In late December we were visited by two researchers who, as part of a small team, will be putting together a series of thought provoking audio tours at the McMillan Reading Room. Our visitors, director of the project, Sarah Bradley… Read More ›
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The International Heritage Project welcomes Japanese school children from Ninohe City
My first full week in the post of International Heritage Project support officer saw my inaugural visit on the afternoon of Friday 11th January, when Glasgow University Library hosted a small, but very important Japanese delegation. The party was composed… Read More ›
Searchroom Visit: John Wylie & Co Connecting Glasgow and Buenos Aires
In the lead up to our Christmas break we were joined in the Searchroom by Professor David Rock a Latin American historian based at the University of California in Santa Barbara. Throughout his career the history of Argentina has been… Read More ›
Archive Services now tweeting!
Archive Services have recently joined Twitter, you can follow us @guarchives. We will be using twitter to stay in touch with our users, promote our collections, link across to this blog and the content on our website and flickr. It… Read More ›
Thankyou for the feedback!
You may remember being asked to fill out a survey back at the end of October if you visited Special Collections and/or Archives Services. Between our two reading rooms, we were delighted to receive 75 completed forms providing us with… Read More ›
Images of New Lanark Mills Archive collection
Woman operating machine at New Lanark Mills Archive Services have recently created a set on Flickr for some of the images relating to New Lanark Mills archive material that is part of the Gourock Ropeworks Co Ltd collection (UGD 42)…. Read More ›
Walter Gilbert’s carvings in the Memorial Chapel
Last week Glasgow University Archive Services were contacted by Gordon Lawson enquiring about the carving in the University’s Memorial Chapel. Gordon is presently compiling a Wikipedia article about the work of the British Sculptor Walter Gilbert, along with an illustrated… Read More ›
Jimmy Reid: Addition to the archive
Archive Services have posted in the past about the James Reid collection: launching our Jimmy Reid flickr set and sharing news about the Scottish National Portrait Gallery’s Jimmy Who? project, and we have more news to share! Last week a… Read More ›
Meet the Archivists
This Friday, the 9th November the first Scottish ‘Meet the Archivists‘ event will take place at the University of Glasgow. This FREE workshop aims to encourage students and academic researchers to make the most of Business Archives by bringing together… Read More ›
The EMU annual magazine: featuring Lochhead, Kelman and Torrington
The University of Glasgow has a long history of offering part-time courses for adults. The Centre for Open Studies was formerly known as the Department of Adult and Continuing Education and during the early 1970s four issues of an annual… Read More ›
