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 ›
University of Glasgow Archive Services
Hollywood comes to Aberdeen: The influence of Hollywood glamour in the John Falconer catalogues.
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 ›
Queen Mary’s gift, 1563 – by Meghan Rathbun
This is the last 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 ›
Mary, Marie: correcting attribution – by Meghan Rathbun
This is the second 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 ›
Reformation-era travels of early university records – by Meghan Rathbun
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 ›
Word Food Day and Nobel Prize-winning nutritionist John Boyd Orr
The 16th of October marks ‘World Food Day’, a worldwide celebration to raise awareness of food security, malnutrition and poverty. Since it was founded in 1945, countries have used the day to come together and strengthen international and national solidarity… 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 ›
Graduation 2015/1915: Veterinary Medicine
Today we celebrate graduations from the University of Glasgow School of Veterinary Medicine. We unfortunately do not have the records of the Veterinary graduates from 1915, however we do have a collection for the Veterinary College, so can take… Read More ›
Graduation 2015/1915: Engineering
Today we are celebrating graduations from the School of Engineering by discussing some University of Glasgow engineers from 100 years ago. The Engineering course at Glasgow has historically attracted international students from all around the globe, and the class… Read More ›
Graduation 2015/1915: Law and Business
Today the University celebrates graduations from the Schools of Law and Business. Here are some of our lawyers and business-people from one hundred years ago! James Ewart Kennedy Cook, born in Kilmarnock in April 1889, graduated with a Bachelor of… Read More ›