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Keith Brown papers
GB 249 BRO · Collection · 1970 - 2000

The collection comprises primarily research reports written by Keith Brown, documenting his career at W. Greenwell & Co. during the 1970s and 1980s then at Morgan Stanley from 1988 until 1999.

The collection includes:

  • W. Greenwell & Co (later Greenwell Montagu and Greenwell Montagu Research) research reports and analysis, 1970-1987.
  • Morgan Stanley research reports and analysis, 1988-1999.
  • Speeches and presentations made by Brown throughout the world to conferences, bank management and investors on the UK, European and international banking industry.
  • Written notes from meetings with management. Unpublished.
Brown, Keith Clark, b. 1943, stockbroker and investment banker
GB 249 T-MIN/40 · Collection · c. 1990 - 2020

Collection of miscellaneous and mostly non-technical writings about John Logie Baird, television pioneer, written and/or compiled by his son, Malcolm Baird. Some of the pieces have been published. The material forms a supplement to Malcolm Baird's more concise technical memoirs entitled “From the White Suit to the Hard Hat”.

Comprises:

  1. Lectures about John Logie Baird
  2. Articles about John Logie Baird
  3. Reviews (book and film)
  4. Sketches of people in John Logie Baird’s circle eg relatives, friends, associates including:
    (a) John Logie Baird's older sister Annie (1883-1971) and his daughter Diana (1931-2016)
    (b) the executor of John Logie Baird's estate (1894-1964)
    (c) Donald Flamm (1899-1998), John Logie Baird's friend and associate in the USA, and an honorary graduate of the University of Strathclyde
    (d) Antony Kamm (1931-2011) with whom Malcolm Baird wrote a biography of John Logie Baird
    (e) John Logie Baird's first love "Alice" (1890-1971)
    (f) A set of short character sketches developed by Malcolm Baird for a proposed film project
Baird, Malcolm, b. 1935, chemical engineer
Mary McDonald papers
GB 249 JCE/22/2/26 · Collection · 1917 - 1921
  • Junior Student's Certificate, Vale of Leven Academy, 31 July 1917
  • Certificate of Merit in Singing, Glasgow Provincial Training College, session 1917-1919
  • Training Record, Glasgow Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers, 26 June 1919
  • Classes for the further training of teachers: Domestic Science (First Course) Certificate, Glasgow Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers, session 1927-1928
  • Classes for the further training of teachers: Domestic Science (Second Course) Certificate, Glasgow Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers, session 1928-1929
  • Portrait photograph of Mary McDonald by Studio Cecil, Glasgow, 1918. Black and white; 45 x 78 mm on 61 x 100 mm mount
  • Group photograph of female Chapter III students (Section F), taken outside the Stow Building, June 1919. Includes Mary McDonald (back row, 4th from left) and her lifelong friends Effie Brown (back row, 5th from left) and Jessie Bennett (back row, 6th from left). Black and white; 262 x 177 mm on 354 x 267 mm mount
  • Studio photograph of Mary McDonald (seated on left) and five female friends, including Effie Brown (standing on right) and Jessie Bennett (seated on right). By Clarke Barry, Glasgow, 8 February 1919. Black and white; 135 x 86 mm
  • Photograph of student group (Mary McDonald seated front row, second from left), one girl holding a tennis racquet. Annotated on reverse: 'Taken [in] Jordanhill Gardens, 21st May [19]19.' Black and white; 86 x 52 mm
  • Photograph of Mary McDonald (standing, centre) and three friends, one holding a tennis racquet. Annotated on reverse: 'Stow College [,] June 1919'. Black and white; 60 x 60 mm
  • Photograph of Mary McDonald (second-back row, second from left) and nine friends, one holding a tennis racquet. Annotated on reverse: 'Tennis [,] Jordanhill [,] 1919'. Black and white; 64 x 64 mm
  • Photograph of student group (Mary McDonald pictured back row, third from left), annotated on reverse: 'Loch Shore [,] F2 Picnic [,] 15th June [19]18'. Black and white; 74 x 53 mm
  • Photograph of student group, annotated on reverse: 'Loch Shore [,] F(2) Picnic [,] 15th June [19]18'. Black and white; 68 x 47 mm
  • Photograph of students and staff, annotated on reverse: 'Milngavie [,] 24.2.19 [,] Botany Excursion'. Black and white; 88 x 60 mm
  • Photograph of five female students, annotated on reverse: 'Milngavie [,] 24.2.19 [,] Botany Excursion'. Black and white; 60 x 88 mm
  • Photograph of Mary McDonald (on right) with a female colleague, standing outside a building. Annotated on reverse: 'College St. School [,] 1921'. Black and white; 59 x 84 mm
  • Photograph of Mary McDonald's sister-in-law, Jeanie Middleton Hamill, wearing the College blazer, c.1921. Jeanie attended the Glasgow Provincial Training College from 1921-1923 and married Mary's brother, Peter, in 1936. Black and white; 59 x 85 mm
  • Autograph album, received by Mary McDonald on her 20th birthday and subsequently filled with sketches and verses by fellow students, friends and family members. Includes a list of students in Section F, 1917-1919; sketches on the theme of the First World War, and a sketch of the French and British flags contributed by Mary's brother, Peter McDonald
Duthie, Mary Ann McAllister, 1898-1997, teacher
Duncan Craig papers
GB 249 OM/482 · Collection · 1946 - 1947

