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A portrait oil painting of an older man seated on a wooden chair, with his legs crossed. He wears a formal military-style uniform with a dark jacket with a very high collar, and a blue sash across his body. He also wears a black and red cape over his shoulders, which falls behind him.

30 Sept 2020

Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767–1852)

Join Regional Curator Sarah Beattie over the next few months as she looks at the lives of some of the Hamilton family, and explores the impact they had on the building, collections and interiors at Brodick Castle.

A mounted ink drawing of a boxing match, mostly in sepia colours. It shows a large crowd surrounding a fenced boxing ring outdoors, with hills in the background. The boxer to the left is punching the boxer on the right in the face, and he is shown falling.

28 Sept 2020

A tale of two champions: the Cribb and Molineaux boxing drawings at Brodick

On this day, 109 years ago, Cribb and Molineaux took to the ring for the second time to find the ultimate winner of Georgian Britain’s greatest boxing battle.

Black and white illustration showing a narrow 7 storey tenement building in the 19th century.

25 Sept 2020

Sex and scandal at Gladstone’s Land

Behind the historical facade of Gladstone’s Land lies a scandalous past.

A painted scene with a rugged hillside in the foreground, rising higher on the right, dotted with trees and ochre coloured Italian houses that are lit by the sun. A dusty brown road winds from right to left. Men and women dressed in peasant clothes walk along the road. The hillside gives way in the middle ground to a curved bay filled with blue water and edged on the left hand side by the impression of streets full of light brown houses. In the background is a scene of two, grey, peaked mountains. The one on the right has smoke coming from the top, seen against a light blue sky.

25 Sept 2020

From the sublime to the ridiculous?

To celebrate World Tourism Day on Sunday 27 September, we voyage around the world through items in our collection, looking back across 300 years of travel and tourism.

Colourful antimacassars on the back of a high-backed couch.

23 Sept 2020

The Hill House: antimacassars

If you already know what an antimacassar is, give yourself a gold star! Find out more about these beautiful and ornate items designed by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.

Black and white caricature of a man in a large white wig seated at a table, being attended to by a servant.

21 Sept 2020

Looking good

We take a look at the history of beauty through some of the items in our collections.

A bugle made from a cow’s horn. The horn is various shades of brown and ivory colour, and has a cord fixed to it by two metal rings.

18 Sept 2020

Shanah Tovah! (Good Year!)

Tonight (18 September) marks the start of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, typically regarded as the Jewish New Year.

A close-up of a woman with white conservation gloves holding a hardback book with an orange cover.

17 Sept 2020

Pests in collections – silverfish

Pests can cause irreversible damage in historical collections. Silverfish are very hard to eradicate, so we keep them in check with integrated pest management programmes.

The common entrance to a red sandstone tenement block, with steps leading up to the front door.

17 Sept 2020

The ‘Spanish flu’ and the Tenement House

We take a look at how the 1918 flu pandemic might have affected Miss Agnes Toward, who lived in Glasgow at that time.

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