A little about us…
We are seven people from different walks of life who have come together to work as trainees on the Heritage Lottery Funded (HLF) Skills for the Future programme.
We are the second group of trainees on the programme in Scotland, we're using this blog to update about our experiences with our host organisation - the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS).
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Archived Posts
Education Placement: The National Trust for Scotland Newhailes
For the last month the Education Trainees have been out of the RCAHMS office on work placements. John has been working with Historic Scotland at Stirling Castle. Mira and I…
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Education Placement: The National Trust for Scotland Newhailes
For the last month the Education Trainees have been out of the RCAHMS office on work placements. John has been working with Historic Scotland at Stirling Castle. Mira and I…
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Collections at work: Off we go!
With the bulk of the Countryside Commission work done, the collections trainees have spent this week working on a variety of different projects. First up was a new accession from a former…
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Collections at Work: Countryside Commission of Scotland Survey
As is becoming the normal practice, the collections trainees have had another interesting week. We continued to re-arrange the Countryside Commission of Scotland photographs from the Buildings in the Scottish…
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Collections at work: The Countryside Commission and getting to grips with Palaeography
This week the Skills for the Future Collections team have waved a fond farewell to Cullen, Lochhead and Brown. All of the rolled drawings have been rehoused in acid free…
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Collections at work: Cullen Lochhead and Brown
For the past two weeks the curatorial trainees have been carrying on the good work of last year’s trainees by sorting through the remainder of the Cullen, Lochhead and Brown…
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In the spotlight… Education trainees
For the first five weeks of our programme we have been working with the Scran team producing online education resources on a variety of topics. This required us to research…
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In the spotlight… Collections trainees
Our first months have seen us introduced to a variety of ongoing collections projects. We began with archaeology material, which allowed us to familiarise ourselves with the Oracle database system….
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New Skills for the Future Trainees
We are the next round of Skills for the Future trainees to pass through RCAHMS doors. Over the next year the seven of us will complete a year-long work placement,…
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Farewell from us!
The last weeks of our traineeships have seen the culmination of our projects and all the trainees moving on in their careers! Plenty of success stories all round. Project-wise, me,…
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A Year Gone By
So, we’re coming to the end of our traineeships. We’re in the final stages of completing our integration projects and it’s hard to believe a year has already flown by!…
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The National Archives
We recently had a great opportunity to spend the majority of a week at The National Archives in Kew, alongside the trainees who are undertaking placements as part of the…
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A Night in the Museum
On Friday night a group of us headed to the first “Museum Lates” at the National Museum of Scotland. It was a great chance to see the museum, many of…