Author Archives

• Guest Post: Archivists Help Women’s History Hunt, Help Uncover Family Mysteries

  By Catriona on March 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Guest blog by Bernadette Cahill, a University of Glasgow alumna and historian, whose research focuses on women’s rights and the suffrage movement in the UK. When I began hunting for more information on a story my mother told me in… Read More ›

• Walter Birnie, seventeenth-century blind preacher

  By Catriona on January 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  A guest blog written by Dr Iain Hutchison, Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow The University Collection holds three Muniments that make reference to Walter Birnie, blind preacher. These are: A petition from Birnie to the University, presented on… Read More ›

• ‘Behind the Tartan Curtain’: Edwin Morgan in the University of Glasgow Archive

  By Catriona on September 17, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Blog post contributed by Catriona Perry, Graduate Trainee, Archives &Special Collections Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) was Glasgow’s first Poet Laureate and Scotland’s first National Poet (The Scots Makar), and had a long association with the University of Glasgow. To mark the… Read More ›

• ASC Rewind: The Fall of Princes

  By Catriona on April 16, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  This series revisits our Book of the Month archive to highlight some of our favourite articles and explore the ASC collections they describe with new eyes.This article was originally published in February 2009 by Julie Gardham and the full article… Read More ›