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P1686 · Person · 1952 to date

Alistair Goldsmith was educated at Jordanhill College School, Glasgow, and Marr College, Troon, Ayrshire. In the autumn of 1970, he commenced undergraduate studies at the Scottish Hotel School, University of Strathclyde, and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Hotel and Catering Management in 1973. He then completed a postgraduate course at Strathclyde, qualifying for the Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management in April 1975. After a spell as Catering Officer for the Waverley Steam Navigation Company Ltd in Glasgow (1978-1980), he was invited to return to the Scottish Hotel School in September 1980 to assist with teaching for a term. This temporary arrangement became permanent, and he remained on the staff of the Scottish Hotel School until his retirement in 2009. Whilst lecturing there, he also gained two postgraduate research degrees from the University of Strathclyde: an MLitt in History, awarded in 1985, and a PhD in History, awarded in 2002 for his thesis on 'The development of the City of Glasgow Police c.1800-c.1939.' In retirement, Dr Goldsmith is an active member of the University of Strathclyde Graduates' Association, serving as its President in 2024.

P1281 · Person · b. 1941

William Hamish Fraser was appointed Lecturer in History at the University of Strathclyde in 1967, and Professor in History in 1996. He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 1987 - 1993. He became Professor Emeritus in 2003.

He obtained an undergraduate degree at the University of Aberdeen and a doctorate in history at the University of Sussex. After graduating from the University of Aberdeen, Fraser became a postgraduate student in the mid-1960s. He gained his PhD in history at the University of Sussex in 1968. Fraser had already begun lecturing in the Department of Economic History in the University of Strathclyde in 1967.
Hamish Fraser published throughout his academic career and contributed greatly to Scottish history through his books published on Scottish labour and social history.

Hamish Fraser became a Senior lecturer in History in 1977. He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 1987-1993. He was a Reader from 1994 until 1996. In 1996 he became Professor of History, which he retained until his retirement in 2003. On retiral he became Professor Emeritus.

P1252 · Person · 1910-1997

Lythe was professor of Economic History, 1963-1976, Vice-Principal, 1972-1976, and Honorary Archivist from 1977-1980 at the University of Strathclyde.
Lythe graduated with an MA from Selwyn College Cambridge after which he was employed as a lecturer at Hull University. In 1935 Lythe moved to Dundee School of Economics. During the Second World War he served in the RAF. After the war, he continued working at the Dundee School of Economics where he pioneered the teaching of Economic History, publishing his groundbreaking book in 1950, entitled 'British Economic History since 1970'. In 1962 Lythe was appointed to the first Chair of Economic History at the Royal College of Science and Technology. Economic History was subsequently established in the University of Strathclyde in 1963- Lythe being the founding professor. At this point, there were only four other lecturers teaching alongside Lythe in this department. After the College gained University status in 1964, Lythe strove to develop the faculty of Economic History. He also aimed to develop Political History within the department. Lythe attained approval from the Senate and Court for a new degree course in Modern History in 1974. With this a new Chair was created. Lythe then sought approval to rename the department as 'History' which he was granted by the Senate and Court. In 1974 the History department was able to teach two-degree courses. After serving for nine years as the first Dean of the School of Arts and Social Studies, Lythe became Vice Principal of the University in 1972, retiring in 1976.
During Lythe’s time at the University of Strathclyde and following his retirement, he was involved in many committees and contributed a great deal to his field of study. Lythe was a founding member of the Abertay Historical Society in the 1960s. He organised public lectures and undertook local research. This organisation produced pamphlets on local history and Lythe edited many. He also produced booklets on the history of the village in which he grew up: Walkington.
Lythe was a member of the Scottish Local History Council, Hamilton College of Education, and the Scottish Field of Archaeology. He was on the Scottish Universities Summer School Committee. After Lythe’s retirement he continued to contribute greatly to the University of Strathclyde: he was appointed as the University’s honorary archivist in 1977, collecting and establishing the historical collections of the Institution, and served in this post until 1980.
Lythe died in 1997.

C0320 · Corporate body · c 1963 -

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 consequently: 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.

C0521 · Corporate body · 1966-2003

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).

P1684 · Person · fl. 1949 - 1981

Barbara M. Thatcher was a Business lecturer at the Scottish College of Commerce and then a Senior lecturer in Economic History at the university of Strathclyde.

Thatcher graduated with a BCom degree in History from London. In 1949, she was appointed to lecture in the Business Administration department at the Scottish College of Commerce. Thatcher became the College’s Adviser to Women Students in 1963. The Scottish College of Commerce merged with the University of Strathclyde in 1964 and so Thatcher joined the University and became the first woman lecturer in the Economic History Department. She became a Senior Lecturer before retiring in late September 1981. In 1982, she became an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of History at Strathclyde. She maintained this position until 1987.

