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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 ›
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 ›
World Book Day – making the books
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 ›
Building a library
Today is National Libraries Day, and it marks the “culmination of a week’s worth of celebrations in school, college, university, workplace and public libraries across the UK.” To celebrate this, Archives Services have unearthed these images in our collections of… Read More ›
National Storytelling Week
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 ›
Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things!
Today, the Design Museum’s Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things exhibition opens in London. On display as part of the exhibition is a design sketch from the Stoddard-Templeton Archive by Marion Dorn Ltd. Dorn was an influential interior and textile designer,… 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 ›
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 ›
WWII Roll of Honour Addition
As the University community joined together for the annual Remembrance Service yesterday in the University Chapel, a new name joined the Roll of those members of the University who served and fell during the First and Second World Wars. James… Read More ›
