Author Archives
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ASC Rewind: Rerum moscoviticarum commentarii
This series revisits our Book of the Month archive to highlight some of our favourite articles and explore the ASC collections they describe with fresh eyes. This article was originally published in August 2007 by Sarah Hepworth and the full… Read More ›
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Queen Mary’s gift, 1563 – by Meghan Rathbun
This is the last of three blog posts by Meghan Rathbun, who did a placement with Archive Services working with the early records of the University of Glasgow while an MSc Museum Studies student in 2014/15. (She previously completed an… Read More ›
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Mary, Marie: correcting attribution – by Meghan Rathbun
This is the second of three blog posts by Meghan Rathbun, who did a placement with Archive Services working with the early records of the University of Glasgow while an MSc Museum Studies student in 2014/15. (She previously completed an… Read More ›
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Reformation-era travels of early university records – by Meghan Rathbun
This is the first of three blog posts by Meghan Rathbun, who did a placement with Archive Services working with the early records of the University of Glasgow while an MSc Museum Studies student in 2014/15. (She previously completed an… Read More ›
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Connecting with family and Glasgow history on work experience placement
This summer we had secondary school pupil Rachel McKenzie with us for a week’s work placement. In this post she shares some of her experiences. Thank you again, Rachel, for your hard work and enthusiasm! As an enthusiastic history student,… Read More ›
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The University in the High Street: The Hamilton Charter – by Meghan Rathbun
The University of Glasgow, as Scotland’s second oldest institution of higher education, has a unique history spanning two locations in the city. Prior to the move to Gilmorehill in the nineteenth century, the University continuously occupied a location on the… Read More ›
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Exhibition: the University Chapel as a war memorial – by Rebecca Roper
Over the past few months, I have been working with Archive Services for a Club 21 internship researching, curating, and installing an exhibition on the University Chapel as a War Memorial. This installation has just gone up and you can… Read More ›
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CTR Wilson: Scotland’s First Physics Nobel Prize Winner – Hunterian Insight Talk
Date: 17 March 2015 Time: 1pm Speaker: Dr Alec MacKinnon, Centre for Open Studies Location: Hunterian Museum (Article by Dr Alec MacKinnon:) Charles Thomson Rees (“CTR”) Wilson was the first Scot to win the Nobel Prize in Physics – still… Read More ›
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Club 21: New Lanark Visitor Book transcription – by Michael Black
During this summer I had the chance to join the team at Archive Services to complete a Club 21 project. Following the recent conservation and digitisation of two Visitor Books from the New Lanark Mills collection, I worked on transcribing… Read More ›
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Sports History: how our campus has evolved to meet a growing interest in physical education
By Natalia Masewicz and Victoria Scott This summer, with the Commonwealth Games captivating the imagination of both Scottish nation and tourists from abroad, sport has taken over the city of Glasgow. This interest in physical activities is not just a… Read More ›