{"id":1116,"date":"2013-01-31T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T09:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2013-01-31T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T09:23:05","slug":"walking-with-angels-exploring-death-in-modern-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2013\/01\/31\/walking-with-angels-exploring-death-in-modern-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking with Angels? Exploring Death in Modern Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1117\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/01\/0001865c.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1117\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1117\" alt=\"Song School St Mary, 1897, f.13r by Phoebe Anna Traquair, (b.1852, d.1936) . Edinburgh University Library\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/01\/0001865c.jpg?w=228\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/01\/0001865c.jpg 292w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/01\/0001865c-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Song School St Mary, 1897, f.13r<br \/>by Phoebe Anna Traquair, (b.1852, d.1936) . Edinburgh University Library<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are still places available at the forthcoming conference on <a title=\"Death in Modern Scotland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/DeathinModernScotland\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Death in Modern Scotland , 1855: beliefs, attitudes and practices <\/em><\/a>at the School of Divinity, New College Edinburgh, on 1-3 February 2013. Among the speakers is Dr Elizabeth Cumming (Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh; Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow) on\u00a0 \u2018Phoebe Anna Traquair, angels and changing concepts of the supernatural in fin-de-si\u00e8cle Scotland\u2019. This image of one of Phoebe Anna Traquair&#8217;s works is taken from a volume in Edinburgh University Library&#8217;s Special Collections, with further <a title=\"University of Edinburgh Images Collection\" href=\"http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">images available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are still places available at the forthcoming conference on Death in Modern Scotland , 1855: beliefs, attitudes and practices at the School of Divinity, New College Edinburgh, on 1-3 February 2013. Among the speakers is Dr Elizabeth Cumming (Honorary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2013\/01\/31\/walking-with-angels-exploring-death-in-modern-scotland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,53,57,94,135,138,171,185,187],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-i0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}