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  • We collections trainees (Lynsey, Alison, Kayleigh, Louise, Bruce and I) are in the middle of our two week long placements.  Each of us are at different archives. I am at...0May 13, 2013

    Curatorial Traineeship Placements

    We collections trainees (Lynsey, Alison, Kayleigh, Louise, Bruce and I) are in the middle of our two week long placements.  Each of us are at different archives. I am at…

  •   I write this whilst sat on a beanbag on the floor of Stirling Castle’s LearningLAB. The space still echoes from the shrieks, cheers and laughs from another exited group...0May 10, 2013

    Life at the LearningLAB

      I write this whilst sat on a beanbag on the floor of Stirling Castle’s LearningLAB. The space still echoes from the shrieks, cheers and laughs from another exited group…

  • The collections trainees have spent the past couple of weeks cataloguing and housing material which had already been accessioned, so it has been interesting and informative to see the other...0May 2, 2013

    Accessioning

    The collections trainees have spent the past couple of weeks cataloguing and housing material which had already been accessioned, so it has been interesting and informative to see the other…

  • Over the next three months I shall be on placement at the National Trust for Scotland’s Falkland Palace in Fife. My main project shall be working with a P7 class...1April 25, 2013

    Aisha’s Placement at Falkland Palace

    Over the next three months I shall be on placement at the National Trust for Scotland’s Falkland Palace in Fife. My main project shall be working with a P7 class…

  • Early last week three of us Education & Outreach trainees attended a workshop hosted by Historic Scotland and run by Ewan McIntosh and Tom Barrett of NoTosh, who had been...0April 24, 2013

    Spaghetti towers in Stirling Castle: a workshop on heritage education

    Early last week three of us Education & Outreach trainees attended a workshop hosted by Historic Scotland and run by Ewan McIntosh and Tom Barrett of NoTosh, who had been…

  • The Collection trainees (Alison, Bruce, Kayleigh, Louise, Nikki, and I) accompanied by Mike Middleton and Iain Fraser all went on a visit to Headland Archaeology’s Head Office on Jane Street...0April 16, 2013

    Visit to see the ‘Knight’ in the bones!

    The Collection trainees (Alison, Bruce, Kayleigh, Louise, Nikki, and I) accompanied by Mike Middleton and Iain Fraser all went on a visit to Headland Archaeology’s Head Office on Jane Street…

  • This week for me has been primarily spent working on the Commission’s “County Run Drawings”. This is a series of site evaluations carried out by the Commission from its inception...1April 12, 2013

    A week with Bruce

    This week for me has been primarily spent working on the Commission’s “County Run Drawings”. This is a series of site evaluations carried out by the Commission from its inception…

  • The Education trainees (Aisha, Sharon, Will and I) have spent the last 4 weeks working with Scran. Managed by RCAHMS, Scran is a charity that provides educational access to around...0April 3, 2013

    The World of Scran

    The Education trainees (Aisha, Sharon, Will and I) have spent the last 4 weeks working with Scran. Managed by RCAHMS, Scran is a charity that provides educational access to around…

  •  Above: Elephants at Newhall taken in 1996 in the walled garden.   The past couple of weeks here at RCAHMS have seen the collection trainees busy with cataloguing projects.  I...0March 28, 2013

    Collections Update

     Above: Elephants at Newhall taken in 1996 in the walled garden.   The past couple of weeks here at RCAHMS have seen the collection trainees busy with cataloguing projects.  I…

  • The new trainees set off this week to visit the burial site of a “knight” in the car park of Edinburgh University’s archaeology department. We were guided around the site...0March 25, 2013

    Knight in the car park

    The new trainees set off this week to visit the burial site of a “knight” in the car park of Edinburgh University’s archaeology department. We were guided around the site…

  • After being at RCAHMS for about six weeks we thought it was about time we introduced ourselves! We are the third intake of Skills for the Future Trainees here at...1March 22, 2013

    New Trainees!

    After being at RCAHMS for about six weeks we thought it was about time we introduced ourselves! We are the third intake of Skills for the Future Trainees here at…

  • Well here we are at the end of our year as trainees and it has gone by so fast we cannot believe we have completed all our tasks. The year...0January 31, 2013

    Farewell from the 2012-13 Trainees

    Well here we are at the end of our year as trainees and it has gone by so fast we cannot believe we have completed all our tasks. The year…