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The Creative Writing department employs experienced writers to teach practical skills in the craft of fiction, poetry and script writing, as well as creative non-fiction and writing narrative for new media. In conjunction with the University of Glasgow, the Department established one of the first M.Litt courses in Creative Writing in the 1990s.

The Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group is a registered charity which provides support to people with asbestos-related diseases and their families. In Britain, asbestos is typically associated with Britain's tradition of heavy industry, due to its widespread use in power stations, shipbuilding, factories, and dockyards, but asbestos was also used in the construction of a wide variety of building types, including shops and schools.

The Association of Speech Therapists joined with the British Society of Speech Therapists in 1945 to form the College of Speech Therapists, which was renamed the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in 1995, when it turned fifty.

The British Society of Speech Therapists joined with the Association of Speech Therapists in 1945. The amalgamation of these two organisations formed the College of Speech Therapists

The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists is the UK Speech and Language Therapists' professional body. It sets and maintains standards for the education, clinical practice, and ethical conduct of UK Speech and Language Therapists.

The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists was founded in 1945, at which time it was called the College of Speech Therapists. The College was created when two pre-existing organisations, the Association of Speech Therapists and the British Society of Speech Therapists, merged. It was incorporated 02 Apr 1953.

The College introduced its own diplomas for Speech Therapists in 1947, and ultimately succeeded in introducing university degree courses in the area - by 1985, all new professionals were graduates.

The members of the College of Speech Therapists voted in 1991 to change their name to the College of Speech and Language Therapists, and there was another name change in 1995 (the College's Golden Jubilee year) making it the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.

The National Council of Labour Colleges (N.C.L.C.) conducted education schemes for more than one hundred trade unions as well as for co-operative societies, trades councils and other working-class bodies throughout the United Kingdom.

The Glasgow Stock Exchange merged with other exchanges in Scotland in 1964 to become the Scottish Stock Exchange.

The Scottish Mountaineering Club was formed in Glasgow in 1889, as a result of correspondence in the Glasgow Herald initiated by William W. Naismith.

Photography studio established 1854 in Florence.

The origins of the firm date back to 1937, when Ralph George Covell set up an architectural practice in Westminster, London. In 1948, Covell was joined in business by A E T Matthews, and the practice became known as Covell & Matthews. From 1960, it was known as Covell Matthews & Partners, with offices in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh by 1970. When Covell retired in 1972, the practice changed its name to the Covell Matthews Partnership. In 1976, Covell Matthews Scotland became a separate company within the group. The original company was closed down in 1992, and the Scottish practice became Covell Matthews Architects Ltd.
Covell Matthews & Partners worked on various architectural projects for the University of Strathclyde, including the McCance Building (1962), the conversion of the former Beresford Hotel to the Baird Hall (1964), the Livingstone Tower (1965), and the extension of the Library and exhibition hall (1970). It also submitted a scheme for the University's recreation centre at Stepps, but the University chose to work with another firm on that occasion.

The Birmingham Small Arms Company was established in 1861 for the manufacture of military rifles.

From 1880 it went into bicycle manufacture, making its own designs from 1881.