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 ›
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 ›
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 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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Today is World Book Day and to celebrate we wanted to give you a glimpse at the book making process through photographs from our publishing archives. We have records from several publishers, most notably Blackie & Sons based in… Read More ›
On Monday February 11th the International Heritage Project provided a pop-up display of documents from Archive Services and Special Collections to support the East Asia Global Regional Activity Briefing (GRAB) Lunch. From Special Collections we selected The History of Japan……. Read More ›
This is National Storytelling Week (26th January – 2nd February). To celebrate, we’ve found some lovely images from chapbooks in the collection of Lumsden family papers (collection reference DC112). The most important of the Lumsdens was Sir James Lumsden of… Read More ›
In support of the Europe Global Regional Activity Briefing (GRAB) Lunch, held on Tuesday January 22nd as part of the University’s Internationalisation Agenda, the International Heritage Project provided a pop-up display of documents from Archive Services and Special Collections. … Read More ›