Royal Technical College Diploma in Engineering Science as applied to Electrical Engineering, 1946; Royal Technical College Certificate of Associateship in Electrical Engineering, 1947; thesis presented for the Associateship of the Royal Technical College (ARTC), 1947.

Craig, Duncan Robertson, 1927-1998, electrical engineer
GB 249 OEDA · Collection · 1969-2009
  • early correspondence and papers relating to Nancy Tait’s fact-finding mission regarding asbestos
  • minutes of meetings of the SPAID/OEDA Trustees, annual reports, strategic plans
  • registers and other finding aids for the extensive OEDA case file series (OEDA CF); see link below
  • information resources on employers and insurers and other materials for supporting compensation claims
  • some case correspondence, medical appeals correspondence, correspondence with the medical appeal administration, and with the social security commissioner
  • documentation of the different types of information services provided by SPAID / OEDA, among them series relating to occupational and environmental health enquiries; SPAID / OEDA publications and display boards; responses to requests for information from solicitors; and responses to requests for information from the media
  • records relating to SPAID/OEDA's research into asbestos related diseases, mortality statistics, latency periods; also testimony before commissions, consultancy reports
  • SPAID/OEDA's extensive advocacy work over four decades
  • interactions with victims support groups, unions, fellow activists, occupational health experts, historians, solicitors and legal scholars
  • conferences and meetings to which Nancy Tait and her organisation contributed or which she attended
  • information files compiled on specific topics
  • series of correspondence and telephone memoranda
  • SPAID/OEDA accounts; also fundraising activities including grant applications
  • some documentation of the creation and running of the Electron Microscope Research Unit
  • instructions and manuals relating to office procedures and information management in the organisation
  • reference library (OEDA/K) including the organisation's collection of scientific papers, deposits and judgements, statutory instruments, DSS claims forms 1969-2007, clusters of press coverage, etc

Further,

  • OEDA collection of printed material; see link below
  • ten series of case files (OEDA CF, see link below)
  • OEDA's copies of the Chase Manhattan Turner & Newall papers (OEDA CM, see link below)
  • several standalone collections accepted to the OEDA archive during the 1990s, including the research papers of M J Sanders, records of Cancer Prevention Society, Glasgow, and the papers documenting refrigeration management worker W H Knight's compensation claim; see links below
Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association
GB 249 OEDA CM · Collection · c. 1920 - 1998

Copies of content from the Turner & Newall (T&N) corporate archive, Manchester, which were given to the Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association by Chase Manhattan Bank.

The collection comprises correspondence about the papers and lawyer Michael O'Connor's mission to distribute them, followed by Turner & Newall corporate papers relating to:

  • minutes of meetings
  • industry regulation
  • compensation (including all manner of case information)
  • health and safety measures
  • epidemiological research on asbestos
  • documentaries on the asbestos industry
  • company histories

The collection concludes with a single dossier on legal actions relating to the former site of Turner Asbestos Cement Co Ltd (later TAC Construction Materials Ltd) at Dalmuir.

Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association
GB 249 OF/46 · Collection · 1964 - 2012

Calendars of musical events, 1980-2011; concert programmes and leaflets, 1964-2011; membership lists, 1987-2000; photographs c. 1980s-2007; recordings of concerts, 1987-2008; papers relating to pipe organ in Barony Hall, 2001-2008.

University of Strathclyde | Director of Music
GB 249 T-GTS · Collection · 1817 - 1966

Minutes; contribution books; quarterly reports; rules and standing orders; financial records; membership records; branch and section records; chapel records; correspondence and agreements.

