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Constitution, 1946; minutes of general meetings, 1945-1958; minutes of Council meetings, 1945-1958; information leaflet on Council activities, 1953-1954.

Sample of cardboard weaving and buttonhole made by Jean Taylor, a student at Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow.

Typescript.

Job application and testimonials for position of director of Royal Technical College, Glasgow; articles and speeches; correspondence; notes on developments at Royal Technical College and Royal College of Science and Technology under Anderson's directorship; order of service of thanksgiving for Anderson's life.

Electrical engineering lecture notes 1945-1947; electrical engineering laboratory reports 1945-1947; applied heat lecture notes 1946-1948; applied heat tutorial notes 1947-1948; electronics A2 lecture notes 1947-1949.

Published papers; application for lectureship in naval architecture; letter of appointment to chair of shipbuilding and naval architecture; lecture notes; papers relating to department of naval architecture.

Application (including testimonials) by Adam Thomson for the professorship of civil and mechanical engineering and applied mechanics at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow.

Royal Technical College Diploma in Engineering Science as applied to Electrical Engineering, 1946; Royal Technical College Certificate of Associateship in Electrical Engineering, 1947; thesis presented for the Associateship of the Royal Technical College (ARTC), 1947.

Research for and drafts of two published works by Ludovic Kennedy - 'Ten Rillington Place' (published 1961) and 'The Trial of Stephen Ward' (published 1964) - and two unpublished works - 'Lieutenant' and 'Saying Goodbye to Big Daddy’.

The collection also includes correspondence between Kennedy and his typist and copy-editor, Eileen O'Neill, 1966-c.2009; two photographs of Kennedy and his family, c. 1960s; an auction catalogue for the sale of Piers Place, Old Amersham (Kennedy's home), 1965; newspaper cuttings about Kennedy, 2004-2009; Kennedy's cigarette case, c.1960s.

Notes for lessons, 1946-1948 (subjects include education, general methods, educational psychology, English literature, classroom English, speech training, arithmetic, history, geography, natural science, music, physical training and hygiene); examination papers, 1946-1948; Glasgow Training Centre prospectus, 1946-1947; Glasgow Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers Article 55 prospectus, 1947; general methods non-graduate lecture scheme syllabus for first and second years, 1946-1947; Methods Department notes on beginning teaching, c 1946; programme for series of four concerts by Scottish Orchestra, 1947.

Inlaid wooden plaque made by John Donald McCrone Weir, c. 1946.

The collection comprises Ronald Livesey's school, college and professional examination papers, with their original cardboard binder. The following papers are included, some with annotations showing which questions were attempted:

• Sea Cadet Corps: Mechanics Badge (c 1946)
• Scottish Education Department, Senior Leaving Certificate Examination: English (March 1946); Arithmetic (March 1946); Geography Lower Grade (March 1946), Mathematics Lower Grade (March 1946); Mathematics Higher Grade (March 1947): French Lower Grade (March 1946 and March 1947); Science: Physics Higher Grade (March 1946); Science: Engineering Technical Subjects Group II Higher Grade (March 1946); Mathematics: Dynamics Higher Grade (March 1947)
• Scottish Universities Entrance Board Preliminary Examination: Mathematics (Higher Standard, August 1947)
• Royal Technical College, Glasgow, Higher National Certificate course: final examinations: Mathematics S.2 (April 1947); Engineering Drawing S.2 (April 1947); Electrical Science S.2 (April 1947); Applied Mechanics S.3 (March 1948); Applied Heat S.3 (March 1948); Technical Mathematics S.3 (March 1948); Civil Engineering Materials A.1 (March 1949); Mathematics A.1 (April 1949); Engineering Materials A.1 (April 1949); Structures A.1 (April 1949); Engineering Drawing A.2 (March 1950); Soil Mechanics A.2 (March 1950); Applied Electricity A.1 (March 1950); Structures A.2 (March 1950); Hydromechanics A.2 (March 1951); Structural Design A.2 (Reinforced Concrete - March 1951); Geology A.3 (March 1951); Surveying A.3 (March 1951)
• Royal College of Science and Technology, Glasgow: final examination in Roads and Road Construction (March 1959)
• Institution of Civil Engineers, membership examination: alternative subjects for inverview, candidate no.207 (April 1956)

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.

Correspondence relating to the membership of the bakery and textile visiting sub-committees of the Board of Governors of the Royal Technical College, Glasgow and the Royal College of Science and Technology, Glasgow.

Signed minutes of meetings of the Mining Committee of the Royal Technical College, Glasgow concerning the management of the Department of Mining.