During her retirement Thatcher made ecclesiastical history as she became one of the first Episcopal women priests to be ordained in Scotland in 1995.
Barbara Thatcher died in 2012.

Rotterdam Convention
C0520 · Corporate body · 2004 -

The Rotterdam Convention is a global treaty to manage chemicals in international trade. The dramatic growth in chemical production and trade during the past three decades has raised concerns about the potential risks posed by hazardous chemicals and pesticides. Countries lacking adequate infrastructure to monitor the import and use of these chemicals are particularly vulnerable.

In response to these concerns, 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.

P1188 · Person · fl 2010

Glenda White trained as a primary school teacher and worked in four primary schools in England and Scotland before moving into the field of teacher training. During the 1970s and early 1980s she lectured at Callander Park College of Education and Jordanhill College of Education, where she was Senior Lecturer in Primary Education. She then joined Her Majesty’s Inspectorate in 1985, inspecting pre-five, primary and secondary schools in the West of Scotland and Dumfries and Galloway. She moved on to become Chief Inspector of the Quality Assurance Unit at Strathclyde Regional Council in 1990, then Head of School Development for South Lanarkshire Council before taking early retirement. She subsequently became acting-headteacher of a ‘failing’ school and worked as an independent educational consultant, evaluating and advising schools and education authorities on aspects of quality assurance, management and the curriculum. Having fully retired from paid employment, she completed a doctoral thesis at the University of the West of Scotland on the life and work of the Scottish educationist, David Stow. Glenda White is presently an Honorary Teaching Fellow of the University of Glasgow and an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Strathclyde.

Collegium Ramazzini
C0519 · Corporate body · 1982 -

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

P0676 · Person · b. 1881

Maggie Sutherland was born in Glasgow on 18th October 1881. She graduated from the University of Glasgow where she was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science (1908) and Doctor of Science (1914). Sutherland was an Asssociate of the Institute of Chemistry (AIC) becoming Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry (FIC) around 1920.

Sutherland was appointed at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow as lecturer in chemistry in 1913; and lecturer in inorganic chemistry in 1935 until she resigned in 1947.

P1645 · Person

Charles Edward Donovan was an evening student in 1956-1957 on the Glasgow School of Management Studies Management Diploma Course, which was jointly run by the Scottish College of Commerce and the Royal College of Science and Technology. He obtained certificates in Economics, Human Relations and Psychology, Introduction to Management Principles, Analysis Techniques, Job Evaluation, Merit Rating and Incentives, and Work Measurement.

Donovan started a career in personnel at Rolls Royce in Glasgow. He moved to British Airways in 1958 and, in 1966, moved to the gas industry. In 1977, he was appointed Director of Industrial Relations at British Gas and, in 1981, Member for Personnel of the British Gas Corporation.

P1683 · Person · 1929 - 2002

John Butt B.A, PhD., was a lecturer in the Department of Industrial Administration, Royal College of Science and Technology, from 1957 until 1964 when he became a lecturer in American Economic History at the newly formed University of Strathclyde. He was a senior lecturer from 1975-1976 when he was appointed Professor of Economic History. He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Studies from 1978-1984. He was then appointed Vice Principle at the University of Strathclyde in 1988 and retired in the Autumn of 1994.

Butt graduated with a BA from the University of London, subsequently gaining his PhD from University of Glasgow. He joined the Royal College of Science and Technology in 1959 and was appointed to teach General Studies with an inter-disciplinary team in the Department of Industrial Administration. The goal was to teach a range of courses including History, Philosophy, Geography and Urban Planning, and Literature. In 1964, the College was given university status, and five new departments were created - Economics, Politics, Psychology, Administration and Economic and Industrial History. The Scottish College of Commerce merged with the university in 1964 and Butt introduced American Economic History. He was a senior lecturer from 1975 to 1976. Butt succeeded S. G. E Lythe as Professor of Economic History and in this role, he took on a new project – uncovering and writing the History of the University of Strathclyde. This involved case studies of individuals who made an important impact on the legacy of the university: John Anderson, David Livingstone, and Thomas Graham.
He served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Studies from 1978-84 and Deputy Principal in 1986. On the 1st of August 1988 Butt was appointed to Vice Principle.
Butt was also chairman of the governors of Craigie College, Ayr. He served in the military education committee and the general teaching council. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was a member of the Royal Commonwealth Society.

John Butt served the History Department at Strathclyde for 37 years, and under his management the History Department was granted an A excellence rating by the University Grants Committee. In Autumn, 1994 Butt retired from the University of Strathclyde. He died on the 3rd of July 2002 at the age of 73.