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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
This week’s Friday Gem is actually several items from the Stoddard Templeton Corporate Archive which bring to life the people behind the carpets. It’s difficult to single out an individual item from the Corporate Archive as the real strength of the corporate records… Read More ›
On Friday 20th May, Archive Services is hosting an open afternoon (2pm-4pm) to highlight the potential of the Stoddard-Templeton Archive for teaching and research. Items from the design and corporate archives will be on display, with short presentations on the… Read More ›
Here at Archive Services we hold a collection of records for John Hastie & Co. Ltd, steering gear manufacturers, on behalf of the National Archives of Scotland (collection ref. GD444). We therefore receive enquiries from people who have acquired part… Read More ›
This exhibition celebrates Scotland’s textile industry from the 1930s to the present day. It brings together samples of textile design from Scotland’s designers and textile companies, a series of documentary films about these companies and new works inspired by these… Read More ›
This month David Luck, the Business Archives Council of Scotland (BACS) Surveying Officer working at the University of Glasgow, will start a new project to map out the existing records of the hundred oldest Scottish Companies still registered with Company… Read More ›
We have been working on the project to catalogue the thousands of sketches and patterns that make up the design archive of the Stoddard – Templeton Collection for almost a month now, and even in this short time, we have… Read More ›
