THE CARMINA GADELICA
“The maid milking a cow might sing to ‘Mary of Light’ to increase her yield”
tarting in 1860, Alexander Carmichael, an excise man and amateur folklorist, spent over 50 years gathering together everything he thought was at risk
Clockwork Treasures
From as early as the 1580s, the commodity of clocks began to make their way from the Western world into China. These objects of both beauty and functionality, made in Europe, were given the name zimingzhong meaning “self-sounding bells” or “bells tha
