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I started work at the University of Glasgow Archive Services as a graduate trainee, before completing the Information Management and Preservation MSc at the University. I now work on the Great War Project and do cataloguing, as well as doing a PhD in HATII and also working on ScotlandsPlaces.

• The Strange Case of the Electric Shock Machine: The Plot Thickens

  By kimberleybeasley on August 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Our last blog post described the discovery of an intriguing electric shock device which was donated to the Hunterian along with some papers that are now in the archive. Working together, the Hunterian and Archive Services have found out more… Read More ›

• The Strange Case of the Electric Shock Machine

  By kimberleybeasley on July 31, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Recently when looking through the deposit files (which give information about when a collection came to an archive) of University of Glasgow Archive Services, an archivist came across an intriguing note about the papers of David Birrell Campbell:   “Further… Read More ›

• #WFJAlbum: The Summer of 1914

  By kimberleybeasley on July 30, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    Today the #WFJAlbum project draws to a close. Over the last few months we have been following the travels of William Fulton Jackson across Scotland in 1914, whose extensive photo albums with detailed captions allow us to know the… Read More ›

• #WFJAlbum: An Edwardian Dog

  By kimberleybeasley on July 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

        It is impossible to go through the albums of William Fulton Jackson without seeing images of his beloved pet, Snark the dog. More than one Snark features in the albums, Snark III and Snark IV, presumably Jackson… Read More ›

• Graduation 2014/1914: Brilliant BScs

  By kimberleybeasley on July 1, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Today marks the beginning of graduations in the College of Science and Engineering and so to celebrate we are looking at some BSc graduates from one hundred years ago.   John Vernon Harrison, born in South Africa, graduated BSc in… Read More ›

• Graduation 2014/1914: Magnificent MBChBs

  By kimberleybeasley on June 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  To celebrate today’s graduation of the medical students, we’re looking at a couple of international medics who graduated one hundred years ago and went on to be very successful in their field.   Isabella Henrietta Younger continued the burgeoning tradition… Read More ›

• GRAB Lunch: Student Mobility

  By kimberleybeasley on June 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

      Last week Archive Services attended a GRAB lunch which looked at student mobility. Of course the lunch focused on the present day and the importance of students being able to study abroad. However the presence of Archive Services… Read More ›

• #WFJAlbum: An Edwardian School Trip

  By kimberleybeasley on June 9, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

      In June 1914 St Mary’s Church Sunday School went on a trip to Niddrie, on the outskirts of Edinburgh. As a member of the United Free Church, which encompassed St Mary’s Sunday School, WF Jackson took some photographs… Read More ›

• International Nurses’ Day 2014

  By kimberleybeasley on May 12, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  This is a joint blog post from our three graduate trainees: Kim Beasley and Callum Morrison at the University of Glasgow Archive Services and Michelle Craig of the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archives. This year’s International Nurses Day theme… Read More ›

• Introducing #WFJAlbum: Follow the life and leisure of William Fulton Jackson

  By kimberleybeasley on May 9, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Today University of Glasgow Archive Services launches a new project following the life and travels of William Fulton Jackson. William Fulton Jackson, born in Glasgow in 1855, was the General Manager of the North British Railway Company. Whilst his success… Read More ›