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Biomedicine on Display (Free subscription) | yesterday
For a decade, University Museums in Scotland (UMIS) have organized biennial conferences dealing with themes like cultural entitlement and museums (2006), the significance of collections (2004), the alleged ‘death of museums’ (2000), etc. (see all programmes here). This year’s conference in Aberdeen (20-21 November 2008) will focus on ’The Contentious Museum’ because, say the organisers, ”museums have...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Trans-Siberian Mega Trip
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The PIDX International North Sea Forum was held on July 9 in Aberdeen, Scotland, offering an opportunity for the North Sea's independent oil and gas operators to share best practices on e...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scotland has been a popular student destination for hundreds of years. The country's oldest universities – St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen – are truly ancient, dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries. Many more institutions have since been founded and have grown in stature, before eventually achieving university status. The country now boasts 14 universities and almost a quarter of...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Scotland's finance secretary is asked to investigate if Aberdeen's £49.7m budget cutbacks are legal.
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
ABERDEEN trialist Lecsinel Jean-Francois insists he is now ready to carve out a career in Scotland as he bids to win a deal with the Dons.
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FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Edward III launched a pre-emptive attack on Scotland before Philip VI of France's plans to reinforce his Scottish allies could be brought to fruition. With less than a thousand men, Edward hurried north towards Aberdeen, thought the most likely port...
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Seòras.com (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Following our successful tour in 1975 Magnus and I decided to do the same the following year only following a different route. We again planned to stay at SYHA youth hostels which as before we had to pre-book. The route took us from Aberdeen to Braemar, Perth, Edinburgh, Wanlockhead (Scotlans highest village), Ayr, Glasgow, Stirling, [...]
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
While rising energy prices have contributed to the rest of Britain staring at recession, the same forces are creating an economic boom in Scotland's oil capital.
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Top News Cast - World (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
By Margie Macleod Although the city of Aberdeen is now closely associated with the oil industry the city has an interesting and rather long history. Evidence shows that people have inhabited the area for some 8,000 years or more. Known as the "Granite City", and also as the "Silver City" or the "Silver City with the Golden Sands" Aberdeen is the third largest city in the nation of Scotland. Aberdeen...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
BOTH sides seemed to be more active off the park than on it on a day when Aberdeen signed Charlie Mulgrew for £80,000 from Wolves while Dundee recruited former Scotland midfie
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Scottish singer AMY MACDONALD is set to wed her soccer star boyfriend STEVE LOVELL. The couple became engaged after Lovell, a former striker for Scotland's Aberdeen ...
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UK airports information blog (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
BAA, which owns and operates Aberdeen Airport, Edinburgh Airport and Glasgow Airport, has welcomed a report from a group of MSPs calling for extra marketing support for airlines flying in to Scotland. Gordon Dewar, managing director of Glasgow and acting MD of Edinburgh Airport, said: “Aviation is an integral part of the social and economic life [...]
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taking fire (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
A million years in the monochrome past when I lived in the arctic hellhole of Aberdeen, Scotland, I fervently frequented a great comics shop called Plan 9. In an otherwise remote and conservative city, Plan 9 was a conduit to counterculture. The owner managed to get imports of all kinds of amazing stuff: Robert Crumb, [...]
