Glasgow Thistle Hotel (link to map showing event location) Thursday 29th march 2012 A European Jobs Day (EJD) is an event held throughout the Member States of the European Economic Area (EEA). Its aim is to promote opportunities to work… Read More ›
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Einstein at Glasgow University
133 years ago today, in Ulm, Germany, Albert Einstein was born. To celebrate the Birthday of the great Theoretical Physicist, born on the 14th March 1879, we have had a look in our archives for memories of his visit to… Read More ›
Biography of Edwin Morgan is Research Book of the Year
Special Collections is delighted that James McGonigal’s biography of the celebrated Scottish poet Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) has won the Saltire Society’s Research Book of the Year Award. Professor McGonigal has been a regular visitor to our reading room over the last few… Read More ›
University of Glasgow Library and the UK Research Reserve
The UK Research Reserve (UKRR) is a collaborative distributed national research collection managed by a partnership between the Higher Education sector and the British Library. It allows Higher Education libraries to de-duplicate their journal holdings of a title if two… Read More ›
Martin Luther – the book as a force for change?
Special Collections has now finished cataloguing a fascinating collection of 35 religious tracts and sermons written by Martin Luther and published during his lifetime. Luther was one of the founding fathers of the Reformation, the Protestant movement that swept through… Read More ›
New Lanark Collection at Archive Services
In response to the earlier post about the Robert Owen and New Lanark display on Level 7 of the library we just wanted to let people know that we have a collection of Records of New Lanark Mills, cotton manufacturers,… Read More ›
100 Hundred World Changing Achievements in 100 Years
Professor Steve Beaumont, Vice-Principal for Research & Enterprise, launched the University of Glasgow World Changing website at 2pm on Thursday 10 March 2011. The University World Changing website celebrates the staff and alumni of the University of Glasgow whose innovations,… Read More ›
“Britain’s got talent” – what was happening 100 years ago ?
The Library now has access to a wonderful collection of primary source materials depicting the world of the Victorian Music Hall, Theatre and Popular entertainment, part of the database suite “Victorian Popular Culture” . This was the “Golden Age” of… Read More ›
Glasgow Guardian Digital Archive
I came to the University of Glasgow from the Ecole Nationale des Chartes in Paris in January 2010 to study as an Erasmus student on the Information Management and Preservation course at the Humanities and Advanced Technological Institute (HATII). Once… Read More ›
Gem from the Archive
This month we’re very pleased that records from the Scottish Business Archive have been featured as Who Do You Think You Are? magazine’s Gem from the Archive. The Managers & Assistants Letterbooks from the James Finlay & Co Archive contain… Read More ›
