Guest blog by Lindsay Middleton, fourth year PhD researcher across the University of Aberdeen and the University of Glasgow. The connections between food and health are even more longstanding than the formal use of medicine. In previous centuries, there were no distinctions… Read More ›
Archives and Special Collections
Scrapbooking Old English with Edwin Morgan – ‘the nerves must sometimes tingle and the skin flush’.
Guest blog post by Dr Francesca Brooks, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of York with the Department of English and Related Literature, and University of Glasgow Library Research Fellow In the preface to his 1952 translation of Beowulf,… Read More ›
Sugar Machines: How Archives in Glasgow hold pieces of Caribbean History
Guest blog post by Dr Christine Whyte, Lecturer in Global History, University of Glasgow On 20 May, in response to the #MuseumsUnlocked discussion, Twitter user @j4lebi asked: It strikes me that conversations tend to centre around “loot”. These are, of… Read More ›
Book of the Month: The Temple of Flora [Sp Coll e23]
This series revisits our Book of the Month archive to highlight some of our favourite articles and explore the ASC collections they describe with fresh eyes. This article was originally published on April 2000 by Julie Coleman and the full article can still be found on our website in the Book… Read More ›
Alchemy at Glasgow: John Ferguson and his ‘Crowning of Nature’ Manuscripts
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 ›
ASC Rewind: The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow
This series revisits our Book of the Month archive to highlight some of our favourite articles and explore the ASC collections they describe with fresh eyes. This article was originally published in March 2006 and the full article can still… Read More ›
How to groom an EMu
The decision of the Archives & Special Collections department to invest in EMu as the preferred collection management system was clear. Firstly, EMu could store and attach multimedia files to catalogue records – a feature that amongst other things… Read More ›
Imagining Scotland’s Past: Epic and Satirical Illustrations from the 18th and 19th Centuries.
As UofGASC begin to welcome a new cohort of placement students, it seems a fitting opportunity to publish the work of one of last year’s Museum Studies students. Guest blog post by Antonios Chaliakopoulos, Museum Studies placement student I completed… Read More ›
Peeking into book biographies with Blackie publishing contracts
Guest blog post by Lucy Janes, Master’s Student in Information Management & Preservation at the University of Glasgow. Books have their own biographies and the traces of their ‘lives’ can be found in records such as those of Blackie & Son Ltd, a Glasgow publishing company founded… Read More ›
Sally the Midwife: Enslaved Medical Practitioners and Historical Erasure
Guest blog post by Linsey McMillan, PhD Student in History, University of Edinburgh. This article was written by PhD student Linsey McMillan in conjunction with the current exhibition Call and Response: The University of Glasgow and Slavery. The exhibition seeks… Read More ›