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Senior Library Assistant, Special Collections

• Alchemy at Glasgow: John Ferguson and his ‘Crowning of Nature’ Manuscripts

  By Sam Gilchrist on September 8, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Guest blog by Dr Anke Timmermann, University of Glasgow Library Fellow in 2019.[1] Health, wealth, and happiness were as desirable in the medieval and early modern period as they are today. However, five hundred years ago it was not science… Read More ›

• 150 years of Gilmorehill: designing the new campus

  By Sam Gilchrist on May 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  by Andrew Mackay, History of Art placement student in Archives and Special Collections.  For centuries, the University of Glasgow had been located on the High Street of Glasgow. However, come the 1800s it became clear that a change was necessary…. Read More ›

• ASC Rewind: Writings on the Calendar by the Venerable Bede

  By Sam Gilchrist on April 9, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  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 on January 2001 by Julie Gardham and the full… Read More ›

• International Women’s Day 2020

  By Sam Gilchrist on March 6, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  This International Women’s Day the University of Glasgow is celebrating women, and their roles and achievements in the University, by recreating a 19th century image of University professors and staff. The image is dramatically titled ‘The Exodus from the Old… Read More ›

• The David Murray Book Collecting Prize 2019-20

  By Sam Gilchrist on October 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The David Murray Book Collecting Prize is now open to applications from all currently registered University of Glasgow students. Read on to find out more about how to enter and your chance to win £500! The purpose of the prize… Read More ›

• The David Murray Book Collecting Prize 2018

  By Sam Gilchrist on October 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The David Murray Book Collecting Prize is now open to submissions from all current University of Glasgow students with an interest in collecting. This can consist of printed books, printed ephemera, manuscripts, photographic material, or a combination of these, with… Read More ›

• Dye-versity and #PerkinPatterns – an update!

  By Sam Gilchrist on June 28, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Guest blog by Dr Anita Quye, CChem MRSC, Senior Lecturer in Conservation Science and Head of History of Art, University of Glasgow. One year ago this month we published a guest blog on Anita’s Dye-versity project and put out a… Read More ›

• William Hunter’s Tercentenary

  By Sam Gilchrist on May 23, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  23 May 2018 marks the 300th anniversary of William Hunter’s birth. Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) was an anatomist, physician, teacher of medicine and man-midwife. Today we view him as major figure in the Enlightenment and in the development of museums… Read More ›

• Explore Your Archive 2017

  By Sam Gilchrist on November 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s Explore Your Archive time again! Explore Your Archive is a campaign coordinated jointly by The National Archives and the Archives and Records Association with the archives and records sector across the UK and Ireland where the aim is to… Read More ›

• Behind the Scenes: The Cataloguing Forum visit The Photographic Unit

  By Sam Gilchrist on May 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Collaboration with the Photographic Unit is key to so many of the activities that Archives and Special Collections undertake, helping us to promote our collections and make them more accessible. This meeting of the cataloguing forum consisted of Laura Stevens… Read More ›