Collection: Local Collection Non Fiction

Miscellaneous collection of extracts from local publications.

Miscellaneous collection of extracts from local publications.

Accompanying a landmark three-part BBC1 Scotland documentary series, this lavishly illustrated book uses the view from above as a unique window into our past, present and future. It is a story of war, innovation, adventure, cities, landscapes and people. It is the story of Scotland, from the Sky.

Blue Solitude takes as its starting point a quote from Heraclitus: "I searched for myself"; yet the work is not constructed in a classic autobiographical/confessional mode. Instead it evokes memories and experiences through poetic sketches and atmospheric stills from unmade movies. It haunts and ...

'To the Power of Twelve' comprises an inter-related series of new works making reference to lesser-known histories of the Great War and particular aspects of Mount Stuart’s wartime role. A unifying factor through the exhibition is the number 12, which recurs symbolically in major world religions ...

Ages of Wonder builds on the moment in 1910 when the Royal Scottish Academy transferred a number of significant works to the National Collection, securing exhibiting rights within the building shared by the two institutions today. The Academy had been a force behind the establishment of a nationa...

Ages of Wonder builds on the moment in 1910 when the Royal Scottish Academy transferred a number of significant works to the National Collection, securing exhibiting rights within the building shared by the two institutions today. The Academy had been a force behind the establishment of a nationa...

Leaving Our Homeland – Syria to the Isle of Bute is a moving and heartfelt collection of narratives shared by Syrian women whose lives have been affected by the Arab Spring uprising in 2011 and the subsequent war in Syria. Crossing borders, enduring extreme hardship in Lebanon, they found an oppo...