Recently the graduate trainees at the University of Glasgow Archive Services, gave presentations at staff training sessions on current topical themes in the Archives sector. Archiving Social Media Roz went first with her presentation on ‘Archiving Social Media’. She… Read More ›
Guest blogpost by Casci Ritchie, a postgraduate student studying Dress and Textile Histories on placement in the University of Glasgow archive services. Casci has been working on digitising department stores catalogues from the House of Fraser archives and making the content more accessible online… Read More ›
Guest blogpost by Casci Ritchie, a postgraduate student studying Dress and Textile Histories on placement in the University of Glasgow archive services. Casci has been working on digitising department stores catalogues from the House of Fraser archives and making the content more… Read More ›
Guest blogpost by Casci Ritchie, a postgraduate student studying Dress and Textile Histories on placement in the University of Glasgow archive services. Casci has been working on digitising department stores catalogues from the House of Fraser archives and making the… Read More ›
The 26th of January marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales. Today, Australians all over the world will be celebrating what’s great about Australia and being Australian…. Read More ›
Find part 1 here . Following on from the previous post, here are is a quick round up of the next three Nobel prize winners that we are celebrating today: Alexander Todd Alexander Todd was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize… Read More ›
Through using our helpful ‘On This Day’ tool, we discovered that 10th December marks the anniversary of six Nobel prize-winners who have strong links to the University. To celebrate, here is a brief summary of the first three Nobel laureates: William… Read More ›
Today we were visited by our third and final Information Management & Preservation class. For the past few weeks Archive Services has opened up its searchroom and hosted the future information professionals, acting as an example of how an archive service runs. The… Read More ›
This is the first of three blog posts by Meghan Rathbun, who did a placement with Archive Services working with the early records of the University of Glasgow while an MSc Museum Studies student in 2014/15. (She previously completed an… Read More ›
Our collection of material relating to Professor Archibald Allan Bowman (DC77) contains records of his academic career, family papers, personal papers – including those dating from his service in the First World War – and photographs. We recently acquired a… Read More ›
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