Classroom MapHighland Museum of Childhood This map would likely have been displayed in a classroom to teach children about the geography of the Indian sub-continent. It gives us an insight into changes to the global political geography. Dating from 1900, the map...
Early Twentieth Century GlobeHighland Museum of Childhood This globe provides an insight into the colonial geography of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At its height in 1922, the British empire covered around a quarter of the Earth’s surface,...
Victorian SamplerStrathnaver Museum This lovely embroidered sampler was made by Christina Mackay in 1872 when she was aged just 13. When she was 17, she left her home in Ardniskich, Bettyhill, and emigrated to America. After her marriage, Christina kept the name...
Knitted SuitGairloch Museum This dusky pink, two-piece knitted suit was created by well-known Gairloch knitter Becca Macaulay. She created it using a knitting machine designed for making socks, with wool shorn from sheep on the donor’s family croft in Porthenderson...
Korean Porcelain Vase Seaboard Centre In 1872, thirty-year-old John Ross was sent by the Scottish United Presbyterian Mission to northeast China, where he founded the Dongguan Church in Shenyang and became acquainted with traders from Korea. John Ross is a very...
