Scottish Business Archive
May 2009
Stoddard-Templeton Collection
Thanks to generous awards from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, National Fund for Acquisitions, Friends of the National Library, and Friends of Glasgow Museums, Archive Services was, in conjunction with the Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow Museums, able to purchase the Stoddard-Templeton Collection.
House of Fraser Archives Project
We are coming to the end of our AHRC funded House of Fraser Archives project. This project has seen the use of new techniques for archival arrangement and description to recatalogue the House of Fraser Archive. The new online catalogue is currently undergoing user-testing and will be launched later in the year. House of Fraser celebrate their 160th anniversary in October, so we are working with them to mark the occasion. Victoria Peters, who has worked with the department for a number of years on this and other archival description projects, is now moving on. We wish her every success in her new post as University Archivist at the University of Strathclyde.
April 2009
William Denny & Brothers Ltd archives on show
Photographs of ships built at the famous Denny yard and William Denny’s own notebook are now on show as part of an exhibition at the Scottish Maritime Museum’s Denny Tank Museum. Archive Services holds the records of the innovative shipbuilders who were closely linked to Dumbarton from the establishment of the firm in 1844.
Archive Services visit to Irn-Bru
Archive Services’ staff enjoyed an afternoon at A G Barr plc's new headquarters, production and distribution unit at Cumbernauld.
SBA Open Day
The Scottish Brewing Archive and Scottish Brewing Archive Association recently hosted a successful open day at Archive Services reflecting on recent changes in the Scottish brewing industry.
December 2008
James Finlay & Co Ltd archive
The James Finlay & Co archive provides a significant amount of valuable information on its employees through the Registers of Managers and Assistants (GUAS Ref: UGD 91/1/6/3/1). These registers, which date from the early 1900s into the final quarter of the twentieth century, record the careers of the many managers and assistants managers who travelled from the UK to work in Finlay’s estates in India, Sri Lanka and Kenya. The lives and employment of these managers and assistants are recorded in detail as the company ensured it made the most of its talented employees.
November 2008
Using business archives for family history
This month Clare Paterson, the Assistant Archivist (Scottish Business Archive) had an enjoyable visit to Troon, giving a presentation to the members of the Troon @ Ayrshire Family History Society. The talk centred on using business archives to help build up a family history.
Ernest Arthur Binstead
At the beginning of summer we were very pleased to receive (Ernest) Arthur Binstead’s sketchbook. This sketchbook is principally made up of pencil drawings and watercolours made during Mr Binstead’s journey on the S.S. Garmoyle from Glasgow to the Isle of Dogs in April 1901. More recently a second sketchbook, dated 1908, has been sent to us by Miss Lee for inclusion in the collections.
