The end of term & the winter break is right around the corner!

Merry Christmas and Season's Greetings to our community in Glasgow and all over the world. ❤️

Wishing everyone a merry festive break! ⛄

Here's a design for a pantomime stage backdrop by Mary MacEwen for a production of Cinderella (c. 1950s-60s) 🐁🕛🥿 [STA 2Fa 1/45]

We close today for the holidays, and will be back open on Monday 5th January. See you in the new year!

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Applications for Library Visiting Research Fellowships at @glasgow.ac.uk are open!

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Closing date: 5/01/2026
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We bring EYA Focus Week 2025 to a close with #EYAYourArchive! We were only able to choose a handful of our favourite items for this year's Focus Week, so we're using this opportunity to share a few more.

Refs: GUA 014058; Sp Coll T.C.L. f5; T-87-3; UGD 255/1/40

🎉#EYAAnniversaries🎉Next month we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first public demonstration of the television, by UofG alumnus John Logie Baird. Related items in our collection include a Phonovision disc containing a unique copy of the earliest surviving television recording! [MS Gen 1774/3]

For #EYAInclusion, we’ve been looking at the records of Queen Margaret College, a higher education institution for women that joined with the University of Glasgow in 1892. The records are a fascinating resource for anyone interested in the history of women’s education in Scotland.
DC 233/2/22/2/63

We’re behind the scenes for #EYADigital with our FRED machine, which analyses and processes digital files. Our collections increasingly involve digital materials; we’ve recently used the FRED and FTK to process material from the 2000s deposited from the University’s student television station, GUST.

Today's Explore Your Archive theme is #EYAPets, and we've picked some more items from the Scottish Theatre Archive. Amongst this collection of autographed theatrical postcards are a number featuring actor John Martin Harvey posing with his dogs 🐕

Refs: STA Gen 15/1/14, 13 & 12

Whilst celebrating the collections, it's important to recognise histories that are underrepresented in archives. #EYASilence is an opportunity to highlight work taking place to challenge these silences, such as Ashanti Harris's project which consulted the Scottish Theatre Archive.

STA 2Fa 2/42

For #EYAMedieval, we've chosen the 12th-century Hunterian Psalter, one of the most magnificent manuscripts from William Hunter’s library. Here's a miniature depicting the Ascension (fo. 4r), an intricate initial B (fol 22r), and a singing goat with an ass playing the harp (fol 88r). [MS Hunter 229]

The House of Fraser Archive offers a glimpse into the past of the 200 stores that have been acquired by the company since its foundation as a Glasgow drapery in 1849. For #EYABeauty we’re taking a look at some cosmetics counters through the decades💄
FRAS 813/3
FRAS 1226/1
FRAS 771/5

We kick off this year's #ExploreYourArchive Week with the theme #EYAConservation. A Chinese star chart bound within a manuscript has recently been conserved by our Book Conservator with Japanese paper & jin shofu paste. Can you see the difference before and after conservation? 🌟 [Ref: MS Hunter 10]

We are thrilled to now share our work and collections on Bluesky! As an introduction, our Graduate Trainees are participating in this year's #ExploreYourArchive Focus Week. Look out for posts over the next week showcasing the breadth of the University of Glasgow’s collections.

📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!

We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.

Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

📆Closing date: 5 January 2026

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