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Papers relating to Charles Donovan's time as an evening student on the Diploma in Management Studies at the Glasgow School of Management Studies, 1956-1957. Contents include:

• Letter to Donovan from Scottish College of Commerce Department of Management Studies, 1956
• Course handouts, 1955-1957
• Handwritten Industrial Psychology course notes, 1956-1957
• Student certificates, 1956-1957
• Examination papers, 1956-1957
• Factory Management examination answer booklet, 1957
• Royal Technical College prospectus of part-time classes, 1956-1957
• Glasgow School of Management Studies prospectus, 1957-1958
• Announcement of appointment of Donovan as Member for Personnel of the British Gas Corporation, 1981
• The London Gazette, March 1981 (contains announcement of appointment of Donovan at British Gas)

The Scottish Oral History Centre Archive is an extensive collection of oral history recordings focussing on the history of work, occupational health and the social impact of de-industrialisation. Most of the recordings originate from projects carried out by Scottish Oral History Centre staff and students but there are also large collections of interviews originating from other organisations, for example Glasgow Museums and the Scottish Working People’s History Trust.

Oral history project, conducted by Callum G. Brown, in 1997. The aim of the project was to study the festival of Up-helly-aa, an annual winter-time festival celebrated across the island of Shetland. The interviews were a key part of the research for Callum Brown's book: 'Up-helly-aa: Custom, culture and community in Shetland' (1998).
The collection comprises 9 digital audio recordings of 6 interviews (digitised from original tapes) and 6 paper transcripts (with digital access copies): some labelled as 'partial' transcripts, and others labelled as 'full relevant' transcripts.
There are 9 interviewees. Some were interviewed together.

Order of service for the memorial service for Professor Sir John P. Arbuthnott, former Principal of the University of Strathclyde. The service was held in the Barony Hall, 29 November 2023. Also includes obituary inside the order of service.

Students at Aviemore, c. 1956, at Aberdeen, 1950, and in Jordanhill College grounds.

The University's mission, aims, objectives and strategic plans.

Printed material collected by the Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association.

Oral history project conducted in 2016 by Rory Stride as research for his undergraduate history dissertation, ‘“Proud to be a Clyde shipbuilder. Clyde built”: The changing work identity of Govan’s shipbuilders, c.1960-present.’ The collection comprises interviews with seven men who were employed as shipbuilders between c.1960 and 2016 at Govan’s three shipyards: Alexander Stephen and Sons, Fairfield’s, and Harland and Wolff. The interviews were conducted in a variety of places across Glasgow. The interview questions were semi-structured and largely directed by the responses of the participants. Topics discussed include trade unions, working conditions, occupational injury, masculinity, politics, staff camaraderie, redundancy and periods of employment at different companies. There is a focus throughout the interviews on indicators and expression of masculine identity including alcohol consumption, paid employment and macho attitudes in the yards. The interviews also cover the workers' interactions with the trade union movement, focusing on their experiences of strike action. In addition, some of the key episodes in the Clyde’s shipbuilding history during the twentieth century are covered including: the closure of Harland and Wolff; the closure of Alexander Stephen and Sons; the Norwegian company Kvaerner’s takeover of the Fairfield yard from British Shipbuilders in 1988 and the withdrawal of Kvaerner from Govan in 1999 which threatened the existence of shipbuilding on the Clyde heading in to the twenty-first century.

Oral history project, conducted in 2009 by David Walker of the Scottish Oral History Centre at the University of Strathclyde on behalf of Glasgow Museums, interviewing those who had earned their living working at Glasgow’s docks. A total of 17 men were selected as suitable for the project but in the end only 12 participated, with some becoming ill and others unavailable for interview. Although a smaller cohort was used than originally intended it did provide a representative sample of workers with experience of most of the docks that operated along the Upper Clyde at Glasgow and its environs. The group also had experience of many of the jobs undertaken such as electrician, plan maker and superintendent stevedore, plater, winch operator, checker, and crane driver. One additional respondent was interviewed who had never worked at the docks but had lived at Shiels Farm and had witnessed the opening of the still operational King George V dock in 1931. The average age of those interviewed was 72 with birth dates ranging from 1926 to 1947. All of the interviews were conducted at the respondent’s home with one exception which was conducted at the Scottish Oral History Centre.

The interviews were semi-structured in style which allowed the respondents to talk beyond their working lives. Hence the testimonies provide evidence of the daily work and conditions in which their working lives were undertaken but they also touch on other aspects of their lives, including family relationships, early job opportunities and trade union activities. The respondents were not only generous in donating their memories but also in providing photographic images which help illustrate the people interviewed, the types of ships that they worked on, buildings now demolished, and tasks undertaken such as handling large steel slabs, grain, coal or scrap iron. Although each interview was conducted separately there was some overlap in the recollections mainly due to the fact that many of the men knew each other as workmates and inevitably they were exposed to similar events in their careers.

Conversations between Neil Rafeek and two men who spent their working lives as laggers in the Clydeside heavy industries. Topics covered include childhood and growing up in Glasgow, the Clydebank blitz, housing, domestic life, social life, football, sectarianism, gang culture, National Service, working conditions, trade unions, health and safety, asbestos.

Includes notes and draft publications relating to a project about the working culture and notions of masculinity in Clydeside heavy industries.

Papers of initial meetings to set up Trust, 1967; minutes and papers, 1968-1971; correspondence, 1971-1972; financial records, 1967-1973; papers for Glasgow Corporation's House Improvement and Rehabilitation conference held at City Hall, 8 February 1971; circulars on housing trusts including Christian Aid (Glasgow) Housing Association Limited, 1967.

General information about the department, [1987] and undated; information about undergraduate and postgraduate courses offered by the Department, 1964-[1988] and undated; General Studies course material, 1956-1964; information about the research programme in Literary Linguistics, 1986, 1988; departmental poetry and short story competition prizewinning poems and selection of entries, 1970-2002; guidelines on essay writing and examination technique, [1995]-2000; departmental undergraduate handbooks, 1994-2003; notice advertising Town and Gown seminar in Royal College, 1981; literary linguistics conference programme, 1986.

Handwritten lecture notes for Antonia Bunch's first-year undergraduate class in Information Studies, taught within the Department of Librarianship at the University of Strathclyde.
Topics covered in the notes include: information; communication; the development and history of libraries; and the press, publishing and the book trade. The folder also includes a typed list of prescribed essay subjects for Term 1, several information sheets from the British Museum's Room of Writing, newspaper cuttings, book reviews and some photocopied chapters from books, all of which were presumably used to inform the lectures.
The notes were originally contained in an A4 ring binder labelled 'From the Clay Tablet to the Microchip'.

The Strathclyde collection comprises printed or published material by or about the University of Strathclyde and its staff. There are three components to the collection:

• Strathclyde staff collection comprising publications by members of staff of the University, including monographs or other publications (except periodical articles) of which a member of staff is prominent as an author, compiler, editor, translator, illustrator, consultant, etc during their University employment.

• Strathclyde official collection comprising publications of the University or its constituent organisations, including: official publications of the University as a whole; publications of departments and faculties; student, staff and graduate association publications.

• Strathclyde serial collection comprising serial/journal publications, newspapers, newsletters and annuals of the University or its constituent organisations, including: official publications of the University as a whole; publications of departments and faculties; student, staff and graduate association publications.