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  • A lacquer plaque of lots of different people waving small red books in the air gathering around Chairman Mao.

    Materialising the Cold War

    Three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, our collaborative project explores how the Cold War is represented in museums.
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  • Open wooden box with triangular metal tool in one side and a printed sheet of paper in the lid.

    Tools of Knowledge

    Modelling the Creative Communities of the Scientific Instrument Trade, 1550-1914.
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  • Aquatint of a view from Calton Hill, Edinburgh, including an observatory in the foreground and the water in the distance.

    Observatory Sites and Networks since 1780

    This AHRC Network Grant is a collaboration between Royal Museums Greenwich and National Museums Scotland.
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Doctoral research projects

  • A white rocket-shaped missile on a grey surface.

    The Cold War in Scotland: Technology, Heritage and the British Warfare State

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  • A brass metal tool mounted on a wooden base with a small elevated dial and a tube aimed at the dial.

    Intellectual Properties: Transferring Science from Universities to National Museums Scotland

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