Author: bryonycoombs
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Berger Prize Shortlist 2025
To my great delight and surprise ‘Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance’ has made the Berger Prize shortlist. Listen to the shortlist podcast here. From the longlist, in the company of so many remarkable books…. To the shortlist: A huge honour, for which I am immensely grateful.
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Berger Prize Longlist 2025
This week I was really delighted to learn that Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420-1550 (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) has been longlisted for the Berger Prize. This came in the same week as I learned that it was to be presented to the mayor of Aubigny-sur-Nère at the opening…
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Working With Historic Pigment
‘Paintings were valued because of the materials that they contained. But they were also valued because of the mysterious ways craftsmen could convert raw materials into something with fateful power.’ (Bucklow, 2009). The Pigments Pigments are made from inorganic (metals and some minerals) or organic raw materials (plants & animals) and are transformed into paint…
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Oak Gall Ink
As part of a series of experiential learning projects, I will be preparing and using a variety of historic materials. The objective here is less about perfecting these historic methods (in terms of strict historical accuracy – although accuracy is still important) and more about what we can learn by doing rather than by using…
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HNA Fellowship
https://hnanews.org/hna-2025-fellowships-awarded/ I am really delighted to have been one of the HNA Fellowship 2025 awardees. Receiving funds for images to finalise the publication of the edited volume Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade and Cultural Exchange, Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges and Jerusalem (under contract with Brepols). With huge thanks to the HNA for their invaluable support…
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Successful PTAS Award: Experiencing the Past
Whoop, we have been successful with a Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS) funding bid for 2025. Title: Experiencing the Past: Interdisciplinary Experiential Learning through Heritage-Based Workshops As work progresses on the Curriculum Transformation Project at Edinburgh University, which will make major interventions in many traditional degree programmes, many key challenges and new modes of teaching…
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Manuscript Encounters V: CCI, Paris!
This is a brief record of a research trip to Paris in December 2024. More detailed work on this will be forthcoming, but for now, this is just a record of those few days as an important research experience (archived from Bluesky). 🧵In 2024 I have had to squeeze in a good number of research…
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Manuscript Encounters IV: James Graye & a Scotichronicon
Repository National Records of Scotland Reference GD45/26/48 Title Manuscript of Walter Bower’s Scotichronicon, written by Magnus Makculloch and ‘illuminated’ by James Graye Dates [Late 15th century] This is a brief record of a trip to The National Records of Scotland archives at Thomas Thomson House on Wednesday 2 October. The primary reason for this trip…
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Manuscript Encounters III: British Library & Weston Library
For ‘Scotland on Parchment’ I received generous funding from the Paul Mellon Centre for a series of MS research trips to be undertaken this year. I originally wrote this up as a Twitter thread, but since leaving the site, I thought that I would log it here instead. I hope to include a number of…
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