[1154] Hartwich Family Album

A digitised photographic album belonging to the Hartwich family, featuring photos taken in the 1950s and 1960s. They capture the family and friendship network of a German prisoner of war, Erich Wilhelm Hartwich, who remained in Scotland at the end of WW2 and became Head Gardener at Errol Park estate in Perthshire. The captions for the photos in this family album derive from notes made by his daughter, Veronica Hartwich, in conversation with her father.

Location of Project Material: Tayside

[1153] Scenes of Scotland part one

This fascinating collection of images documents various aspects in Scotland, from idyllic rural and island scenes to city scenes. This collection was kindly licensed to Scran by Prof. Cairns Aitken, an academic physician/psychiatrist in Rehabilitation Medicine, who became Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and retired as Vice-Principal at the University of Edinburgh in 1994. He was born in Dunoon, Argyll in 1933. He has had a life-long interest in photography, and in completing projects. He was awarded the CBE in 1998 for his contribution to the Health Services.

Location of Project Material: All over Scotland

[1152] More Italian Visions of Scotland

In January/February 2017, Scran hosted six students from the Istituto Pavoniano Artigianelli per le Arte Grafiche in Trento, Italy. Most were first-time visitors to Scotland, and they were given an assignment to photograph Edinburgh and Glasgow from their own, personal point of view. While they naturally gravitated to some of the better-known landmarks of the cities, they also found time to visit Portobello, the Botanic Gardens and anonymous streets in the cities, and capture details and eye-catching features that might go unnoticed by those that live in Scotland. The photographs that they compiled show their individual viewpoints, and they each captured some striking and unusual images. 

Location of Project Material: Central Scotland