Glasgow Typographical Society
Hugh Brown papers
GB 249 JCE/14/15/7 · Collection · 1954-c. 1974

Photograph of a bronze relief panel of Hugh Brown executed by Vincent Butler; photograph of Brown alongside Principal Lecturer George Orr and an overseas student from Zimbabwe; Brown's personal register of Scottish School of Physical Education students' marks for session 1954-1955, including a list of lectures he delivered to the third year students and a results table for the School's First and Second Eleven football games.

Brown, Hugh Craig, b. 1911, Director of the Scottish School of Physical Education
GB 249 T-ALC · Collection · 1954 - 1986

Minutes and papers of Council meetings, including Chairman’s Committee and National Executive, 1957-1968, 1970-1984; Conditions of Service Committee correspondence and papers, 1959-1986; Regulations Committee minutes and papers, 1960-1966, 1971, 1975; Education Committee correspondence, reports and policy documents, 1964-1983; membership lists and lists of branch officials; general correspondence, 1958-1968, 1980-1983; correspondence and programmes for annual conferences, 1962-1974; newsletters and bulletins, 1961-1965, 1971-1975, 1979-1980, 1984-1985; ballot papers on the future of ALCES, 1974; liaison with trade unions and other organisations; branch meeting minutes.

Association of Lecturers in Colleges of Education in Scotland
GB 249 OE/16 · Collection · 1903 - 1965

Minutes and papers of the Joint Committee 1903-1964; financial records 1954-1963; student records 1905, 1908-1964; correspondence 1944-1964; calendars and prospectuses 1948/1949-1963/1964; press cuttings 1947-1965.

Glasgow School of Architecture
W H Knight papers
GB 249 KNIG · Collection · 1962-1994

Correspondence and papers relating to W H Knight’s claims arising from working conditions at Land Rover UK Ltd 1962-1981. Includes a blueprint and detailed colour photographs (with explanatory inscriptions) of test house 'R' at Land Rover UK Ltd, Meteor Works, Solihull (also drawings of apparatus), as well as colour photographs of typical protective equipment. Also extensive verbal descriptions of working conditions, fellow workers' statements in support, documentation of background research into health effects of fluorocarbons, legal correspondence (including occupational health and safety report, 1989), correspondence with Nancy Tait, and extensive press coverage on occupational and environmental health scares c.1980-1994. Further, a little personal correspondence and correspondence re Knight's service during World War II.

The material was in considerable disarray, with most of it loose and in no particular order, and inscribed folders that were empty. Where available, present arrangement of the archive is based on an extrapolation of how extant (empty) containers were labelled.

  • correspondence with SPAID, in particular Nancy Tait, 1983-1994
  • legal correspondence: with Robin Thompson & Partners, solicitors, Birmingham, 1982-1983; with Field Fisher Waterhouse, 1983-1989; with Nick Wikeley, 1985-1988
  • correspondence re social security 1981-1988
  • correspondence with Land Rover Ltd, 1983, and papers re work and working conditions (including 3 diaries 1965-1969), 1965-c.1981
  • visualisations of refrigeration arrangements at Land Rover Ltd
  • correspondence with unions, 1982-1986; with the media, 1982-1987; with MPs, 1983-1988
  • medical correspondence, 1981-1988, including an exchange with occupational health experts at Aston University 1981-1982
  • research into the health impact of fluorocarbons
  • press cuttings, c.1983-1991
    Also correspondence re service during World War II, 1982-1984, and some personal letters, 1985-1987.

Books found with the material have been transferred to the OEDA Library and can be identified through the library catalogue.

Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association
GB 249 CPSG · Collection · 1973 - 1988

Papers documenting the research and activism of G E Rushworth and the Cancer Prevention Society (CPS). Main series are:

  • research and campaigning for change
  • activism re specific sites and buildings
  • publications by the Cancer Prevention Society
  • press archive of the Cancer Prevention Society

The archive relates predominantly to the health threats posed by asbestos and to measures taken by the CPS to contain these threats. The third series, publications by the CPS, poses an exception to this, addressing all sorts of common cancers.

Books and booklets found with the material have been transferred to the OEDA Library and can be identified through the library catalogue.

Rushworth, George Edward, b. 1930, industrial health and safety consultant
GB 249 OF/103/1 · File · 1960 - 1969

Numbers of students by academic session and course in the School of Business and Administration at the University of Strathclyde.

Also, names of students in session 1965-1966 taking University of Strathclyde degrees.

University of Strathclyde | School of Business and Administration