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Business Collections: James Porteous & Co Ltd, woollen manufacturers
Today sees the launch of our James Porteous & Co Ltd catalogue. The company produced high grade scotch tweed, overcoats and flannels from Clackmannanshire. The collection includes promotional materials, minutes, as well as the production book pictured below: The book contains hand written weaving processes, colour combinations and lengths of yarn. James Porteous & Co … Continue reading
PUDS Blog: Radio 4 Today
This morning the Radio 4 programme Today broadcast a feature about the Wellcome Library’s ‘Modern Genetics and its Foundations’ project. The Wellcome Library is bringing the papers of the pioneers of modern genetics together in one place for the first time as part of a ground-breaking digitisation project, which includes material from leading figures from … Continue reading
Olive Winchester: Celebrating 100 years of women’s ordination in the UK
Born in Monson, Maine (USA), in 1879, Olive May Winchester was the first woman to be admitted to study for and to graduate with a Bachelor of Divinity degree at the University of Glasgow. While in Glasgow, Olive became a member of the Pentecostal Church of Scotland and taught in their Bible school, gaining the … Continue reading
PUDS Blog: Photovision 2012
On 27th March 2012 the University of Glasgow’s Photographic Unit descended on Photovision 2012; the photographic trade show, this year held at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh. The event held annually and across the UK, hosted a variety of industry professional service providers, seminars and presentations. A number of the exhibitors at Photovision are … Continue reading
Laing film artist in running for Turner Prize
Glasgow-based artist Luke Fowler has been nominated for this year’s Turner Prize for his art film All Divided Selves (2011), the third in a trilogy of films which explore the life of R.D. Laing. Luke has previously worked with the R.D. Laing collection held here in Special Collections, which was catalogued with funding from the … Continue reading
Back to school for Special Collections
As well as being available to researchers, items from our collections are also in demand for exhibitions. Currently, pamphlets from the Bissett Collection are on show at Scotland Street School Museum in The Glasgow Schools, part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. Artist Ruth Ewan has produced poster works and a documentary on … Continue reading
Friends of Glasgow University Library Talk
The latest Friends of Glasgow University Library talk will be held on Tuesday 24th April at 7pm, in the MacKenna Room, on level 7 of the library. Dr Hilary Macartney will be talking about the subject of her current research: The First Photographically Illustrated Book on Art: The Talbotypes Volume of William Stirling’s Annals of the Artists … Continue reading
Thomas Ferguson Rodger: University’s first Professor of Psychological Medicine
In 1949 Thomas Ferguson Rodger became the University’s first Professor of Psychological Medicine, a position he was to hold until his retirement in 1973. Born in Glasgow, Rodger attended North Kelvinside School and studied at the University, graduating BSc (1927) and MB ChB (1929). After completing his post-graduate medical training he became assistant to Sir … Continue reading
My experience as a trainee at GUAS
After having completed a voluntary placement at the Lothian Health Services Archive and a Club 21 placement at GUAS, I realised that I wanted to pursue a career in the world of archives. I was very fortunate to gain the one-year, full-time position as an Archive Assistant (Graduate Trainee) at GUAS in July 2011. My … Continue reading
PUDS Blog: The archivist’s choice
As today’s post I would like to share some of my favourite images of the 3 Glasgow geneticists, whose papers are presently being digitised having been selected for inclusion in the Wellcome Digital Library’s Modern Genetics and its Foundations. Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo (1907-1999) Pontecorvo (second on right facing the camera) having a drink with … Continue reading
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