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Minutes and papers of the executive committee; AGM minutes and papers; financial records; membership lists; conference programmes, abstracts, papers; newsletters; correspondence with British Educational Research Association, Scottish Education Department Research and Intelligence Unit and others.

Election literature including campaign leaflets, manifestos and publications produced by political parties for Scottish constituencies. Primarily covering all elections since the first Scottish Parliament election in 1999, there is also a selection of earlier donated material present.

Collection of books on labour and agricultural history.

Collection of books originally part of the reference library at the Scottish Hotel School. The collection is made up of two components:

• The Scottish Hotel School antiquarian collection comprising over 200 books on cookery dating mostly from 1776 to the 1940s. It includes 18th century Scottish cookery books, works by Mrs Beeton and other popular writers and books by 19th century French chefs such as Alexis Soyer.

• The Scottish Hotel School cookery collection comprising over 700 books on cookery and wine, dating from 1885 to 2000 but primarily 20th century.

• Management committee papers
• Annual reports
• Financial records
• Estates and buildings records
• Certificates of accreditation of courses
• Prospectuses
• Course leaflets
• Handbooks for international students
• Examination papers
• Awards ceremony programmes
• Student records
• Prize and scholarship records
• Uniforms
• Student memorabilia
• Group photographs
• Internationale Kochkunst Grosser Preis medal
• Function menus
• Visitors' books
• News cuttings books
• Year books and newsletters
• Teaching aids
• Published articles about the Scottish Hotel School
• Corporate merchandise
• Board game entitled 'Who wants to be a hotelier'
• Certificate of corporate membership of Hospitality Action
• Scottish Hotel School Library records

Material produced in connection with the Scottish Independence Referendum on 18th September 2014. The question on the ballot paper was 'Should Scotland be an independent country?'. The collection comprises communications produced by the Yes and No campaigns and various other interest groups.

Leaflet on the company, no date; brochure summarising activity of company, 1986-1987.

Collection of books, journals, maps and yearbooks. Also SMC library register (1 volume) recording books borrowed from the collection from 1935-2007.

It includes historical and current publications by the Scottish Mountaineering Club and Scottish Mountaineering Trust along with a vast library of books on: technical and philosophical aspects of mountaineering, climbing, skiing, hill walking and other outdoor pursuits; fiction and literature; biographies and autobiographies; travel and exploration from all over the world which includes an extensive collection of Scottish texts; history of mountaineering; antiquarian collection of 18th century Scottish travel and tour books.

Includes minutes, correspondence, reports, circulars, newsletters, flyers.

The Scottish Oral History Centre Archive is an extensive collection of oral history recordings focussing on the history of work, occupational health and the social impact of de-industrialisation. Most of the recordings originate from projects carried out by Scottish Oral History Centre staff and students but there are also large collections of interviews originating from other organisations, for example Glasgow Museums and the Scottish Working People’s History Trust.

Privately printed volume containing an illustrated collection of student reminiscences and life stories, produced for the 50th anniversary reunion of those who qualified from the Scottish School of Physical Education, Jordanhill College of Education in 1968. The volume contains contributions from 47 former students, plus a paper on 'Power, Control and Status in Physical Education' by Dr Ian Thomson. Compiled by Drew Michie between September 2017 and May 2018.

Handbooks for students taking Scottish Studies as a principal subject in the BA offered by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Unversity of Strathclyde. Sets out course objectives, skills used, methods of teaching and assessment, staff profiles, entrance requirements, the degree programme and descriptions of classes.

Needlework samples; two sets of Ladybird Picture-Sentence Matching Cards; programme for College production of 'As you like it', June 1959; Child Education Supplement, May 1963; classroom poster; '... And so to Embroider' bulletin; knitting equipment; Jordanhill College silk scarf with Glasgow Provincial Committee crest; books, 1915-1972.

Signed and indexed minutes of the Sheet Metal Work Class Committee of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College and (from 1912) the Royal Technical College, Glasgow concerning the management of the work of the metalwork classes.

Small collection of printed and manuscript sheet music by various composers. Probably mid 18th to early 19th century in origin.