Books and ephemera on the history and description of Glasgow.

The records of the Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association documenting the charity’s pursuit over thirty years of fairer compensation for victims of industrial injury, improved legislation, better protection for workers and an asbestos-free environment. Includes material on victims in Glasgow.

Records of the Cancer Prevention Society, a Glasgow-based charity and volunteer centre.

From the papers of Laurie Flynn, investigative journalist.

The papers of George Wyllie (1921-2012), Glasgow born artist and sculptor, working in regenerative, performance and public art. Includes sketches, travel diaries, notebooks, slides, photographs, reviews, press cuttings and scrapbooks relating to all of the artist’s projects and exhibitions.

Papers of Colin and Gerri Kirkwood relating to community activism, writers' workshops and adult educational work in Glasgow and elsewhere.

Fictional works in which the city of Glasgow is an integral element or theme.

Formed in 1825 in Glasgow as a society for the improvement of the fine arts.

Formed in 1817 by the letter-press printers of Glasgow to represent the master printers and other workers in the industry. One of the earliest trade unions in Britain.

The Glasgow Stock Exchange was founded in 1844 and merged with other exchanges in Scotland in 1964 to become the Scottish Stock Exchange.

Interviews with more than 300 Glaswegians, providing a unique insight into schooldays, working lives, the Second World War, politics and religion.

Oral history project exploring the lives of those who worked in and around the Glasgow area.

Oral history interviews describing life in working-class Glasgow from 1920s to 1970s in the Gorbals and Tradeston districts.

Oral history project interviewing those who had earned their living working at Glasgow’s docks.

Interviews with former employees of the Singer sewing machine plant in Clydebank, discussing working conditions and the strike at the plant in 1911.

Interviews with residents of the Govanhill district of Glasgow

Interviews with witnesses of working life in the Clydeside heavy industries.

Interviews with victims of asbestos-related disease and their families, as well as a consultant surgeon at Inverclyde Royal Infirmary.

George Wyllie is one of Scotland’s most popular artists. Born in Glasgow in 1921, he first became a sailor and then a customs officer, but rapidly acquired a national and international reputation as an artist and sculptor. His work, which he called Scul?ture, was famous for its question mark motifs. His best known works are ‘The Straw Locomotive,’ ‘The Paper Boat,’ ‘A Day Down a Goldmine’, ‘Equilibrium of Spires’ and ‘The Cosmic Voyage.’

Read about the project to post one item from Strathclyde University Archives and Special Collections each week throughout 2014 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the granting of the royal charter of the University of Strathclyde.

The Glasgow Athenæum was established in 1847 and was originally housed on Ingram Street with the purpose of providing commercial, literary and scientific training for young men and women.

Since its foundation in 1995 the Scottish Oral History Centre (SOHC) has initiated a wealth of oral history projects, many of them with occupational health themes.

The large ornamental gates and transoms (semi-circular arches) of wrought iron trelliswork of the Royal College building were removed in the 1960s. They were fully restored for the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988 where they welcomed visitors arriving across Bells Bridge. Following the event they were returned to their rightful place where they can still be seen today at the main entrance to the Royal College building on George Street.

This website offers a list and contextualised information on approximately 190 literary societies that were running in Glasgow during the long nineteenth century (here defined as 1800 to 1914).

Website celebrating the work of George Wyllie, scul?tor, musician, dramatist, and poet.

Records of Glasgow City Council and its predecessors plus many private collections

Records of the University of Glasgow plus internationally important collection of business records.

Archives, rare books and museum objects relating to medicine, surgery and dentistry, with a strong focus on Glasgow and the West of Scotland.

Records of the Conservatoire and its predecessors plus historic musical instruments, music manuscripts and papers of performers.

Records of Glasgow School of Art plus artworks, architectural drawings, textile pieces, plaster casts, photographs and furniture.

Records of the University and its predecessors plus collections relating to Scottish Labour and Trades Union Movement, Scottish social work, social policy and child welfare, and Scottish social enterprise.