A new exhibition exploring Scottish connections with the transatlantic slave trade, plantation slavery and abolition, is now open to view in Am Fosglan (Level 2 of the Library). The exhibition is curated by students from Professor Simon Newman’s History Special… Read More ›
I have a confession to make: I am a parchment-bindomaniac. A vellum-case addict. I can’t get enough of the things. And there is just one man responsible for my condition: Professor Nicholas Pickwoad, conservator, bookbinding historian, Director of the Ligatus… Read More ›
Today’s update of Archive Services’ online catalogue sees the launch of our new catalogue for the Blackhouse Charters, some of the earliest records held within the University Archives. Although the University of Glasgow was created in 1451 at the instigation… Read More ›
Calling all current University of Glasgow students: Did you make use of Special Collections or Archives over the past year? We know that many of you did and we would like to hear from you! Write a short blog on something… Read More ›
On Wednesday April 24th the International Heritage Project put on a pop up display for the South East Asia GRAB lunch, with items reflecting the University’s links with Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Brunei. From Special collections we had two… Read More ›
As we are now approaching exam time, we are introducing temporary access arrangements for students from other universities and colleges until the end of the exam period. From Tuesday 2nd April until Friday 31st May, students from other UK institutions… Read More ›
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To celebrate the opening of the new Hunterian Art Gallery exhibition: ‘This Unrivalled Collection’: The Hunterian’s first catalogue, our latest Flickr set features relevant items from Special Collections, some of which feature in the exhibition. There will also be a… Read More ›
The focus for this month’s Global Regional Activity Briefing was Africa, and the International Heritage Project was delighted to support the event with a display of items from the Library’s heritage collections. The University of Glasgow started to welcome its… Read More ›
To coincide with Dr. Emma Macleod’s lecture Republican Reality: Scotland and the USA 1790-1820, the fifth in the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies Vox Populi seminar series, we offer up a tale of two WiIsons. Both were born in… Read More ›
On Monday February 11th the International Heritage Project provided a pop-up display of documents from Archive Services and Special Collections to support the East Asia Global Regional Activity Briefing (GRAB) Lunch. From Special Collections we selected The History of Japan……. Read More ›
