University Archive & Scottish Business Archive subject guides
University Archive & Scottish Business Archive subject guides
These guides list the main collections we hold, of records of businesses and organisations, relating to the following research topics:
- Aircraft construction industry (2 pages, 46kB, pdf)
- Architecture (4 pages, 173kB, pdf)
- Army & Navy Co-operative Society fireams records (3 pages, pdf)
- Banking (2 pages, 37kB, pdf)
- Barr & Stroud Ltd Binoculars (2 pages, 142kB, pdf)
- Barr & Stroud Ltd Rangefinders (2 pages, 32kB, pdf)
- Blockade running during the American Civil War (5 pages, 158kB, pdf)
- Brewing (27 pages, 421kB, pdf)
- Brewing Library (7 pages, 151kB, pdf)
- Business collections with items dated before 1800 (4 pages, 48kB, pdf)
- Chemical and pharmaceutical industry (3 pages, 38kB, pdf)
- Drinks Industry (30 pages, 444kB, pdf)
- Employers associations (4 pages, 164kB, pdf)
- Engineering (4 pages, 169kB, pdf)
- Food and agriculture (4 pages, 83kB, pdf)
- Health and safety at work (1 page, 32kB, pdf)
- History of death (2 pages, 38kB, pdf)
- Locomotives and Railways (3 pages, 79kB, pdf)
- Lloyds Registers of Shipping (2 pages, 48kB, pdf)
- Marketing (2 pages, 42kB, pdf)
- Mining (3 pages, 99kB, pdf)
- North British Locomotive (1 page, 32kB, pdf)
- Paisley businesses (9 pages, 148kB, pdf)
- Printing and publishing (1 page, 32kB, pdf)
- Scottish railways (4 pages, 56kB, pdf)
- Ship building, ship repair and allied industries (10 pages, 177kB, pdf)
- Ship passenger lists (3 pages, 50kB, pdf)
- Shipping companies (10 pages, 226kB, pdf)
- Shirlaw, Allan & Co (Auctioneers) (1 page, 64kB, pdf) and Shirlaw Allan collection index (39 pages, 849kB, pdf)
- Ships built on the River Clyde
- Algerine Class Minesweepers (1 page, 41kB, pdf)
- HMAS Australia (2 pages, 96kB, pdf)
- HMS Antrim (2 pages, 39kB, pdf)
- HMS Argyll (1 page, 28kB, pdf)
- HMS Ariadne (1 page, 29kB, pdf)
- HMS Hood (1 page, 28kB, pdf)
- HMS Leviathan (2 pages, 32kB, pdf)
- Kungsholm (2 pages, 34kB, pdf)
- QSS Empress of Britain (4 pages, 41kB, pdf)
- RMS Aquitania (3 pages, 44kB, pdf)
- RMS Lusitania (4 pages, 164kB, pdf)
- RMS Queen Elizabeth (4 pages, 46kB, pdf)
- RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) (4 pages, 43kB, pdf)
- RMS Queen Mary (8 pages, 51kB, pdf)
- Solicitors (1 page, 33kB, pdf)
- Stoddard-Templeton collection (4 pages, 187kB, pdf)
- Sugar industry (1 page, 31kB, pdf)
- Temperance (4 pages, 341kB, pdf)
- Textile industry (24 pages, 258kB, pdf)
- University of Glasgow
- Alumni societies (2 pages, 24kB, pdf)
- James McCune Smith and the University
- John Logie Baird and the University (1 page, 29kB, pdf)
- Predecessor and affiliated institutions
- Rectorial Addresses
- Benjamin Disraeli 19th November 1873 (24 pages, 4.1MB, pdf)
- Earl of Birkenhead Idealism in International Politics, 3rd November 1923 (12 pages, 3.3MB, pdf)
- Jimmy Reid Alienation, 28th April 1972 (13 pages, 5MB, pdf)
- Sir Archibald Sinclair Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, 7th February 1940 (23 pages, 3.4MB, pdf)
- Robert Burns and the University (2 pages, 38kB, pdf)
- Select bibliography for the history of the University of Glasgow (3 pages, 94kB, pdf)
- Student societies (5 pages, 183kB, pdf)
- Thomson, William (Lord Kelvin)
- Lord Kelvin and the University (3 pages, 42kB, pdf)
- University of Glasgow (11 pages, 84kB, pdf)
- Who, Where and When: The History and Constitution of the University of Glasgow (224 pages, 741kB, pdf)
- War studies (8 pages, 186kb, pdf)
- Waterloo, Battle of (2 pages, 243kb, pdf)
- Whisky industry (3 pages, 91kB, pdf)
- Womens history (4 pages, 174kB, pdf)
- Wylie & Lochhead funeral order books (2 pages, 48kB, pdf)
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Image entitled 'A Glasgow Student, about the year 1844', from the publication 'Memories of the Old College of Glasgow' by David Murray, 1927.