Exhibitions
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Take Flight This exhibition celebrates the Archive Awareness 2009 theme, 'Take Flight!' during the month of November. Images from the William Beardmore & Co Ltd and the George Bennie Railplane collections are featured. |
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Hannah Frank The 'Hannah Frank: A Glasgow Artist - Drawing and Sculptures 100th Birthday Exhibition' was held in the University Chapel in 2008. Hannah was awarded a posthumous honorary degree from the University in June 2009. |
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Adam Smith in Glasgow Adam Smith (1723-1790) the moral philosopher and economist, was one of the most widely-read and influential thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment. Illustrates his time at the University of Glasgow. |
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Barkers of Kensington The House of Fraser announced the closure of its Barkers department store in Kensington in January 2006 after more than a century of retail history. The store and the people will forever be remembered in the House of Fraser Group Archive. |
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City of Glasgow Bank The bank is infamous as the scene of Glasgow's greatest financial disaster of the Victorian era. The directors reported that business was booming. Then newspapers reported that the directors had decided to close the bank. |
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Ernest Arthur Binstead Ernest Arthur Binstead was a keen amateur artist who produced pencil drawings and watercolour sketches of the activities that went on around him in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Images from two sketchbooks are exhibited here. |
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International Archives Day The 9th of June 2009 was designated as International Archives Day. Archives constitute the memory of all nations and societies. Please select a region of the world to view highlights of our collections. |
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Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) 40 years on Joint presentation from the National Archives of Scotland and the University of Glasgow, featuring photographs, many of which had not been seen for 40 years, on the building of the QE2. |
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The University of Glasgow and JapanĀ The University of Glasgow has had strong connections with Japan since the 19th century. This exhibition consists of a series of posters (in pdf format) that tell of past and present associations. |
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