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Project search results for location: 'Western Isles'
Number of projects retrieved: 229 Records 211 to 216[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
[0069] Ancient Stones of Scotland
Provides an opportunity to make a virtual visit to the prehistoric monuments of Scotland: including settlements, defences and tombs from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.
Keywords: Standing Stone, Stone Circle, Settlement, Tomb, Neolithic, Prehistoric, Iron Age, Religion, Death, video, qtvr
Location of Project Material: All over Scotland, Outside Scotland, Borders, Central Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Grampian, Highlands, Lothian, Orkney, Shetland, Strathclyde, Tayside, Western Isles
[0063] Roy's Military Survey of Scotland
A digitisation of William Roy's "Military Survey of Scotland" maps, 1747-1755, the first systematic survey of mainland Scotland. This unique snapshot of eighteenth century Scotland was commissioned immediately after the "rebellion" of 1745. Held in the Research Collection of the British Library, they have never been copied or reproduced before.
Keywords: Roy, Military, Survey, Map, British Library
Location of Project Material: All over Scotland, Outside Scotland
[0061] The Landscape of Scotland - Images from 1891 onwards
A selection of photographs, dating from 1891 to the present, illustrating the varied topography of Scotland in its geological setting, with examples from most areas of the country.
Keywords: Landscape, Geology, Topography, Geomorphology
Location of Project Material: All over Scotland, Borders, Central Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Grampian, Highlands, Lothian, Orkney, Shetland, Strathclyde, Tayside, Western Isles
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