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Obituaries of Nancy Tait collected by her colleague and friend Joan Griffiths. Further includes:

• correspondence between Nancy Tait and British Rail over her ticket, 1975, illustrating her tenaciousness
• Joan Griffiths' compilation on Nancy Tait's achievements
• Nancy Tait's questionnaire for the research project 'Citizen involvement in health care: meanings, motivations and means', Health in Partnership Project, Department of Health, 2001

Recording of David Walker in conversation with Frank Kennedy, aged 78, in 2009.

Recording of David Walker in conversation with Steve McIntosh, aged 72, in 2009.

Also, photograph of painting of docks scene.

Recording and transcript of David Walker in conversation with Owen McIntyre, aged 62, on 13 August 2009.

Also photograph of McIntyre in 1963, two years prior to staring work in the docks.

Recording of David Walker in conversation with Malcolm McLeod, aged 72, in 2009.

Recording of David Walker in conversation with Alfred McMillan, aged 75, in 2009.

Recording and transcript of David Walker in conversation with William Sloan, aged 81, in 2009.

Recording of David Walker in conversation with David Stark, aged 66, in 2009.

Policies and procedures on admissions; appeals, complaints and discipline; assessment, feedback and external examiners; collaborative programmes and flexible learning; course development; student engagement; employability and personal development planning; equality, diversity and disability; internal review; postgraduate instructional and research programmes.

Folder entitled 'Press: 01/[ ]'

Newspaper cuttings relating to Ludovic Kennedy.

Recording and transcript of David Walker in conversation with Jessie Fulton in 2009. Jessie Fulton lived in a farmhouse next to the King George V dock in Glasgow and witnessed its opening in the 1930s.

Recording of David Walker in conversation with Duncan McGillivray, aged 67, in 2009.

Recording and transcript of David Walker in conversation with Thomas O'Connor, aged 72, in 2009.

Recording and transcript of David Walker in conversation with James McGrath, known to most as Jaff, aged 83, on 12 August 2009.

Synopsis: Born 1926 and worked as a docker in most of Glasgow’s docks from 1951 until 1989. Brief discussion of family, education, first job as apprentice cooper and thereafter describes the ‘terrible’ booking-on method of obtaining work in the docks. Talks about the stamping system if no work was available, power of foremen pre-decasualisation, cargoes of asbestos and conditions of work, reaction to news that he had pleural plaques, handling of bulk grain cargoes, dusty conditions, religion, camaraderie, hours of work, working with stevedores, theft of cargoes, containerisation, wages, dangers of work, issue of safety clothing and lack of facilities

Also, photographs of James McGrath and fellow dockers in various settings including the canteen at Hunterston, the canteen at King George V docks, on various dockers' outings and as members of Glasgow dockers' football teams in the early 1960s. Fellow dockers include Tom O'Connor, Jackie Johnstone, Billy McGrath, Eddie Wales and John Campbell. Also photographs of the Glasgow harbour tunnel rotunda, a crane at King George V docks, and steel and other items being lifted and loaded at King George V docks.