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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)

Published articles; speeches; notes on history of mathematics department and professorial staff.

Minutes; record of proceedings; lists of attendees at annual proceedings; research papers and accompanying photographs and other material; programmes; exhibition catalogues; correspondence; tape recordings; menus.

Minutes and papers of Council meetings, including Chairman’s Committee and National Executive, 1957-1968, 1970-1984; Conditions of Service Committee correspondence and papers, 1959-1986; Regulations Committee minutes and papers, 1960-1966, 1971, 1975; Education Committee correspondence, reports and policy documents, 1964-1983; membership lists and lists of branch officials; general correspondence, 1958-1968, 1980-1983; correspondence and programmes for annual conferences, 1962-1974; newsletters and bulletins, 1961-1965, 1971-1975, 1979-1980, 1984-1985; ballot papers on the future of ALCES, 1974; liaison with trade unions and other organisations; branch meeting minutes.

Student notes from second, third and fourth year Naval Architecture course at Royal Technical College, Glasgow.

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.

Electronic engineering student notebook; electrical engineering student notebooks; engineering design student notebook; advanced mathematics student notebook.

Prize book awarded to McCance's father; documents on the Royal College/Glasgow University discussions and the progress to university status; photographs, including official openings of Chesters House, Bearsden and Students' Union Building, and of royal visits by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and HRH Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon; obituaries and biographical information.

Minutes of committee meetings and general meetings; rules; newsletters; circulars to staff; information and services handbook; correspondence and papers on government of Royal College of Science and Technology; paper on merger of Royal College and Scottish College of Commerce; papers relating to submissions to University Grants Committee; papers from symposium on the modern university.

Lesson notebook, 1951-1952; photocopy of teaching practice diary, 1951-1954; photographs.

Photographs.

14 needlework samples; 1 knitting sample; booklet entitled 'Jordanhill Training College Needlework Department', c 1950s.

Election literature including campaign leaflets, manifestos and publications produced by political parties for Scottish constituencies. Primarily covering all elections since the first Scottish Parliament election in 1999, there is also a selection of earlier donated material present.

20 volumes of lecture notes made by Alexander Porkess whilst a student at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow. The notebooks cover various subjects including mathematics, heat engines and natural philosophy. Many of the notebooks contain photographs, graphs and diagrams. There is also a copy of the thesis presented by Porkess for the Associateship of the Royal Technical College, August 1952. Also a bundle of notes, mainly examination questions and algebra, c. 1950s.

Most of the collection comprises research notes and papers and article reprints arising from Professor Stenlake’s research into the design and synthesis of the drug atracurium besylate, the first short acting and readily reversible skeletal muscle relaxant for use in surgery. There are also papers relating to Stenlake’s teaching, lectures and administrative responsibilities as well as to his education and awards. There are also photographs of Stenlake and other University of Strathclyde staff.