This category was used for posts created by archives staff before August 2016. Since then all posts are categorised as Archives and Special Collections posts.
Photography Scotland’s Season of Photography runs this year from September-November. To mark the event, I have been challenged to explore the photographs contained within our business collections, and to consider their unique value in archival research. When we conjure an… Read More ›
By Astrid Purton and Roz Ryan-Mills Our year as graduate trainees at the University of Glasgow Archive Services is drawing to a close and what a year it has been! Words cannot express just how much we’ve learnt in the… Read More ›
Guest blog post by Olivia Howarth, digital preservation trainee with the SCA Opening Up Scotland’s Archives programme. Over the past three weeks I’ve been undergoing a conservation project with the Archive’s conservator Ela, surveying embossing presses in the… Read More ›
As France celebrates le 14 juillet, the day which symbolically marks the beginning of the 1789 French Revolution, we turn to our International story to draw out French Connections in the University of Glasgow. Since its foundation in 1451 members… Read More ›
The second anniversary of the Wellcome Trust funded project, Digitisation of Mental Healthcare Archives, is almost here. The project team have produced over 250, 000 images of artefacts, documents, volumes, artworks and photographs from across the Gartnavel and Crichton collections…. Read More ›
Today marks the end of our graduation series of blog posts, as the final group of newly graduated students will be receiving their scrolls at 2pm at the Crichton Memorial Church, Dumfries Campus. We’ve been looking back at students who graduated 100… Read More ›
#OnThisDay 1st July 1916 the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest battles of the Great War, commenced. The battle raged for five months drawing to an end on the 18 November 1916. In total an estimated 1 million… Read More ›
