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• Philip Hobsbaum (1932-2005): Ghosts in the archive – Francis Berry

  By sammaddra on October 28, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

   history remains first and foremost an encounter with death Arlette Farge, The Lure of the Archives (Yale Univ. Press, 2013), 8. It might appear somewhat obvious to be talking about ghosts in the archive, as archival collections by their very… Read More ›

• Philip Hobsbaum (1932-2005): Ghosts in the archive – Martin Bell

  By sammaddra on October 27, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

   history remains first and foremost an encounter with death Arlette Farge, The Lure of the Archives (Yale Univ. Press, 2013), 8. It might appear somewhat obvious to be talking about ghosts in the archive, as archival collections by their very… Read More ›

• Philip Hobsbaum (1932-2005): Ghosts in the archive – Sylvia Plath

  By sammaddra on October 26, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

   history remains first and foremost an encounter with death Arlette Farge, The Lure of the Archives (Yale Univ. Press, 2013), 8. It might appear somewhat obvious to be talking about ghosts in the archive, as archival collections by their very… Read More ›

• One vote, two votes, three votes, no vote: #Vote100

  By sammaddra on February 6, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Did you know that the University of Glasgow used to be its own constituency? And that graduates got an extra vote? Today, as we commemorate the Centenary of the Act that first gave the vote to some women, University of… Read More ›

• Archibald A Bowman as Officer-Prisoner-of-War, 1918 by Laura Gould

  By sammaddra on November 23, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Papers of Professor Archibald Allan Bowman (1883-1936) (GB 248 DC 077) Archibald Allan Bowman graduated from the University in 1905, was Assistant to the Professor of Logic from 1906-1912, and returned as Professor of Logic and Rhetoric from 1925-1927, and… Read More ›

• Philip Hobsbaum (1932-2005): a ‘servant’ to the ‘makars’….

  By sammaddra on June 29, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  29 June 2017 is the 85th anniversary of the birth of the critic, educator and poet Philip Hobsbaum. To mark the occasion, we are publishing a detailed catalogue of the Group Papers (MS Hobsbaum C) His entry in the Oxford… Read More ›

• Zika Cataloguing Project: second wind

  By sammaddra on May 10, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Blog post by Peter Morphew, Project Cataloguer on Wellcome Trust funded project ‘Improving access to the archives of Professor Alexander John Haddow (1912-1978)’ For most of his medical entomologist career Professor Alexander John Haddow worked for the East African Virus… Read More ›

• Cataloguing Reverend James MacMorland, a rebellious chaplain

  By sammaddra on January 3, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Guest blog post by Olivia Howarth, digital preservation trainee with the SCA Opening Up Scotland’s Archives programme Over the past year, I’ve been privileged enough to work on cataloguing the Papers of Reverend James MacMorland, who was a University of… Read More ›

• The Typist, the Historian and the Scottish Scarlet Pimpernel by Kimberley Beasley

  By sammaddra on December 27, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Whilst cataloguing the papers of John Duncan Mackie (1887-1978) I came across some fascinating letters that had been sent to him and his wife during the time of the Spanish Civil War. They give voice to a young Communist woman… Read More ›

• Brewing up the sweet sourness that is malt vinegar: a blogpost written by Antoinette Seymour

  By sammaddra on August 8, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  UGC 216: The Papers of Cyril David Baxter Creasey (1912-2008) offer a glimpse into the world of malt vinegar brewing through the eyes of a master vinegar brewer   Creasey started work as an apprentice vinegar brewer at Beaufoy Grimble… Read More ›