Library favourites
A multimedia showroom for curators and staff at the National Library of Scotland to share their favourite items from the collections. Watch, listen and get inspired!
- Modern Scottish Collections Curator Nicola Stratton gives an insight into Scottish witch hunts material in NLS collections
- Cate Newton, a former Director of Collections and Research at NLS, talks about highlights from the collections
- Sally Harrower, Manuscripts Curator, talks about the 7:84 Scotland Theatre Company archive at the National Library of Scotland
- Mountaineering and Polar Collections Curator Paula Williams introduces items from Captain Scott's last expedition collection
- Jan Usher, Head of Official Publications, talks about censorship of a little-known pamphlet and its author who was kept off the BBC. Or was he?
- Andrew Martin, Modern Scottish Collections Curator, talks about Scots language material in NLS collections
- Catherine Booth, Science and Technology Curator, looks at material about renewable energy that we have in our Science and Technology Collections
- Principal Manuscripts Curator Dr Iain Gordon Brown introduces items from the Grand Tour - the 18th century's equivalent of the gap year.
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