Projects

[0912] Popular Geological Topics

A series of scientifically accurate gouache paintings of common geological features is presented. These unique and detailed illustrations range from typical landforms such as glaciers to features related to plate tectonics and volcanoes and reconstructions of past environments in Britain.

Keywords: Geology, Geomorphology, Landscape

Location of Project Material: All over Scotland, Outside Scotland, Highlands

[0910] Fossil Focus

Fossil ammonites, corals, trilobites, fish, graptolites, bivalves, brachiopods, insects in amber and many other fossils ranging in age from over 600 million years to the present day are illustrated in this project from the British Geological Survey. Accompanying them is a series of five pathfinders that explore fossils through geological time, the use of fossils as geological tools, fossil magic and folklore and extinction and survival - why many species died out in extinctions and why others continued through them unchanged.

Keywords: Geology, Palaeontology

Location of Project Material: All over Scotland, Outside Scotland

[0908] World Religion, Politics, Economics and the Democratic Process

A selection of 1000 images by photographer Gerry McCann, from all around the world, Some of the topics covered are religious pilgrimage, ritual and ceremony, poverty, war, sport, art and music.

Keywords: Photojournalism, photography

Location of Project Material: All over Scotland, Outside Scotland

[0907] Medieval Times

This project looks at aspects of Scottish burghs and their medieval origins. It also looks at settlement and related activities in the Highlands, where ancient ways of life survived for longer than in the Lowlands. Topics range from cattle droving to rural industries, and from house types to a Royal Observer Corps post on a remote hillside.

Location of Project Material: All over Scotland

[0905] The Scotsman Newspaper Photographs, Part II

A selection of photographs as published in The Scotsman and Edinburgh Evening News newspapers from the mid 1960s to the mid 1980s. The topics covered include Scotland at work and leisure, events of national and local importance and scenic views. See also Project 893.

Keywords: Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News, leisure, current affairs, photography

Location of Project Material: All over Scotland, Lothian

[0903] Selected Images from the John Hume Collection

A further 500 records from the RCAHMS's John Hume Collection, covering industrial and public buildings outside of the central belt of Scotland. See also Projects 693 & 864.

Location of Project Material: All over Scotland, Lothian