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Merry Christmas from all at The Alasdair Gray Archive!

Wishing you and yours a happy and restful festive break. Thank you for all of your support in 2025 and we are thoroughly looking forward to sharing our 2026 programme with you in the new year.

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December 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🎄 Last orders! 🎄 Today is the final day we can process shop orders for the best chance of Christmas delivery. ⏰ We can’t guarantee dates and seasonal delays may occur, but ordering today gives you the best shot. Thank you & happy festive shopping! 🎁
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December 16, 2025 at 6:17 AM
On Tuesday, we welcomed 2nd-year Printmaking & Painting students from GSA, led by Cole Collins. ✨ We explored our collection, focusing on the ledger and research, sparking discussion on their own practice. 🏡💛 #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive #gsafacs
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
We were delighted to welcome the wonderful Whitehill Former Pupils’ Club! 💛 It means so much to connect with former and new pupils of Gray’s Secondary — here’s to making this an annual get-together! ✨ #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Thrilled to have the brilliant @josielong.bsky.social at the archive today! Exciting collaborations ahead 👀 She’s a trailblazing, multi-award-winning comedian, writer & filmmaker—thanks for visiting, Josie! 💫 #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
No. 52 – 2014: The Alasdair Gray Season, curated by @sorchadallas.bsky.social, brought Glasgow’s largest Gray retrospective to Kelvingrove. That year, Morag, his wife of 23 years, passed away. Of Me and Others was also published. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
📢 Exciting news! Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social, has been awarded a British Art Network Connect Bursary 🎉 This August she’ll visit the International Anthony Burgess Foundation to explore the creative ties between Alasdair Gray & Anthony Burgess. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
🎥 Watch The City in Conversation on our YouTube (link in bio)! Introduced by @sorchadallas.bsky.social, chaired by Dr Cole Collins, with Holly Rennie Brown, Bek Ziola & Elouise Blackburn. 🏙️ Last week to visit — Wed–Fri, 10–5pm. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Sold out Saturday tour! Thanks to all who visited!

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October 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Lovely morning with @canongate.co.uk featuring Sylvie ❤️ It’s always been excellent to collaborate with them on all things Gray related, thanks for visiting ❤️

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October 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Visiting ‘The City’ exhibition? Pick up a free zine by commissioned writer Elouise Blackburn, connecting the show to AGA’s collection and mapping queer, working-class Glasgow through objects, stories, and radical care.
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October 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM
We had a wonderful tour today, including members of the Friends of Whitehill Secondary School, who generously gifted us Alasdair’s commemorative quaich - presented to him when he received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018!

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September 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Great to have 4th year GSA Com Des students visit today with tutor Marc Baines, pictured here with our Curatorial Assistant Holly Rennie Brown. Thanks for coming by!
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September 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Day 2 of Doors Open Day ✅ Huge thanks to all who came!
Incredible feedback on the collection’s accessibility, curation, and kids' activities. A friendly, inspiring, and engaging experience all round!
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September 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Glasgow Doors Open Day 1 ✅ Thanks to everyone who stopped by—little artists, babies, old pals of Alasdair, new faces & even a mural discovery! Great day. Roll on Day 2! #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
September 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Next in our timeline: No. 39 – Mavis Belfrage (1996). Originally titled Agnes Belfrage, Gray changed it after input from writer Agnes Owens. His least fantastical work, it explores love and working-class life from the '50s–'90s. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
September 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A real treat to welcome the brilliant @kirstininnes.bsky.social to AGA today and to show her the @aowensarchive.bsky.social archive collection ❤️

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September 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Alasdair Gray, 1982 by Jim Cunningham

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September 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Thanks to our curatorial assistant Holly Rennie Brown for leading another successful tour of the collection yesterday, was especially special to welcome our friend Diego Gentini, joining us all the way from Buenos Aires!

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July 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
We had some small helpers at the archive today helping us test a new online and in person activity all about our real and imagined versions of Glasgow…sharing for Doors Open Day in September!

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July 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Wonderful tour group yesterday with visitors joining us from England, Ireland and Scotland. Posting July tour dates soon!

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June 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
A real treat to welcome graphic designer Maeve Redmond to the archive today who was researching Alasdair’s font & typesetting for our FIRST AGA PUBLICATION, dropping autumn 2025 👌💪🏽👌💪🏽

More news on this coming soon!

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June 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
24 hours of incredible visitors including Jo Gallagher, Lecturer in Teacher Education at Glasgow University and visitors from Australia, Scotland, England and Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art, USA!

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June 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Great to welcome Alan Dimmick, Sally Johnston and Andrew Cranston to the archive today.

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June 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Thanks to all who gave up a morning in the Scottish ☀️ to come visit us and @aowensarchive.bsky.social ❤️

Last tour in May on 30th at 11am, DM or email info@thealasdairgrayarchive.org to book 👌

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May 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM