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New Skills for the Future Trainees
We are the next round of Skills for the Future trainees to pass through RCAHMS doors. Over the next year the seven of us will complete a year-long work placement, mainly based within RCAHMS, but also...
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Collections at work: Cullen Lochhead and Brown
For the past two weeks the curatorial trainees have been carrying on the good work of last year’s trainees by sorting through the remainder of the Cullen, Lochhead and Brown accession. Hundreds of...
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Spaghetti towers in Stirling Castle: a workshop on heritage education
Early last week three of us Education & Outreach trainees attended a workshop hosted by Historic Scotland and run by Ewan McIntosh and Tom Barrett of NoTosh, who had been invited to Stirling Castle...
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Aisha’s Placement at Falkland Palace
Over the next three months I shall be on placement at the National Trust for Scotland’s Falkland Palace in Fife. My main project shall be working with a P7 class from Falkland Primary School to make...
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Accessioning
The collections trainees have spent the past couple of weeks cataloguing and housing material which had already been accessioned, so it has been interesting and informative to see the other side of the...
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A day out at the HVOS conference
Rob Jackson delivered the keynote speech and one of the workshops. Photograph (c) HVOS. Last week, the four collections trainees who were not on placement attended the Heritage Volunteer Organisers...
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New Lanark and the European Route of Industrial Heritage
On Monday I attended the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH) summer conference in New Lanark. Industrial history, and the political and social factors associated with it, has long been an...
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Hello!
A warm welcome from Lewis, Anna and Niamh, the shiny new Trainee Heritage Officers of the HLF funded Skills for the Future programme, originally within RCAHMS and now part of the newly formed Historic...
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Digital Archives
Conducting the Digital Archive Audit at Murrayburn. The fancy electronic storage units at Murrayburn. Apparently you need a head for heights when archiving! Murrayburn Archive Facility...
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