Cattle Evolution

Erm, any suggestions?

"Cattle Evolution"

www.scran.ac.uk/000-000-624-482

Copyright: Oxford Designers and Illustrators

Way To Eat

Man, they knew how to eat in the 19th century. On the 6th March 1891, Dundee's Lord Provost Mathewson gave a civic dinner at the Queen's Hotel. Among the twelve courses listed on the menu: turtle soup, lobster cutlets, sweetbreads a la financiere and sorbet au champagne. Oh, and I don't know what fried smelts are but they sound magic...

"The Queen's Hotel Menu Card"

www.scran.ac.uk/000-000-525-564-C

Copyright: Dundee Central Library, Local Studies Collection

Blacking Up

Today's little gem is a theatrical one. This image of David Kemp playing the title role in "Othello" at Wilkie House Theatre in 1964 illustrates the now less-than-PC practice of blacking up to play the famous Moor of Venice.

"David Kemp as Othello"

www.scran.ac.uk/000-000-537-458-C

Copyright: The Scotsman Publications Ltd

Ready, Steady, Scranwhack!

My oh my, where to start? 340, 000 resources to choose from - I'd better pick something good to get this blog off to a decent start...

It can't be anything less than a Scranwhack.

"But what is a Scranwhack?" I hear you plead. You may have heard of Googlewhacking? You may even have tried it. Very nice, darling, but it's so 2002.

It's time to embrace Scranwhacking.

Scranwhacking is the sarced art of finding a single word search term which produces a single record result from the Scran database. Let's get you started with the original and best Scranwhack:

"John MacKenzie grasps a lamb"

www.scran.ac.uk/000-000-201-425-C

Copyright: Hulton Getty

The Scranwhack search term for this record is "spank". Beautiful.

Whack Scran for this record now