Carmichael Watson Project Blog
Thursday, 29 August 2013

Genesis Chapter 1. In Gaelic. On a Bone.

›
We had an outing at the end of last week, over to the archives of New College, home of the School of Divinity, to look at a Gaelic text ke...
Monday, 22 July 2013

Objects in Focus: Querns

›
Quern stones were popularly used throughout Scotland, to grind and mill cereals, into the twentieth century. A complete rotary quern consist...
Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Objects in Focus: Cas-chrom

›
Cas-chrom Carmichael's collection contains a vast array of objects including a cas-chrom , a foot-plough, that is on display at the...
Thursday, 23 May 2013

Luibh bheag bheag, luibh bheannaichte / A small small plant, a blessed plant

›
There are numerous accounts of plant lore noted in Carmina Gadelica and within the notebooks at the Centre for Research Collections,...
Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Beltane Bannocks

›
Beltane is an important day in the Celtic calendar that marks the beginning of summer, and the day is still widely celebrated. Fire was, and...
Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Preview of the catalogue

›
This Friday the Carmichael Watson Project object catalogue, based on Carmichael's collections at the West Highland Museum and the Natio...
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.