Since Halloween is almost upon us, I thought I’d share this photograph I came across in our Coats PLC collection: Can you spot what looks like a rather ghostly apparition at the bottom left hand side?! J & P Coats… Read More ›
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Heritage Beasts
To celebrate World Animal Day today, the people behind Follow An Archive and Ask Archivists have organised a Twitter event around the hashtag #heritagebeasts. At Archive Services we have selected some images from the Records of United Turkey Red Co Ltd, bleachers, finishers and… Read More ›
Searchroom Visit: Glaswegian Textile Manufacture- J&P Coats and United Turkey Red
We recently welcomed, to the searchroom, Dr Aashish Velkar who has been researching our records of Glaswegian textile firms such as J&P Coats and United Turkey Red. Aashish is a lecturer in Economic History at the University of Manchester and teaches on subjects… 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 ›
