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John Anderson papers
GB 249 OA · Collection · 1721 - 1798

Personal items; letters; writings on scientific, military, antiquarian and other topics; material relating to Anderson's involvement with the University of Glasgow.

Anderson, John, 1726-1796, natural philosopher
Anderson's College records
GB 249 OB · Collection · 1796-1887

Records relating to governance; constitutional and legal records; annual reports; calendars; class and lecture advertisements, programmes and syllabuses; class admission tickets; subscription lists; financial records; draft contract relating to property in John Street; student records; library and museum records; lectures.

Anderson's College, Glasgow
GB 249 OC · Collection · 1823-1887

Minute books; annual reports; financial records; subscriptions books; letter books; memorandum and articles of association; class timetable; examination paper; architectural drawings used in art classes.

College of Science and Arts, Glasgow
GB 249 ODA · Collection · 1869-1888

Minute book; financial records; correspondence and papers relating to the establishment of the chair.

Young Chair of Technical Chemistry, Glasgow
GB 249 ODB · Collection · 1833-1888

Minute books, 1833-1887; cash books, 1833-1852, 1882-1887; legal papers and accounts, 1833-1888.

Atkinson's Institution, Glasgow
GB 249 ODC · Collection · 1850-2003

Personal accounts and receipts relating to Allan Glen 1845-1848; will, plans and deeds 1850-1851; Acts of Parliament, Educational Endowments 1876, 1908, 1912; financial and legal papers relating to the amalgamation of the School with the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College 1886-1888; financial records 1876-1912; buildings report 1894; bursary and scholarship applicants 1853, 1911; applicants for teaching post 1853 and list of teachers 1912; correspondence with Scotch Education Department, circulars etc 1907-1912; reports by His Majesty's Inspectors of Schools 1911, 1912; correspondence concerning the transfer of the School to the School Board of Glasgow 1910-1912; School magazine 1934 and 150th anniversary newsletters; books and pamphlets on the history of the School 1953, 1972, 2003; book of remembrance 1939-1945; coat of arms 1939.

Allan Glen's Institution, Glasgow
GB 249 OE/16 · Collection · 1903 - 1965

Minutes and papers of the Joint Committee 1903-1964; financial records 1954-1963; student records 1905, 1908-1964; correspondence 1944-1964; calendars and prospectuses 1948/1949-1963/1964; press cuttings 1947-1965.

Glasgow School of Architecture
GB 249 OE/17 · Collection · 1947-1963

Minutes and papers of the Joint Committee 1947-1963; financial records 1949-1963; prospectuses 1948/1949-1963/1964; report on Turnbull Travelling Scholarship in Management Studies 1956.

Glasgow School of Management
GB 249 OEDA · Collection · 1969-2009
  • early correspondence and papers relating to Nancy Tait’s fact-finding mission regarding asbestos
  • minutes of meetings of the SPAID/OEDA Trustees, annual reports, strategic plans
  • registers and other finding aids for the extensive OEDA case file series (OEDA CF); see link below
  • information resources on employers and insurers and other materials for supporting compensation claims
  • some case correspondence, medical appeals correspondence, correspondence with the medical appeal administration, and with the social security commissioner
  • documentation of the different types of information services provided by SPAID / OEDA, among them series relating to occupational and environmental health enquiries; SPAID / OEDA publications and display boards; responses to requests for information from solicitors; and responses to requests for information from the media
  • records relating to SPAID/OEDA's research into asbestos related diseases, mortality statistics, latency periods; also testimony before commissions, consultancy reports
  • SPAID/OEDA's extensive advocacy work over four decades
  • interactions with victims support groups, unions, fellow activists, occupational health experts, historians, solicitors and legal scholars
  • conferences and meetings to which Nancy Tait and her organisation contributed or which she attended
  • information files compiled on specific topics
  • series of correspondence and telephone memoranda
  • SPAID/OEDA accounts; also fundraising activities including grant applications
  • some documentation of the creation and running of the Electron Microscope Research Unit
  • instructions and manuals relating to office procedures and information management in the organisation
  • reference library (OEDA/K) including the organisation's collection of scientific papers, deposits and judgements, statutory instruments, DSS claims forms 1969-2007, clusters of press coverage, etc

Further,

  • OEDA collection of printed material; see link below
  • ten series of case files (OEDA CF, see link below)
  • OEDA's copies of the Chase Manhattan Turner & Newall papers (OEDA CM, see link below)
  • several standalone collections accepted to the OEDA archive during the 1990s, including the research papers of M J Sanders, records of Cancer Prevention Society, Glasgow, and the papers documenting refrigeration management worker W H Knight's compensation claim; see links below
Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association
GB 249 OEDA CM · Collection · c. 1920 - 1998

Copies of content from the Turner & Newall (T&N) corporate archive, Manchester, which were given to the Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association by Chase Manhattan Bank.

The collection comprises correspondence about the papers and lawyer Michael O'Connor's mission to distribute them, followed by Turner & Newall corporate papers relating to:

  • minutes of meetings
  • industry regulation
  • compensation (including all manner of case information)
  • health and safety measures
  • epidemiological research on asbestos
  • documentaries on the asbestos industry
  • company histories

The collection concludes with a single dossier on legal actions relating to the former site of Turner Asbestos Cement Co Ltd (later TAC Construction Materials Ltd) at Dalmuir.

Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association
GB 249 OF 19 · Collection · 1970 - 2011

Press releases, newsletters, posters, programmes, correspondence and production files, minutes, reports, scripts, audience and usage figures, financial records, photographs.

Strathclyde Theatre Group
GB 249 OF/1 · Collection · 1862-2003

Records relating to the teaching of physics at the University of Strathclyde and the Royal College of Science and Technology, the Royal Technical College, the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College and Anderson's College (the antecedents of the University of Strathclyde).

University of Strathclyde | Department of Physics
GB 249 OF/13 · Collection · 1958 - 2005

Departmental teaching handouts, 1958; ephemera, 1967; information on courses, c 1980-1989; teaching materials, 1983-1985; material connected to professional associations and societies, 1988-1992; class notes, 2005; final year student yearbooks, 1988-2004; Apothecary Tales (history of the Department), 1991.

University of Strathclyde | Department of Pharmacy
GB 249 OF/17 · Collection · 1967 - 1997

Undergraduate prospectuses, 1967-c 1991; first, second and third year studies in geography handbooks, 1971-1997; leaflets on research degrees and research opportunities, c 1988-1990.

University of Strathclyde | Department of Geography