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Research. Documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Recorded results of diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject made to discover or revise facts, theories, or applications.

Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:

Author papers, including manuscripts and typescripts, proofs, correspondence and other papers for John Murray authors., 1803-2007, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13236/1-44
Scope and Contents

Authors include Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, Lord Byron, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Austen Henry Layard, Sir Philip Magnus, Axel Munthe, Samuel Smiles, Paul Henri Sproge (also known as Fred Rebell) and Ibn al-Wardi.

Dates: 1803-2007, undated.

Case study papers on gender and inclusionary budgetary processes in Australia., 1988-1998.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13806/54
Scope and Contents

The file contains 'Women's Budget Statement 1988-89', Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Office of the Status of Women, Commonwealth of Australia (1988); and Debbie Budlender and Ronda Sharp, 'How to do a gender-sensitive budget analysis: Contemporary research and practice', Commonwealth Secretariat, Australia (1998).

Dates: 1988-1998.

Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.31
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: ‘Armourial [sic] Bearings of the Bruces’ by Major William Bruce Armstrong, 1903 (Adv.MS.15.1.25);'Results of the investigation of the settlement of English families in Scotland', [?1801] (Adv.MS.16.2.9);‘Proper names with their significations’ by David Ure, minister of Uphall, late 18th century (Adv.MS.16.2.10);Collection of material on French heraldry, in several hands of the first half of the 18th century...
Dates: 1560-1903.

Oral history interviews conducted and recorded by Neil C Rafeek and Hilary Young as part of their research for the book ‘The University Experience 1945-1975: An Oral History of the University of Strathclyde’ (2004).

 Series
Identifier: UNLS004
Scope and Contents This collection of oral history interviews with various students and members of academic and support staff at the University of Strathclyde formed part of the research material used by Callum G Brown, Arthur McIvor, and Neil C Rafeek to write a book entitled ‘The University Experience 1945-1975: An Oral History of the University of Strathclyde’. The interviewees discuss both their backgrounds and their experiences of teaching and working at the University of Strathclyde between 1945 and...
Dates: 2002-2003.

Papers and notes of Frank Roydon Richards, mostly concerning the decipherment of the Linear B script, with material concerning other cuneiform scripts.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9094/1-89
Scope and Contents

Frank Roydon Richards, rector of Glasgow Academy from 1932 to 1959, devoted much of his retirement to the study of Linear B and especially the methods used by Michael Ventris, to whose decipherment he took a sceptical attitude. For comparative purposes he also studied the methods used by the decipherers of Hittite and other cuneiform scripts. The bulk of the material consists of transcripts of texts and summaries of books and articles, with critical comments by Richards interspersed.

Dates: 1966-1975, undated.

Papers of Sir Thomas Muir on mathematics.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10068/1-5
Dates: Majority of material found within 1900-1920, 1934, undated.