Author Archives
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It’s Games time!
Tonight, after months and years of anticipation and preparation, the curtain finally goes up on the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games! Fourteen black and gold sports stars are poised to represent Scotland and Pakistan, and two of us from Archives and… Read More ›
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New perspectives on Mackintosh the architect
2014 has already proved a very moving and meaningful year for two of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s best-known buildings. However, perhaps surprisingly, the entirety of his work as an architect has not yet come under the same scrutiny as the Glasgow… Read More ›
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Discovering LGBTI rights in Archives and Special Collections
by Nicky Imrie and Sam Gilchrist Preparations for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games have already prompted a huge response of activities, events and discussion, sports-related and beyond. On Friday 18 July, just five days before the start of the Games,… Read More ›
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Prologue and progress: the Boat Club connects with its archive
Our series on University sports history continues now in a tone fitting for the graduation period and this year of commemoration as current Boat Club publicity officer, Emma Baxter, reflects on the Club’s recent archival discoveries. Act II, Scene I… Read More ›
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Commemoration Day 2014
Today is Commemoration Day, the day on which the founding of the University in 1451 is celebrated each year. As well commemorating the University’s benefactors, celebrations include the conferring of honorary degrees by the Chancellor. With just 35 days to… Read More ›
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Alumni Memories of the Glasgow University Mountaineering Club, part two: the 1970s
This is the second of Katie Berry’s two-part blog on the history of the Glasgow University Mountaineering Club told via the stories of alumni from the club. In addition to members from the 1940s and 1950s I also managed to… Read More ›
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Alumni Memories of the Glasgow University Mountaineering Club, part one: the 1940s and 50s
Our series on the history of University sport continues with the first of two posts of selected memories of the Glasgow University Mountaineering Club collected and compiled by Katie Berry. After researching some of history of the Glasgow University Mountaineering… Read More ›
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‘Under the present circumstances’: Glasgow University Athletic Club in Wartime
by Catriona Donaldson As my second article for archive services I decided to look into the running of the Glasgow University Athletic Club (GUAC) during the years it was affected by the First and Second World Wars. Surprisingly, it was… Read More ›
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Researching our sports stars of the past
Our series of posts on the history of University sport continues with Mathilde Renauld’s engaging report on her Club 21 placement investigating historical alumni and staff who took part in the early Commonwealth Games, and the painstaking, challenging and enjoyable… Read More ›
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The Commonwealth on Campus: perspectives on international student mobility
By Nicky Imrie and Antoinette Seymour Last week the University of Glasgow’s Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change and the Centre for Research & Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL) hosted the first major on-campus Commonwealth event of this… Read More ›