Archive skills guide

These pages are to help University of Glasgow students acquire the skills to find and use archives in any repository, not just at the University of Glasgow.

• Locating archives for your research

• Planning your visit to use archives

• What to expect when you get there

• Palaeography

• Latin skills

• Legal issues when consulting and using archives

• Historical currency, weights, measures and dates

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Further questions?

If you wish to know anything else about finding and using archives, contact the Duty Archivist.