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            <title><![CDATA[The Quatercentenary celebrations 1906]]></title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On the 27th of September 1906, the City of Aberdeen welcomed King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to open the new buildings at Marischal College, amidst some of the most extravagant celebrations and expressions of civic pride ever demonstrated in Aberdeen.
Although the University was founded in 1495, the completion of the extension scheme in 1906 coincided with the 400th anniversary of the completion of the original buildings at King&rsquo;s, thereby providing a focal point for the University&rsquo;s major quatercentenary celebrations. Four days of festivities took place across the City, which included church services, banquets, torchlight processions, and fireworks displays.&nbsp;In&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[George Jamesone's Lybica and Aegyptiaca & the representation of race]]></title>
            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In 1641, twelve paintings representing the Sibyls were gifted to King&rsquo;s College by Principal William Guild. A receipt found in the archives implied the identity of the original artist to be George Jamesone (Pryor 2002:61) but affirmed that during the 18th&nbsp;century the works had been restored and repainted by the artist Cosmo Alexander. The term sibyl comes from the&nbsp;ancient Greek&nbsp;word &lsquo;sibylla&rsquo;, meaning prophetess. Later, in Christian art, the Sibyls were deemed to be foretellers of the Christian Revelation and were represented as young women who were blessed with the gift of prophesying the birth and life of Christ.
While working&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Madam Yoko's Snuff Box and Collections from Sierra Leone]]></title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Around 70 museum collection items at the University of Aberdeen come from Sierra Leone. It is one of the most significant African collections at the University, alongside those from Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. Most of the collection has been in Aberdeen for over 100 years, and our historic records for many of the items unfortunately provide little detail on the circumstances of how the University acquired them. But we do know that many of the items were brought to Aberdeen during the period when much of Sierra Leone was a Protectorate under British colonial administration. The largest&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Envisioning Women: Stories from the George Washington Wilson collection - The Skene Street School Photograph]]></title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Skene Street School Photograph
Written by Dr Alison McCall, former Chair of Women&rsquo;s History Scotland and a participant in the&nbsp;Mapping&nbsp;Memorials to Women project, this blog post explores one of the most striking photographs in the online exhibition,&nbsp;Envisioning Women&rsquo;s Places: Photographs from the George Washington Wilson Collection. Alison documents her research on the photograph, and her journey of discovering more about the people it depicts.

'Skene Street School Group Portrait', from the George Washington Wilson &amp; Co. Collection, MS 3792
&nbsp;
This photograph of the teaching staff of Skene Street School appears in the University of Aberdeen&rsquo;s catalogue with a&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Curating online: Our 'Envisioning Women's Places' exhibition]]></title>
            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Envisioning Women&rsquo;s Places: Photographs from the George Washington Wilson Collection &ndash; an exhibition of photographs of women from the Victorian and Edwardian eras &ndash; was due to be on display in the Sir Duncan Rice Library this year. But, due to Covid, the display had to move online instead.

A Highland Washing
&nbsp;
Taking Stock of the situation
Envisioning Women&rsquo;s Places isn&rsquo;t the first exhibition that the University Collections team has had to develop online since the pandemic reached the UK, over a year ago. But the period of its curation was the first chance we had to really think&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Animating Alex]]></title>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When the Covid 19 restrictions prevented us from filming on campus, we got animated!
Back in early summer, UoA Collections received funding from the Scottish Book Trust to develop a series of filmed micro-tutorials with the award winning children&rsquo;s author,&nbsp;Alex McCall&nbsp;as part of the annual Book Week Scotland festival that takes place each November.
Here&rsquo;s how the story developed&hellip;
Episode 1: How to Write Flash Fiction
UoA Collections has traditionally run a Flash Fiction competition as part of Book Week Scotland, the week-long celebration of books, and we wanted to do the same this year, but with a twist!
From&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mirror mirror on the wall, why do we protect (objects) at all?]]></title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Introducing Safekeeping, an online exhibition curated by students on the University of Aberdeen&rsquo;s Museum Studies MLitt.
There is a mystery, a sense of excitement walking into an exhibition space. Whether it is art or history, the cool room, low lights and pristine glass protecting what is behind it make you feel like you are on the precipice of a discovery. Exhibitions and museums in general give you the opportunity to learn at your own pace, to decide how and when you learn something new, but the main facet is that you learn no matter how the information is delivered.
It&#8230;]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gauffering]]></title>
            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The term&nbsp;gauffered edges&nbsp;is often seen in the catalogue descriptions of bindings in our collections. This is a lovely decorative feature of some books, where the edges of the text block are decorated like this:
The term is thought to come from the French&nbsp;gaufre, meaning to impress or iron; and that is how the pattern is made, impressing a heated metal wire tool into the text block edge. The technique is usually found on gilded book edges. The edges of the text block (all the printed pages of the book, sewn together) are trimmed and then&nbsp;ploughed&nbsp;to make a smooth edge which&#8230;]]></description>
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