Archives & Special Collections

Digitised resources for taught courses

A range of newly-created videos on topics including the printing press, hand-made paper, and book format have been created and are available as part of our Archives & special collections teaching videos collection on EdShare.

Additionally the below resources have been brought together from our collections to support specific University of Glasgow courses in the College of Arts and College of Social Sciences.

In addition to these course-specific resources, you can also find details of our digitised collections which are available online. 

Please note that the majority of these resources are on archived pages which do not meet current accessibility guidelines. 

 

College of Arts

School of Critical Studies

English Language

• Manuscripts in Special Collections
• Chaucer's Roman of the Rose manuscript and Thynne's 1532 collected edition of Chaucer's works

English Literature

• M.Phil in Romanticism and the Forms of Modernity
• Late Medieval English Literature
• Victorian Resources in Special Collections
• Introduction to primary resources in Slavonic Studies

School of Culture and Creative Arts

History of Art

• Decorative Arts and Design History
• The Gothic Revival and Design (History of Art MLitt programmes)
• Graphic Design & visual culture in Europe 1890-1945: private press books
• The Domestic Landscape 1860-1960
• Design, Politics and Commerce: International Exhibitions 1851-1951
• Victorian Resources in Special Collections

Music

• The Music of Scotland

Theatre, Film & Television Studies

• 20th-century Scottish Theatre

School of Humanities

Archaeology

• Report & Supplementary Report on South Side Park (Glasgow: 1856 & 57)

Celtic and Gaelic

• Catalogue of Gaelic Manuscripts in Glasgow University by Anja Gunderloch [PDF]

Classics

• Classical Fragments: Greek Papyrus fragments from Oxyrhyncus

History

• Adam Smith research resources [PDF]
• Honours History Dissertation Sources: [PDF]
• Women and Feminist Movements in Europe, 1789-1945: primary source material for women's suffrage
• Scottish criminal records in Special Collections
• Digitised text: George Wyndham: The development of the state
• Victorian Resources in Special Collections
• Confessions of Mary Toft (manuscript)

School of Historical Studies: Scottish Centre for War Studies

• How to find primary resources relating to World War I in Special Collections

School of Modern Languages and Cultures

French

• Bande Dessinée
• French Emblem Books (see also the French emblems at Glasgow website for 27 emblem books digitised in their entirety)
• Stagecraft & Witchcraft

Slavonic Studies

• Digitised CollectionsCollege of Social Sciences

College of Social Sciences

School of Law

• Transcription of The Practiques of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington (MS Gen 1333)

School of Social and Political Sciences

Economic & Social History

• Glasgow broadside ballads: cheap print and popular song culture in 19th-century Scotland
• The History of crime and punishment in Britain, 1790-1870
• Scottish tourism and leisure in the nineteenth century
• Honours option course: Poverty and Progress: Britain 1885-1914
• Victorian Resources in Special Collections

Centre for the History of Medicine

• Dr. William Cullen: A Letter to Lord Cathcart, President of the Board of Police in Scotland, Concerning the Recovery of Persons Drowned and Seemingly Dead
• Dr. William Hunter: On the uncertainty of the signs of murder in the case of bastard children