The University’s Development and Alumni Office is staging a panel debate on 4 March examining the future of printed media. The panel – to be chaired by journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil – will consider the current trends in digital… Read More ›
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Edwin Morgan: Culture Hack!
Special Collections are intrigued and excited to be part of Culture Hack 2012, a 24-hour event that ’…challenges designers, technologists and artists to make innovative new culture-related projects…’ The event theme is Data, Sound + Vision and we are contributing scrapbook images and listings of poems from the papers… Read More ›
Searchroom visitor from Massachusetts: Research into Sugar Mills Machinery
Over the past month, we have welcomed to our Searchroom David Singerman, a PhD student, all the way from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has joined the Centre for Business History in Scotland as an Associate Visiting Researcher and has… Read More ›
International Women’s Day Centenary 1911-2011
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8th every year around the world. The idea of a ‘Women’s Day’ first emerged from the activities of labour movements at the turn of the twentieth century in North America. First observed… Read More ›