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 ›
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Business history and archives – ABH 2017
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 ›
Celebrating 80 years of the Queen Mary
Today, 27th May 2016, marks the 80th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the RMS Queen Mary. Following construction at John Brown’s shipyard on the Clyde, the Queen Mary set sail from Southampton, arriving in New York on 1st June… Read More ›
Connecting with family and Glasgow history on work experience placement
This summer we had secondary school pupil Rachel McKenzie with us for a week’s work placement. In this post she shares some of her experiences. Thank you again, Rachel, for your hard work and enthusiasm! As an enthusiastic history student,… Read More ›
Monthly Collections Blog: Some Highlights from GUAS
As we near the end of our traineeships here at Glasgow University Archive Services (hereafter GUAS), we dedicate this month’s collections blog to some of our personal highlights from the archives. Popular favourites within the GUAS repositories are our textile… Read More ›
Fashion and consumption in the First World War
Interested in fashion, business history, shopping or the home front during WW1? Then, you may be interested in new online exhibition featuring department store catalogues from 1916 & 1917. The Fashion and consumption in the First World War project (Institute… Read More ›
Monthly Collections Blog Post: William Collins Archive
For May’s collection blog, we thought we’d turn to one of our readers to see how our collections are being used out in the field. A few weeks ago, Robyn Pritzker, an MSc Book History student at the University of… Read More ›
The survivors of the SS City of Cairo and rescue by the Bendoran
The BBC this week covered the story of a trove of silver rupees that were recovered from aboard the SS City of Cairo by a British-led team of divers. The silver coins were called in by the British Government to… Read More ›
Darning Scotland’s Textile Heritage
This week Archive Services learned that our application to the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Collecting Cultures programme back in May had been successful. The collecting cultures programme was established to allow organisations to add to their core collections through strategic purchases…. Read More ›
Annual Scottish Maritime History Conference
In two weeks time, on Wednesday 22nd October, the Annual Scottish Maritime History Conference will take place at the Riverside Museum. The conference will features talks by the following researchers: Dr Roy Fenton, Ships in Focus Publications ‘Tramps: Ocean and… Read More ›