This category is used for posts created by archives and special collections staff from August 2016.
At 11.00am today students from the College of Science and Engineering will be graduating from the University of Glasgow. To celebrate, we thought it would be interesting to look back at some international engineers who graduated BSc 100 years ago…… Read More ›
Today students from the College of Science and Engineering, the College of Social Sciences and the College of Arts will be receiving their degrees and moving on to the next stage in their life. To celebrate, we looked at two… Read More ›
The Association of Business Historians (ABH) 2017 Conference will be hosted by the Centre for Business History in Scotland and will be held at the Hilton Grosvenor Hotel, Glasgow on 29th June to 1st July 2017. The theme for the… Read More ›
Graduation season is upon us! Here at Archives and Special Collection, we have uploaded the graduates from 100 years ago to our University Story website to celebrate. The class of 1917 (and all other UofG graduates from over 100 years… Read More ›
Each month The Archives Hub highlights an archive or collection on its ‘Features’ page, in order to promote new research and resources. This month the Erskine Hospital collection has been featured – you can read the full article here. June 2017… Read More ›
One name dominates Hunter’s library catalogue in the ‘G’ section of William Hunter’s library: Galen.
Galen (129-c. 210) was a Greek philosopher-physician who summarised anatomical learning up to his time and added his own observations on human anatomy based on dissections of monkeys and pigs. Galen was influenced by the theory of the humours advocated by Hippocrates and other ancient Greek physicians.
Guest blog by Anita Quye, Senior Lecturer in Conservation Science at the University’s Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History. Her work on the Dye-versity project has combined textile history and chemical analysis to further our understanding of synthetic dyes… Read More ›
