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GCU News 2005They Shall Grow Not Old13 December 2005 Scotland Street School Museum is housing an exhibition until April 2006 based around a trip school children made with WWII veterans to the Normandy battlefields. We are delighted that the D Day Flag, part of our Institutional Archive, is on display along with its fascinating story. The exhibition also includes material from Research Collection's Kevin Morrison Collection. Edwin Morgan Poem7 September 2005 Earlier this year, the Association of Directors of Social Work (whose Archive is held in the University), commissioned Edwin Morgan to write a poem for the social workers of Scotland. Aberlour Child Care Trust Archive7 July 2005 A new collection level description has now been added for this Archive. Campus Buildings and their Names29 June 2005 Do you know anything about George Moore, Charles Oakley, Hamish Wood, William Harley or Govan Mbeki? The story behind the naming of our buildings has been added to the Institutional Archive pages. D Day Flag27 June 2005 A battery flag was hurriedly made by students at the Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science and used in the D Day landings. The full story, including a photograph of the flag and route, can be seen in the description of the Anne Wallace Collection. Glasgow Caledonian Archive of the Trotskyist Tradition - Reference Library20 June 2005 A Reference Library to support this Archive has been established and will be updated when new items are purchased or gifted. Upper Clyde Shipbuilders: The Right To Work17 June 2005 The Archives have recently taken deposit from Govan Initiative Ltd, the 30th anniversary exhibition housed in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow in November 2001. This impressive exhibition was created to commemorate the world famous UCS work-in in 1971. We already hold other records relating to UCS in the STUC Archive and the Communist Party of Great Britain: Scottish Committee Archive. Watch this space for further details. New Accession: Anti Apartheid News7 June 2005 To supplement the Anti Apartheid Movement in Scotland Archive, we have purchased a run of the Anti Apartheid News: the newspaper of the Anti Apartheid Movement. The run dates from April 1982 to November 1988. New Accession: Papers of Robert Climie3 May 2005 A commemorative gong presented by the STUC in 1914, two personal letters from Ramsay MacDonald and an obituary makes up this interesting deposit. It was gifted by Robert’s grandson and fits well with the STUC Archive. Robert Climie was a member of the STUC’s Parliamentary Committee (1910–1918 and 1920-1923), holding the position of Secretary to the Committee in 1914. His nominating body was Ayrshire Trades Council. Watch this space for a fuller description of the deposit including biographical material relating to Robert. Last Updated:
26 August, 2008
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