We are very pleased to announce that high quality reproductions of some of the highlights of the Map Collections covering Glasgow are now available from the Online Shop of the University. You’ll find privately surveyed maps showing Glasgow in 1778… Read More ›
England & Wales: The Government has published a Higher Education white paper “Students at the Heart of Education” detailing planned reforms to Universities. The Russell Group (of which the University of Glasgow is a member) has published its response to… Read More ›
Details of another ten books are now available on the project website: Turrecremata, Johannes de: Expositio super toto psalterio Strassburg: [Printer of the 1481 'Legenda Aurea'], 23 Apr. 1482 Scopesus, Bartholomaeus: De arte punctuandi dialogus [Paris]:Antoine Denidel, [between 1498 and… Read More ›
Euing 1.18 Our major collection of black letter broadside ballads, part of the Euing Collection, has been digitised and made available online. Broadsides can be described as a single sheet of paper printed on one side. The Euing ballads date… Read More ›
Ponte outside the newly named Pontecorvo Building In 1995 the Genetics Building was renamed as the Pontecorvo Building in honour of Professor Guido Pontecorvo (1907-1999), the University’s first Professor of Genetics who worked at the University from 1955 to 1968…. Read More ›
The Friends of Glasgow University Library have unveiled an interesting programme of talks and events for 2011, listed in our events calendar on the Library website and in the Friends new illustrated Newsletter. You can find out all about the… Read More ›
This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a series of sketches by H. W. Batley. Henry William Batley (1846-1932) was an artist and furniture and textile designer most widely associated with the Aesthetic Movement. A… Read More ›
We’ve added another new video to our YouTube channel. Narrated by Robbie Ireland and Toby Hanning this is a post conference recording of a Pecha Kucha style presentation delivered to the RLUK Conference 2010. The presentation shows how the University… Read More ›
This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a design by Paris-based designer Hélène Gallet from 1937 and was intended to celebrate the proposed coronation of Edward VIII. But just a few months into his reign, Edward caused… Read More ›
We have been working on the project to catalogue the thousands of sketches and patterns that make up the design archive of the Stoddard – Templeton Collection for almost a month now, and even in this short time, we have… Read More ›
