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GB 249 SOHC 33 · Collection · August - October 2016

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.

Stride, Rory, fl. 2016, student at University of Strathclyde
GB 249 SOHC 18 · Collection · 2009

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.

University of Strathclyde | Scottish Oral History Centre
GB 249 SOHC 8 · Collection · Original recordings, 2005

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.

University of Strathclyde | Scottish Oral History Centre
GB 249 ON/1 · Collection · 1967 - 1973

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.

University of Strathclyde Housing for Glasgow Trust Limited
GB 249 OF/18 · Collection · 1956 - 2003 and no date

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.

University of Strathclyde | Department of English Studies
Antonia Bunch papers
GB 249 OM/486 · File · c. 1981-1986

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'.

Bunch, Antonia Janette, 1937-2023, OBE, librarian
Strathclyde collection
GB 249 SC Strathclyde · Collection · 1799 to date

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.

University of Strathclyde | Library
GB 249 JCE/22/7/12 · Item · 1962

Jordanhill College of Education student blazer, manufactured by R.W. Forsyth Ltd and worn by former student, John Connor.
Single-breasted blazer with one breast pocket on the left-hand side, two front pockets on the lower left and right, and three plain, circular, gold-tone buttons to fasten. The blazer is made of navy, woollen fabric; the collar, pockets, cuffs and edges are trimmed with a striped, grosgrain band of red, blue and yellow. Sewn upon the breast pocket is a fabric badge featuring the Jordanhill College of Education crest in red, white, blue, green, black and gold, with the College motto 'UT ET ALIOS INSTRUAM' - 'so that I may instruct others' - embroidered in gold upon a blue ribbon scroll below the crest. Embroidered in gold above the crest are the letters 'J.C.E.A.F.C.' [Jordanhill College of Education Association Football Club?], and below the crest, the dates '1962' and '1963'.

Connor, John, 1940-2014, teacher
Drury papers
GB 249 DRU · Collection · 1921 - 1960s

Papers of the Rev. William Drury, a founder member of the English Linear Cities Association, relating to his research and thinking in linear city planning. Contents include:

Drury's research notes and card index; English Linear Cities Association publications (written by Drury and others), 1930s; typed and printed articles by Drury, 1921-1943; letters to Drury, 1930s; letters to Irene Drury, Drury's widow, from George Collins, Associate Professor of Art History, Columbia University, 1960s; Association des Cités-Jardins de France 35th annual report, 1939; report entitled 'The Motor Road - Forerunner of the Universal City' by C. Theodore Larson, 1963; newspaper cuttings, 1930s-1960s; biographical information about Drury.

Drury, William, 1876-1943, clergyman
Margaret Bradley papers
GB 249 OM/485 · Collection · c. 1970s - c. 2000s

University of Strathclyde undergraduate student cards for sessions 1976-1977 and 1978-1979; University of Strathclyde jumper; memorandum announcing awards of BA (Hons) Accountancy degrees to students in the School of Business and Administration at the University of Strathclyde; copy of graduation photograph; cutting from an unidentified [company?] publication, containing a photograph of Margaret Bradley and stating her date of joining and her qualification from the University of Strathclyde; Chartered Association of Certified Accountants student registration card; certificate of completion of a course on Computer Applications for the Expanding Business at North Glasgow College; Glasgow North Housing Association staff name badge.

Bradley, Margaret Donnelly, 1944-2023, accountant
GB 249 OF/26 · Collection · 1944-2007
  • Management committee papers
  • Annual reports
  • Financial records
  • Estates and buildings records
  • Certificates of accreditation of courses
  • Prospectuses
  • Course leaflets
  • Handbooks for international students
  • Examination papers
  • Awards ceremony programmes
  • Student records
  • Prize and scholarship records
  • Uniforms
  • Student memorabilia
  • Group photographs
  • Internationale Kochkunst Grosser Preis medal
  • Function menus
  • Visitors' books
  • News cuttings books
  • Year books and newsletters
  • Teaching aids
  • Published articles about the Scottish Hotel School
  • Corporate merchandise
  • Board game entitled 'Who wants to be a hotelier'
  • Certificate of corporate membership of Hospitality Action
  • Scottish Hotel School Library records
Scottish Hotel School
John Logie Baird papers
GB 249 OM/11 · Collection · 1906 - 2009

Drawings; notebooks; certificates and diplomas; obituary; student ephemera; published articles; testimonials; articles of association and share certificates for Baird Television Limited; press cuttings and publications relating to John Logie Baird.

Baird, John Logie, 1888-1946, television pioneer
John Armour papers
GB 249 OM/484 · Collection · 1918-1990

Copy of 'The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth', awarded to John Armour as Dux of Allan Glen's School, session 1917-1918; Arkela Badge certificate, granted to John Armour, District Cubmaster, West Glasgow, 19 October 1923; short story written by John Armour, entitled 'A Comedy of the Kirk'; copy of a photograph taken on the occasion of John Armour's 90th birthday.

Armour, John, b. 1900, chemist
Hugh Lang papers
GB 249 T-LA · Collection · 1860 - 1862

Incoming letters to Hugh Lang, mainly from his plantation manager, William Peebles, and various merchants, relating to the management of his estates in St. Croix in the Danish West Indies. Topics include the production of sugar, rum and molasses; the effects of the weather on production; shipments and sales of sugar, rum and molasses; sugar, rum and molasses prices and state of the markets; shortage of labourers; the provision of supplies to the estates; the valuation and sale of the Estate William. There are also some letters from family members including Ann Beckett of St. Croix (Lang's daughter); George Zachariae of Copenhagen (Lang's son-in-law); and Alexander and Lizzie Eckford, of India (Lizzie Eckford is Lang's niece).

Lang, Hugh, 1779-1864, plantation owner
GB 249 OS/55/2 · Series · 1965-2023

Details recorded are graduate's name, signature, degree and class of degree.
No graduation ceremonies were held during 2020 or in summer 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A series of catch-up ceremonies, officially known as 'Celebrations of Graduation', was held from 18 March - 1 April 2022 so that students who had been obliged to graduate in absentia during the pandemic could attend a ceremony in person.

University of Strathclyde | Academic Registrar