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PUBLISHER: NMS Enterprises Limited – Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781910682456
RRP: £19.99
PAGES: 160
PUBLICATION DATE:
April 21, 2022
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Highland Style
Rosie Waine
Ideas about the Scottish Highlands which took hold around the turn of the 19th century remain to the present day – for many people across the world Highland dress, bagpipes and Highland landscapes are the images of Scotland that first spring to mind.National Museums Scotland holds a significant collection of Highland dress and tartan clothing.The aim of Rosie Waine’s two-year research project include a survey of the collection and an exploration of how such outfits became an integral part of Scottish identity on a global stage.
Rosie Waine
Dr Rosie Waine is the William Grant Foundation Research Fellow, National Museum of Scotland, specialising in late 18th and early 19th-century Highland dress.
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Heather Parry
Heather Parry is a Glasgow-based writer and editor. Her debut novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. She is also the author of a short story c …
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We have a long history of publishing – Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum opened in 1901, and people have been writing about and publishing on the city’s collections ever since. The focus of Glasgow Museums Publishing programme is naturally the one mil …