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Burns Night

Popular the world over, Burns’ Night will soon be

upon us.

January 25th marks the annual celebration of Scotland’s

national poet Robert Burns. And you can find plenty of

material on Scran to help your own celebrations go

with a bang. If poetry’s your thing, explore Scottish

poetry and Scottish poets

http://www.scran.ac.uk/hierarchy/c4e/5/4287/Poetry

Indulge in the culinary delights of Burns’ Supper

http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/results.php?QUICKS

EARCH=1&search_term=haggis and afterwards work

off the excesses with a spot of Scottish Country

Dancing

http://www.scran.ac.uk/hierarchy/c4e/4/485/Scottish

CountryDancing

Or, if you just want to get to know a bit more about the

man himself and where he came from, a simple search

for Robert + Burns brings up Pathfinder Packs galore.

Get Stuffed! Did you know you can save Scran records as you find them and organise and manipulate them with a Stuff

Account? Find out more in our online tutorial!

Spring 2013 LEARNING IMAGES WWW.SCRAN.AC.UK

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South Lanarkshire War Memorials

As the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War

approaches in 2014, Scran’s war memorial collections will

become even more relevant. Material, contributed by the

Friends of Low Parks Museum, offers Scran users access to

images of memorials and war graves across South

Lanarkshire - from Cambuslang to Uddingston. The collection

also includes a number of memorials from neighbouring

regions, such as Wanlockhead in Dumfries and Galloway.

And watch out for new war memorial records from North

Lanarkshire coming soon.

Patrick Moore, Astronomer and Broadcaster

(1923-2012)

For more stargazing images on Scran

http://www.scran.ac.uk/s/space

Scran Out and About

As ever, it’s been a busy term for the Scran outreach team. We made our annual appearance at the Scottish Learning Festival in September, a great opportunity to meet some of our users face to face. We’ve also been delivering our comprehensive range of training programmes to teachers, librarians and students across schools, colleges and universities in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Falkirk, North Lanarkshire, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire. Scran was also at the Dumfries and Galloway English Learning Conference, the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers Conference in Glasgow and at the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in Perth. In the adult learning sector, Scran has been out and about offering taster sessions across a number of Edinburgh libraries, talking to historical and family history societies in Fife and exhibiting at East Lothian’s Heritage Festival. If you are interested in organising a Scran CPD session or other learning event then please get in touch.

Our contact details are at the end of this newsletter.

@Scranlife You can now follow our tweets via Twitter

Images from top: Five Blues, 2000 and St Ives, 1943, both by

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham © Barns-Graham Charitable Trust;

Crossraguel Abbey, Ayrshire © Phototech Imaging. Bottom

left: Baltersan Castle, Ayrshire © Phototech Imaging

New contributions Superb New Material on Scran to Kickstart 2013

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Artworks

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE (1912-2004) was

born and educated in Scotland, but moved to

Cornwall where she became a member of the St.

Ives Society of Artists. Digital copies of both her

representational and abstract works have been

contributed to Scran by the Barns-Graham

Charitable Trust. The Trust has recently renovated

Balmungo House in Fife, a Victorian property

formerly owned by the artist, to provide a hub to

celebrate her work.

http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=0

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Baltersan Castle and Crossraguel Abbey

Baltersan Castle in South Ayrshire is a ruined,

Category A-Listed, 16th-century tower-house. At the

centre of one of the most important ancient

pilgrimage routes in Scotland - Glasgow Cathedral to

Whithorn via Paisley Abbey - Baltersan is also closely

linked with the nearby mediaeval Crossraguel Abbey.

Stunning images of both these ancient sites have

been kindly contributed by Scran user Charmaine

Gittens of Phototech Imaging.

http://scran.ac.uk/s/baltersan+ayrshire

http://scran.ac.uk/s/crossraguel+ayrshire

Contact us

Schools – jackie.sangster@rcahms.gov.uk

T: 0131 651 6817

Schools/FE and HE – andrew.james@rcahms.gov.uk

T: 0131 651 6816

Lifelong Learning – helen.foster@rcahms.gov.uk

T: 0131 651 6815

General enquiries – www.scran.ac.uk

T: 0131 662 1456

Detail of Traditional Fisherman’s Jersey © Argyll & Bute Council Museums Service; Fisherrow Fisherman in Gansey Sweater © East Lothian Library Service

Coming Soon...

Do you know what a gansey is?

Ganseys are patterned woollen

fishing jumpers from Northern

Scotland. Each gansey tells its

own story, with different

patterns, wool types and

symbolism making every one

unique.

Scran is delighted to announce

that we will soon be hosting the

digital resources of the National

Gansey Archive, collected and

curated by the Moray Firth

Partnership.

Watch this space.

My Favourite Record

We asked Dalry Homework Club in North Ayrshire to

share their favourite Scran record with us. They’ve been

using images from the site recently to make

calendars.

One of the girls at the club said, “The leopard looks so

calm and full, it must have just eaten something else”.

See the Dalry Homework Club’s choice pic at

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Line Drawings of Scotland

This wonderful set of drawings

has been licensed to Scran by

architect and illustrator Iain

Watt. Originally created as a

series of Christmas cards over

the course of nearly 30 years,

they depict Iain's travels

around Scotland, often in his

boat, and feature landmarks

including Castle Stalker,

Colonsay and Iona.

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