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Oral history project, conducted in May - September 2018 by Rory Stride, with women formerly employed at James Templeton & Co., carpet manufacturers, between c. 1960 and 1981. A total of six women were interviewed. The interviews last approximately between 45 minutes and 1 hour 15 minutes and were conducted at a variety of places across Scotland. The interview questions were semi-structured and largely directed by the responses of the participants.

The interviews focus on the women’s working lives and their first experiences of employment after secondary school but specifically exploring their experience of work at James Templeton & Co., the preeminent carpet manufacturers in Glasgow during the 1960s and 1970s. The company had seven factories, located in the east end and southside of Glasgow with the company’s Crown Street factory being the last to close in early 1981 when Templeton Carpets amalgamated with Stoddard Carpets. Topics discussed include trade unions, working conditions, gender divisions in labour, staff camaraderie, management and staff relationships, and periods of redundancy, unemployment and re-employment after leaving James Templeton & Co. The interviews also cover the women's feelings and opinions regarding the gentrification and redevelopment of the former headquarters and factory of James Templeton & Co. located at Templeton Street on the north eastern edge of Glasgow Green.

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).

Includes minutes, correspondence, reports, circulars, newsletters, flyers.

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 on 1st and 8th October 2014 by Rebekah Russell for her history honours dissertation entitled 'Deindustrialisation in Springburn and the impacts on women's lives in 1960-1990' at the University of Strathclyde. The project aimed to gather information as to the nature of working life and the impact of local factory closures on women who lived or worked in the Springburn area of Glasgow during the period 1960-1990. 8 retired women were interviewed at the Alive & Kicking Project, Springburn: Betty Long, Catherine Rogers, Isabella Martin, Joan Pollock, May McAleese, Molly Roy, Margaret Cullen and Susan McFarlane. Topics covered in interview included descriptions of daily life during the period, details of job losses, redundancies, health issues, gender stereotypes encountered in the workplace, struggles for equal rights and equal pay with male work colleagues, and the effect upon the women, their families and their community of local factory closures in Springburn during the Thatcher Government of the 1980s. Some transcripts are incomplete.

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)

Papers of Colin Kirkwood, writer, academic and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and Gerri (Geraldine) Kirkwood, adult and community educator, community activist and English teacher, relating to community activism, writers' workshops and adult educational work in Glasgow, Edinburgh and the North Midlands in England.

Includes:

• Letters and poems from Scottish writers and poets, including Tom Leonard, Bob Tait, Edwin Morgan and Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1960s-2005
• Copies of the community newspaper 'Staveley Now', 1970-1973, and letters and papers relating to community work and adult education in Staveley, Derbyshire, 1969-1976
• Copies of the community newspaper 'Castlemilk Today', 1973-1978, and the tenants' newspaper 'Scottish Tenant', 1973-1974, and papers relating to community action in Castlemilk, Glasgow, 1974-1984
• Research by Chris Clarke on Castlemilk community action and critical theory, and related letters, c. 1977-1980
• Recording of a discussion between Colin Kirkwood and Tom Leonard about Leonard's poetry, 1984
• Papers relating to the implementation of the ideas of the Brazilian adult educator, Paulo Freire, in the Adult Learning Project in the Gorgie Dalry area of Edinburgh, c. 1975-1997
• Copies of 'Scottish International' and 'Feedback' magazines, 1967-1973
• Books and articles by Colin and Gerri Kirkwood, 1984-2015
• Reviews of 'Living Adult Education: Freire in Scotland' by Colin and Gerri Kirkwood (1989) and of 'Vulgar Eloquence: Essays in Education, Community and Politics' by Colin Kirkwood (1990)
• Writers' workshop publications, 1980s

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

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.

Diaries and notebooks; correspondence; patents and legal cases; financial papers; technical and scientific notes; newspaper cuttings; educational and personal items.

Minutes of Board of Management; annual reports to Church of Scotland; visitors' books; student records; examination papers; prospectus; biographical information on college staff; student memorabilia and magazines; photographs; library catalogue 1880; HMI reports on college; published books and articles about the college; Dundas Vale Practising School log books.

Minutes of meetings of Board of Management; student records; examination papers; biographical information about rectors and college staff; student memorabilia and magazine; photographs and press cuttings; library catalogue; HMI reports on college; published books and articles concerning the college.

Annual reports 1829 and 1830; visitors' book; Glasgow Infant School magazine; engraving; press cuttings and journal articles.

Research papers; lectures and published works; papers relating to official visits by Principal and Lady Curran; diary of Manhattan Project; transcript of filmed interview; papers relating to the development of the Royal College and the University of Strathclyde.

Notebooks of experimental work; correspondence; testimonials; published articles by Graham, including his probationary essay to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.