Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1893 - 1968 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
2 metres
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
The Students' Representative Council for day students of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College was formed in 1893. A separate body for evening students, the Evening Students' Representative Council, existed for many years in parallel until the two amalgamated during the 1940s.
The Students' Representative Council organised reunions of former students and social functions such as dances and published the student magazine. It mounted a successful campaign in 1953 for a new Students' Union Building, which was formally opened in John Street in May 1959. At the same time, the Students' Representative Council was renamed the Students' Association. In 1964, the Association amalgamated with the Students' Representative Council of the Scottish College of Commerce, to form the Students' Association of the University of Strathclyde.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Minutes and papers of the Council and its committees; minutes of Evening Students' Representative Council committees; financial records; social functions memorabilia; records relating to the Union building; submissions to the College, University Grants Committee and Robbins Committee on Higher Education; scarves, ties, badges; visitors' book.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Student lists are restricted in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English