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Cape Industries Ltd was registered in December 1893 as Cape Asbestos Company Ltd. It was incorporated in 1957. Its name changed to 'Cape Industries Limited' in 1974.
Originally a company that specialised in mining asbestos, Cape developed asbestos-free products in the 1970s and developed a scaffolding division.

An independent, international academy founded in 1982 with the mission to advance knowledge of occupational and environmental health, prevent disease and save lives.

Eglinton Iron Company was incorporated c.1845 by William Baird and Co to manage and operate their new iron works at Eglinton, and later the extensive mineral leases at ironworks at Blair, Muirkirk, Lugar, and Portland.

Frank Burnet (1846-1923) studied architecture at the Glasgow School of Art and worked for John Carrick, the City Master of Works in Glasgow, before setting up his own practice in 1878. In August 1889, Burnet took his assistant, William James Boston (1861-1937), into partnership. Following the deaths of Frank Burnet in 1923 and William James Boston in 1937, the business was continued by Burnet's son, Frank Russell Burnet (1891-1980), who trained at the Glasgow School of Architecture and served his apprenticeship in his father's firm. He subsequently took James Bell (1910-1967) into partnership, but the name of the business remained as Frank Burnet & Boston until 1961, when it changed to Frank Burnet, Bell & Partners. The practice was based at 80 Hope Street in Glasgow.

George Mackie, dispensing chemist is first mentioned in the Glasgow Post Office Directory for 1895-1896, with premises at 73 Renfield Street, Glasgow. Mackie's residential address was nearby at 108 Renfield Street. His entry in the Directory for 1900-1901 lists two business premises in Glasgow: 73 Renfield Street and 52 Jane Street, Blythswood Square. By 1902-1903, the second premises had moved to 741 Pollokshaws Road and Mackie was residing at 9 Cromwell Square. In subsequent editions of the Directory, only the original premises at 73 Renfield Street is listed. Mackie continued to live at 9 Cromwell Square until around 1909, when he moved to Earlston, Kirkintilloch. In 1935, Mackie relocated to Upper Largo in Fife, where he lived at 'Lynwood' on Main Street. He took over a chemist's shop on the same street and this was run by his daughter, Miss B.H. Mackie. He also retained his original business at 73 Renfield Street in Glasgow. George Mackie died in 1941 at the age of 77. According to his obituary in the Kirkintilloch Herald, he had a great interest in music, owning a fine collection of musical recordings and crafting musical instruments as a hobby. He also conducted the Players' Club Orchestra for a time and was an elder at St David's Church. The Upper Largo business continued under his name until 1975, when the firm of George Mackie Ltd, Dispensing Chemists (registered office: The Pharmacy, Upper Largo, Fife) was wound up voluntarily.

The School of Further Education (SFE, later known as the Scottish School of Further Education) was established at Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow, in 1966. It was the exclusive, national provider of basic, in-service training for further education teachers, leading to the award of a Teaching Qualification (Further Education) and entitlement to registration with the General Teaching Council for Scotland. A purpose-built facility for the SFE was opened on the Jordanhill campus in 1973, incorporating a library, offices and audio-visual support as well as an interconnecting multi-storey hostel to accommodate students during the residential blocks of their course.

The Teaching Qualification (Further Education) course, which initially had three intakes each year, was of the ’sandwich’ type, consisting of two 8-week (later 10-week) blocks of full-time attendance at the SFE and two terms of supervised teaching practice in the trainee teachers’ own further education colleges in between. The course fees and subsistence costs were covered by the students’ employers. In 1986, the TQ(FE) course was revised and extended over five consecutive terms, each term incorporating a period of full-time attendance at the SPE. The revised course, which had two intakes per year, now included 276 hours of distance teaching/learning activities and 24 hours of tutorial visits to students at their place of employment. In 1994, the course was rewritten in terms of competencies and restructured for a modular pattern of delivery.

From session 1973-1974, the SPE also offered basic training courses for teachers of nursing, midwifery and other professions supplementary to medicine, and ran short courses and conferences to meet specific needs among further education staff. In 1988, with the agreement of the Scottish Education Department, the Governors of Jordanhill College changed the SPE’s name to the Scottish School of Further Education (SSPE).

In 1989, the SSPE introduced a flexible programme of modular, credit-bearing courses for continuing staff development in further education, leading to the award of certificates, diplomas and degrees in ‘Post School Education Studies.’ The Curriculum Advice and Support Team (CAST), set up at Jordanhill College of Education in 1985, was assimilated into the SSFE in 1987.

In 1993, Jordanhill College merged with the University of Strathclyde to become Strathclyde’s Faculty of Education. The Jordanhill campus was retained by the University, and the SSPE remained there as a distinct department of the Faculty of Education for the next ten years. In 2003, a restructuring of the Faculty of Education into five large departments saw the SSPE subsumed into the new Department of Educational and Professional Studies with effect from 1 August that year.

The Directors of the SFE/SSFE were William M. T. Mason (1966-1970), Dennis R. Griffiths (1970-1972), James Stark (1972-1983), Stuart M. Niven (1983-1997), David Taylor (1997- 1999), Ian J. Finlay (Head of Department, 1999-2001) and Anne E. Nicolson (Acting Head of Department, 2001-2002).

