Over the past few months, I have been working with Archive Services for a Club 21 internship researching, curating, and installing an exhibition on the University Chapel as a War Memorial. This installation has just gone up and you can… Read More ›
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Defending The Boyd Orr
Posted on behalf of our Club 21 volunteer Lauren Moffat. The name ‘Boyd Orr’ is usually not spoken of favourably at the Gilmorehill campus. More often than not you might overhear students moaning about having classes there accompanied by further complaints… Read More ›
Origins of the James Watt Engineering Building
The Gilmorehill Story continues with the construction of the James Watt Engineering Building! When you look into the history of the origins of the James Watt building, it becomes apparent how instrumental one man in particular, Archibald Barr, was in… Read More ›
The Story of Pearce Lodge
The first post of the Gilmorehill Story Project comes to us from our Club 21 volunteer Lauren Moffat! Pearce Lodge is unique amongst the University buildings at Gilmorehill in that it exists as a material connection to the University’s old site on… Read More ›
The Gilmorehill Story Project
Hello! I’m Amanda and I’m the Project Officer for the The Gilmorehill Story Project. Archive Services are currently creating a website detailing the rich history of each building located on the University’s Gilmorehill campus. In the summer of 2014 Lauren… Read More ›
Glasgow World War One Commemoration: a blogpost by Demi Boyd
On the evening of November 11th 2014 Glasgow’s experience of World War One was commemorated with a light show projected on to Glasgow City Chambers. The display, which lasted 27 minutes and was played on a loop at intervals from… Read More ›
Exploring the University’s Historical International Connections by Susan Yule
My name is Susan Yule and I have just completed a work experience placement with the University of Glasgow Archive Services, through the University’s Club 21 internship scheme. I have also just finished studying the MSc Information Management and Preservation… Read More ›
Club 21: New Lanark Visitor Book transcription – by Michael Black
During this summer I had the chance to join the team at Archive Services to complete a Club 21 project. Following the recent conservation and digitisation of two Visitor Books from the New Lanark Mills collection, I worked on transcribing… Read More ›
Something to be Proud of: The Rectorial Election Campaigns since the 1870s, part 2
By Fraser McGowan, University of Glasgow Club 21 student. Find part 1 covering 1870s-1905 here. Following on from the previous post, we now move on to the 1908 campaign which was the first in which a Labour candidate for the… Read More ›
Something to be Proud of: The Rectorial Election Campaigns since the 1870s, part 1
By Fraser McGowan, University of Glasgow Club 21 student As part of a Club 21 placement I have been researching the history of student political societies at the University of Glasgow.Following on from researching the Glasgow University Distributist Club, I… Read More ›
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