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Annual general meeting papers; annual reports and accounts; board of directors' minutes and papers; correspondence and papers relating to acquisitions; papers relating to constitution; papers relating to shares; financial records; newsletters; news cuttings; publicity material.

Minutes, papers; correspondence; newsletters and other documents relating to IUFoST, the International Committee of Food Science and Technology and the International Union of Nutritional Sciences.

The John Hawthorn Archive comprises the records of two organisations concerned with food science: the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST) and the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST).

The combined collection is named after John Hawthorn, Professor of Food Science at the Royal College of Science and Technology and subsequently the University of Strathclyde. Professor Hawthorn was a founder member of IUFoST and instrumental in the deposit of IUFoST's records at the University of Strathclyde.

Students' Association membership card; photograph of the University of Strathclyde degree congregation of 30 October 1965 at 11.00 am and entrance ticket to the ceremony; Royal College of Science and Technology information booklet on courses of study, qualifications for admission and fees for session 1961-1962; Electrical Engineering laboratory notebook, session 1962-1963; course work reports submitted for classes in Applied Thermodynamics (sessions 1962-1963 and 1963-1964), Applied Mechanics (sessions 1962-1963 and 1963-1964), and Thermodynamics (session 1964-1965); letters from the Royal College of Science and Technology and the University of Strathclyde concerning admission to studies, submission of coursework, the award of the Henry Bell Scholarship, course results and graduation arrangements, 1961-1966.

Lecture notes; laboratory reports; tutorial notes; log book; essays and reports; thesis; introductory course notes; diary.

Letter announcing his retirement; recollections by Paton; volumes presented to Paton.

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.

Whigmaleeries (journal produced by librarianship students), 1962-1973; society membership card, 1987-1988.

Art and geography lesson and exercise notebooks, 1963-1964; coloured copy of graduation photograph of Elizabeth Meikle, c 1963.

11 folders of lecture notes and course work made by William Banks whilst a mechanical engineering student at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde.

Short introductory piece about Department of Politics, no date; information on classes offered by the Department, 1963-1970s; information on postgraduate study in the Department, 1987, no date; Survey Research Centre Occasional Papers, 1970-1974; Strathclyde Papers on Government and Politics, 1986-1987.

Inaugural Council minutes and papers, 1963-1964; Council minutes and papers, 1965-1986; annual general meeting minutes and papers, 1964-1985; committee minutes and papers, 1973-1989; Joint Master of Food Control Board minutes and papers, 1975-1985; files of honorary secretary of Scottish Branch, 1996-2000.

Photographs of students and Douglas House staff, Christmas 1963, June 1964.

Minutes and papers, 1963-1965; draft constitution, [1963]; correspondence on Club Room furnishings and facilities, 1963-1964.

Article entitled 'Scotland's fifth university'; reports on worldwide visits to other universities.