Here at Archive Services we are pleased to announce that material from our Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd collections is to be featured in the BBC’s new series of Coast! Items from our collection will feature in ‘The Workers’ Coast’ episode,… Read More ›
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‘Jimmy Who?’- The UCS Work-in and the National Portrait Gallery
We recently welcomed Martin O’Connor, who wanted to look through our Jimmy Reid collection, to our searchroom here at the archives. Martin works for ‘Visible Fictions Theatre Company’ who are taking part in the first major community outreach project for… Read More ›
Jimmy Reid, Scottish Hero
On the first anniversary of the death of the Trade Union leader and former Rector of the University of Glasgow, an exhibition commemorating the life of Jimmy Reid has been launched on Archive Services’ Flickr site
“Reject the Rat Race!”
Jimmy Reid who died this week was University Rector from 1971 to 1974. Born in Govan, he became a shipyard worker and trade union official. He was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and was elected a… Read More ›
