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The National Museums Scotland Research Repository is an open access repository for the research produced by staff and research associates of National Museums Scotland. Research informs and supports almost every aspect of our work, be it curation, staging exhibitions, collecting, conserving and preserving objects, cultural programming or learning. Staff research enables others to discover and better understand our collections and we want to make our research outputs accessible to all. Research at National Museums Scotland covers a range of disciplines, including archaeology, decorative arts, Scottish history, world cultures, the history of science and technology and the natural sciences. Repository aims The aims of the repository are to:

1. Provide a reliable source of information about research undertaken by National Museums Scotland staff, individually or in collaboration with other research organisation.
2. Provide a single point of open access to our full-text research outputs wherever possible
3. Make our research easier to find, and enhance the contribution we make to UK and international research
4. Respond to the open access expectations of our research funders.

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    Representations of South Asians in Edinburgh in the 1840s
    2024
    Voigt, Friederike
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    Wiebe, Hauke
    This paper traces the presence of South Asians in Edinburgh, a second city of empire, during the 1840s. It provides six paintings and photographs of identified and unidentified sitters of South Asian origin who lived for short periods of time in the city but were otherwise mostly unrecorded among a predominantly European population. The authors argue that studying Edinburgh’s artistic production can contribute to a better understanding of the diversity of the city's population in the nineteenth century.
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    The first and most complete dinosaur skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland
    2025
    Panciroli, Elsa
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    Funston, Gregory F
    The fossil record of dinosaurs in Scotland mostly comprises isolated highly fragmentary bones from the Great Estuarine Group in the Inner Hebrides (Bajocian–Bathonian). Herewe report the first definite dinosaur body fossil ever found in Scotland (historically), having been discovered in 1973, but not collected until 45 years later. It is the first and most complete partial dinosaur skeleton currently known from Scotland.NMSG.2023.19.1 was recovered froma challenging foreshore location in the Isle of Skye, and transported to harbour in a semi-rigid inflatable boat towed by a motor boat. After manual preparation, micro-CT scanning was carried out, but this did not aid in identification. Among many unidentifiable elements, a neural arch, two ribs and part of the ilium are described herein, and their features indicate that this was a cerapodan or ornithopod dinosaur. Histological thin sections of one of the ribs support this identification, indicating an individual at least eight years of age, growing slowly at the time of death. If ornithopodan, as our data suggest, it could represent the world’s oldest body fossil of this clade.
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