Scotland’s Music and Dance: Songs and Musicians This is the second post about music and dance in Scotland. Here, we look at some examples of Scottish songs, as well as eminent musicians, especially musical families, and people …Continue reading →

Repository Fringe 2018 Venue: The Royal Society of Edinburgh Dates: 2-3 July 2018 Registration: is now closed Repository Fringe has now finished for 2018. The presentations have been deposited in – and are …Continue reading →

Scotland’s Music and Dance: Amusement, Traditions and Work If someone was to say to you “music and dance in Scotland” you would automatically think of bagpipes and ceilidh dances. But, looking at the Statistical Accounts of Scotland, you …Continue reading →

Crowdsourcing at Strathclyde University In February we held a crowdsourcing event at Strathclyde University. The event took place over two days with the help of 23 volunteers. The aim of the two days was …Continue reading →

LGBT+ History Month book display Following the success of the Main Library’s Black History Month ‘micro-exhibition’ in October, which was co-hosted with student groups LiberatEd and Project Myopia, the Library is currently displaying books for …Continue reading →

E-resources for Korean Studies With the partial financial support from the Korea Foundation, we have now subscribed to 6 Korean databases of e‐books, e‐journals, bibliographies and newspaper archives covering a wide range of subject …Continue reading →

Dealing with Data, 2017 One hundred researchers from across the University came together to present work in progress and discuss many tricky issues they face in ‘dealing with data’ at a Research Data Service …Continue reading →

Influence of Scotland in the World: Trade, Work and Travel This is the second post looking at the influence of Scotland on the world. This time we are focusing on trade between Scotland and other countries, as well as Scots …Continue reading →

Influence of Scotland on the World: Emigration The ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Statistical Accounts of Scotland are a record of what life was like in the parishes throughout Scotland, but reading through them you can see that it …Continue reading →

Conservation Volunteer In this blog post Staphany Cheng talks about her time volunteering at Strathclyde University on the Patrick Geddes collection…… Archives and Special Collections at the University of Strathclyde is home …Continue reading →