Calling all current University of Glasgow students: Did you make use of Special Collections or Archives over the past year? We know that many of you did and we would like to hear from you! Write a short blog on something… Read More ›
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The Frenchman Fighting Forward, by Carol Hunter
If you did a quick internet search of Alfred Mercier, you may come across an American French writer responsible for such works as L’Habitation Saint-Ybars and Le Fou de Palerme. However, if you care to dig a little deeper, another… Read More ›
The International Heritage Project: South East Asia GRAB Lunch
On Wednesday April 24th the International Heritage Project put on a pop up display for the South East Asia GRAB lunch, with items reflecting the University’s links with Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Brunei. From Special collections we had two… Read More ›
Aubrey Fair Boyd, by Fiona Scott
When spending time in the Archives, trying to piece together a life using dates, signatures and brief references in meeting minutes, finding a voice seems an unreasonable hope. In the case of Glasgow Uni student Aubrey Fair Boyd, the unreasonable… Read More ›
‘The Workers’ Coast’ and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd
Here at Archive Services we are pleased to announce that material from our Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd collections is to be featured in the BBC’s new series of Coast! Items from our collection will feature in ‘The Workers’ Coast’ episode,… Read More ›
Students: join the Sp Coll and Archives blogathon!
Swept away by Special Collections? Awed by Archives? If you have been inspired by our collections, now is your chance to share it with the world! We are looking for current University of Glasgow students to contribute posts on Special… Read More ›
Unusual finds in the Archive
Yesterday, one of our volunteers found this sketch of a Scottish Cup design in amongst our plans for Fleming & Ferguson Ltd, Shipbuilders based in Paisley. The material had been used to protect and wrap the ship plans. St Mirren… Read More ›
The International Heritage Project Celebrates Our African Connections
The focus for this month’s Global Regional Activity Briefing was Africa, and the International Heritage Project was delighted to support the event with a display of items from the Library’s heritage collections. The University of Glasgow started to welcome its… Read More ›
Vox Populi – Republican Reality: Scotland and the USA 1790-1820
To coincide with Dr. Emma Macleod’s lecture Republican Reality: Scotland and the USA 1790-1820, the fifth in the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies Vox Populi seminar series, we offer up a tale of two WiIsons. Both were born in… Read More ›
Women at Work
To mark International Women’s Day on Friday 8th March, Archive Services has selected some images from our business collections of women at work. There is a common assumption that women did not properly enter the male dominated spheres of the workplace… Read More ›