National Life Stories (formerly the National Life Stories Collection) is an independent charitable trust within the British Library. It was established in 1987 to record, preserve and make available the first-hand experiences of people from as wide a cross-section of modern-day society as possible.

The Rotterdam Convention is a global treaty to manage chemicals in international trade.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) developed and promoted voluntary information exchange programmes in the mid-1980s. A series of meetings and activity led to the formalisation of the Rotterdam Convention. The text of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade was adopted and opened for signature at the Conference of Plenipotentiaries held in Rotterdam on 10 September 1998.
The Convention entered into force on 24 February 2004 and became legally binding for its parties.

The Scottish Iron and Steel Company was incorporated as a limited company in 1912, by the amalgamation of thirteen firms: Archibald Baird and Son Ltd; Downs and Jardine; Thomas Ellis Ltd; Glencairn Iron and Steel Co Ltd; C. F. MacLaren and Co; Hugh Martin and Sons; A. and T. Miller; John Spencer (Coatbridge) Ltd; William Tudhope and Son Ltd; Victoria Iron and Steel Co Ltd; Waverly Iron and Steel Co Ltd; Wylie and Co; Woodside Steel and Iron Co Ltd.

The specialities of the company included: iron and steel bars, angles, tees, hoops, and strips. The Northburn Iron and Steel Works was completed in 1920 and housed the first electrically-driven reversing mill to be erected in Scotland.

In 1938, the Scottish Iron and Steel Company Ltd was merged with William Baird and Company Ltd to form Bairds and Scottish Steel Ltd, pig iron and steel manufacturers.

The Study Circle was a Christian Fellowship established by the pacifist, Christian reformer and political activist, Robert Shanks (1870-1921). Shanks was born in Bridgeton and brought up in the East End of Glasgow. He was President of the Glasgow Eastern Branch of the Young Scots Society, which met in the Liberal Association Rooms in Whitevale Street. When the Great War broke out in August 1914, the Society temporarily ceased its activities, but Shanks and several of his fellow members wished to continue. Utilising the same venue, Shanks took it upon himself to deliver a series of addresses on ‘The War and Foreign Policy’. This initiative developed into a regular weekly meeting held under the name of the Eastern Study Circle ('Eastern' was subsequently dropped from the title). The weekly meeting was rescheduled to Sunday morning so that more people might attend and, at Shanks’ behest, a religious service was also incorporated.
The Study Circle proved so successful that it moved to progressively larger venues: a hall in Hillfoot Street in September 1916, the Central Halls in Bath Street in April 1917, and in December 1917, the Masonic Hall at 100 West Regent Street, with a capacity of 400. The primary purpose of the meeting, which now attracted people from all over Glasgow and the surrounding area, was to discuss the principles and problems of national and international life and the pressing social and political issues of the day, in the light of Christianity. A charismatic speaker and inspiring personality, Shanks delivered addresses and conducted the Study Circle's services for six years until his death in 1921. He also invited a variety of distinguished local, national and international guest speakers to address the meetings, which were always informal, non-sectarian, tolerant and humanitarian in tone. The Study Circle established its own Sunday School, a Current Topics Club and a Country Rambles Club for young people, and held occasional special lectures and an annual Peace Demonstration. It also instituted sewing parties, prison visiting and regular Sunday collections of clothing and food for the relief of distress both at home and abroad. After Shanks' death, William Niven, a Glasgow businessman who was one of the original members of the Study Circle, took charge of its weekly meeting, which continued until at least 1942.

The Department of History at Strathclyde came into being in the 1960s and rapidly developed throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

In 1959, the Department of Industrial Administration in the Royal College of Science and Technology were beginning to build up an inter-disciplinary team. By 1960 seven academics brought their individual specialisations to the staff: General Studies, Philosophy, History, Geography and Urban Planning and Literature. These staff members were: I.F. Clarke, Christopher Macrae, John Butt, Donald Gordon, Peter Green, Christopher Wiseman, and Michael Gregory.

These members of staff, alongside others in the Royal College of Science and Technology, joined the campaign for university status and with it the inclusion of Arts and Social Studies. In 1961 Sir Keith Murray and the University Grants Committee (UGC) accepted the College for university status. The following year, March 1962, the Royal College saw further development, with five new departments created: Economics, Politics, Psychology, Administration and Economic History.
In 1962 Samuel George Edgar Lythe became the founding Professor of Economic History at the Royal College of Science and Technology. In 1963 five members of staff made up the Economic History department: Lythe, John Ward, Richard Wilson, Michael Sanderson, and John Moore. In 1964 the Royal College merged with the Scottish College of Commerce and became the University of Strathclyde. Two members of staff joined the Economic History Department from the College of Commerce: Tom McAloon and Barbara Thatcher. Gordon Jackson also joined in 1964, as did John Butt who introduced American Economic History to the Department.

In 1974 the Senate and Court approved Lythe’s request for a new degree course: Modern History was founded in the university. The History department was then able to teach two-degree courses. John T. Ward was appointed as the first Professor of Modern History at Strathclyde. Lythe was also granted approval in 1974 to rename the department. It was no longer Economic History, but the Department of History.