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Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Corporate Archive: Staff Records
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 is the context they provide when taken collectively. Templeton was at one time the largest employer … Continue reading
Stoddard-Templeton Archive Open Afternoon
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 collection and the services available to support teaching and research. This event is aimed at … Continue reading
Hastie Steering Gear
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 of a ship’s steering gear (usually the indicator plate, which includes the name of the … Continue reading
Inventors of Tradition
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 archives by the artist Lucy McKenzie and designer Beca Lipscombe (Atelier). From Glasgow Green to … Continue reading
Scotland’s 100 oldest companies
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 House. The limited company has allowed Scottish businesses and community groups to flourish and grow … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Art Nouveau
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 already discovered lots of interesting, varied and beautiful designs – so many in fact, that … Continue reading
Business Archives in Italy
Two articles about the work of the Archive Services have recently been published in the English edition of an Italian online journal called Culture e Impresa. This is a journal that publishes articles related to archives, culture and business and is linked to the Centre for Corporate Culture in Milan. I wrote an article about the Ballast Trust, … Continue reading
House of Fraser 160th Anniversary celebrations
On the 18th of November I attended the opening of the Heritage Gallery in the House of Fraser store in Glasgow, on behalf of Archive Services. This event marked the beginning of a number of celebrations to mark the 160th Anniversary of the department store, which was founded in 1849, when partners Hugh Fraser and … Continue reading
House of Fraser 160th Anniversary celebrations
Last night I attended the opening of the Heritage Gallery in the House of Fraser store in Glasgow, on behalf of Archive Services. This event marked the beginning of a number of celebrations to mark the 160th Anniversary of the department store, which was founded in 1849, when partners Hugh Fraser and James Arthur opened … Continue reading
Clyde shipyard records survey
As part of my Graduate Traineeship I recently visited a Clyde shipyard with David Powell, Surveying Officer of the Business Archives Council of Scotland. We had planned to make a quick pick up of the records the business had identified as archives and no longer needed for business purposes. It soon became apparent that this … Continue reading
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