Course Material

image shows HATII digitisation summer school examining Special Collections material

Much of the primary material held in Special Collections supports the teaching and research of Glasgow University. Digital resource pages of such material are being created wherever possible in conjunction with teaching staff: these act as useful starting points for users wishing to understand the extent and nature of material available in the Department, and, in the cases where digitisation of entire items is possible, provide surrogates which can vastly increase access to the originals without further exposure to damage.

If you would like to see a page describing Special Collections resources related to your course, please contact Julie Gardham (ext. 3791).

Academic staff are also welcome to use material from Special Collections for group teaching, and a fully equipped seminar room is available within the Department, situated on Level 12 next to the reading room. Teaching should usually be given in the seminar room which should be booked well in advance. Contact the Reading Room (ext. 6767) to make a booking.

Archaeology

• Digitised texts Report & Supplementary Report on South Side Park (Glasgow: 1856 & 57) Sp Coll Mu22-c.4

Celtic Studies

•   See Anja Gunderloch's Catalogue of Gaelic Manuscripts in Glasgow University

Classics

• Classical Fragments: Greek Papyrus fragments from Oxyrhyncus

Economic & Social History

• Glasgow broadside ballads: cheap print and popular song culture in nineteenth-century Scotland
• The History of crime and punishment in Britain, 1790-1870
• Scottish tourism and leisure in the nineteenth century
• Honours option course: Poverty and Progress: Britain 1885-1914

English Language

• Honours Options: Reading the Past: from script to print (Paper 4b) and Late Medieval English Literature (Paper 13) 
       1.  Manuscripts in Special Collections
       2.  Digitised texts: Chaucer's Roman of the Rose manuscript and Thynne's 1532 collected edition of Chaucer's works
   

English Literature

• M.Phil in Romanticism and the Forms of Modernity
• Late Medieval English Literature
• Victorian Resources in Special Collections

French

• Honours Option: Bande Dessinée
• Honours Option: Emblem Books 
  see also the French emblems at Glasgow website for 27 emblem books digitised in their entirety
       1.  Resources by lecture
       2.  Digitised text Aneau Imagination poetique (Lyon: 1552) SM 97
       3.  Digitised text Montenay Emblemes ou devises chrestiennes (Lyon: 1571) SM 771
       4.  Digitised text Paradin Devises Héroïques (Lyon: 1557) SM 816
• Honours Option: Stagecraft & Witchcraft

History

See Research Resources in the University of Glasgow for Adam Smith and the Enlightenment

• Honours Dissertations: how to find primary source material in Special Collections
• Honours option: Women and Feminist Movements in Europe, 1789-1945: primary source material for women's suffrage.
• M.Phil/Diploma in History & Computing: Scottish criminal records in Special Collections
• M.Phil in History: Core Course A: Approaches to History: George Wyndham The development of the state
• M.Phil in History: Option in History of Medicine
       1. Digitised text: Dr. William Cullen A Letter to Lord Cathcart, President of the Board of Police in Scotland, Concerning the Recovery of Persons Drowned and Seemingly Dead 
       2. Digitised text: Dr. William Hunter On the uncertainty of the signs of murder in the case of bastard children
• Victorian Resources in Special Collections

History of Art

• Decorative Arts and Design History
• The Gothic Revival and Design (History of Art MLitt programmes)
• Graphic Design & visual culture in Europe 1890-1945: private press books
• The Domestic Landscape 1860-1960
• Design, Politics and Commerce: International Exhibitions 1851-1951
• Victorian Resources in Special Collections

School of Law

• Honours Option: History of Scots Law: transcription of The Practiques of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington (MS Gen 1333)

Music

• Honours Option: The Music of Scotland

Scottish Centre for War Studies

• How to find primary resources relating to World War I in Special Collections

Slavonic Studies

• introduction to primary resources in Slavonic Studies

Theatre, Film & Television Studies

• Junior Honours: Twentieth-century Scottish Theatre

Victorian Studies (cross departmental)

• Victorian Resources in Special Collections

Course material index page last updated 15 October 2009