Rebekah Higgitt

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Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. VP @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own. Formerly known as @beckyfh https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile

Crop of previous picture, focusing on the statue, decorated as described.
View up the busy High Street, with St Giles Cathedral on the left, some random orange fencing on the road and just visible statue of Adam Smith with a bollard on his head.
Several people standing in a collections store, with one of them nose-first in the open doors of a shelving unit.
Lines of people about to dance in a large museum hall.
People wearing party hats and throwing balloons posing around a taxidermied sheep in a museum case, which is also decorated.
Evening event in a large hall (NMS Grand Gallery) with lots of people dancing.
View down a street, looking over the Firth of Forth, still with some rosy tints over the hills. You can also see a (blurry) moon top left.
Bagpiper in a city square with locals and tourists watching and filming - town hall with saltires behind.
Snapshot of distant older and contemporary buildings on a hill (the City Observatory, former site of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh). A red arrow has been drawn to highlight the chimney on the older buildings.
photograph of a small spherical capsule, with the hatch off, displayed in a museum case.
Harry Hill saying FIGHT!
A gilded statue of a man in "Roman" attire with many pigeons around his feet, trees behind.
Image showing what looks like a book cover with "BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026" as the title, and a banner that reads "Shortlist out now!"
Aerial view of the Firth of Forth from the east.
Two paperback copies of Metropolitan Science with a detail of a 17thC map of London on the cover.
18thC buildings, some with thatch, along a small road, hills in the back.
View of cliffs from the water - you can just see the stack that is the Old Man of Hoy, Orkney.
Photograph of grey skies and grey river with a cathedral and hills in the background.
View of the grand gallery with voiles hanging down the sides. They have collaged images that evoke specimens and measures.
The big, yellow tech looks less huge in this photo of sea, sky and port infrastructure.
Photo of a stretch of much-patched and pot-holed tarmac.
Two 19th-century astronomical instruments in an old-fashioned glass case, through which can be seen the Victorian ironwork of the National Museum of Scotland.
Photo of a woman using a small brush on the nose of a (taxidermied) sheep.
View of an open plaza area with classical and gothic buildings to the right and on the skyline behind. There are three visible arrangements of illustrated information panels.
Detail showing a small silver instrument formed of a series of rings. It is centred on the point where two cross over.
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Scotland's Astronomer Royal, Catherine Heymans, speaking for the UK community of astronomers, told the science select committee that the proposed cuts were "genuinely catastrophic and will be devastating for the UK."
Night-time view of a city square with grand, lit buildings on two sides. A long queue has formed from an entrance on the right that runs to the left and out of frame.
Close-up of the lower part of the wood carving.
Close up of the upper bit of the wood carving.
Shot of the red brick Wren church with a large magnolia tree in bloom.
View of a museum gallery with someone dusting a suspended aircraft from a VERY high but tiny cherry picker.
Photograph of a child's face lit up by a phone screen.
Engraved map showing an eclipse passing over much of England and Wales, with text about the predicted event below.
An etching titled Philosophers, showing two men seated and talking. The one on the right (Joseph Black) has a wig. Below, written in pen is "Dr Hutton Physician" and "Dr Black prof[ess]or of Chemistry".
Etching of a man in 18thC clothing, sitting with one hand to his chin and the other holding paper and pointing to a book. The cat sits on the back of the chair, the bust is on a table to the left, with an artist's pallet beneath.
A dismantled 17thC Islamic astrolabe, showing alidade, rete, mater and five plates.
Full moon, a few clouds, trees, roof with dormer windows
Part of a decorative frieze on a sandstone building showing putting at work cutting and gathering corn.
View across an exhibition space with large, sculptural exhibits representing large extinct mammals, fish and reptiles, with fossils and casts, AV and interactives.
Small TV and wireless together in a vertical wooden cabinet.
View over rocky hillside with gorse above. The unremarkable back of the Section is on the left.
As above image.
View down the colourfully lit Grand Gallery of the Museum with a band on a stage and lots of dancers having a ceilidh.
My view of the sofa - an open book on the right and a tabby cat curled up on a fleecy thing to the left.
ICE agent holding his phone through a car door. The screen shows the driver's calm, sad face, framed for scanning.
Four oval photographic portraits inset within a rectangular gold frame. The top two show a young woman and man, with '1856' written between them. The bottom two show the same two people, older, with '1906' between them.
Close-up of a decorated Christmas tree, you might just spot the wooden decorations shaped like an urn and a mantua dress.
Chopped-up Christmas tree in a trolley labeled NMS Estates on a cobbled road surface with a white, modern building behind.
View of a small harbour, with three boats, a lifeboat shelter, splashing waves, pink clouds, nearly full moon.
Colourful sunset with a signpost silhouetted in the foreground
Tabby cat on a beanbag by a radiator. Elegant, comfortable, but with an expression that suggests she's not altogether impressed.
Low-res image of the book cover for the Brill-published volume, with title, editors (Sara Schechner and Richard Kremer) and lovely photograph of instrument scholars peering at an armillary sphere being shown by Schechener.
View down the Science & Technology galleries within the Victorian architecture of the National Museum of Scotland. Aeroplanes hang from the ceiling, a beam engine makes its presence felt on the left, a red car is in the centre distance, Dolly the Sheep is on her plinth to the right foreground.
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