Home / Projects and Research

Category: Projects and Research

The Blog

Projects and Research

Archive Gaydar Part Two: Finding Ella

In Part One of Archive Gaydar, Archives and Collections Assistant and Researcher Helen Victoria Murray shared tips for LGBT+ research in the archive. For Part Two,

28 February 2025

Painting of two men, the painters Colquhoun and MacBryde, seated, surrounded by art studio materials.

Projects and Research

Archive Gaydar Part 1: Techniques for Researching LGBTQIA+ History

For LGBT+ History month in February, Researcher and Archives & Collections Assistant, Helen Victoria Murray shares some of tips for researching queer people in Archives

12 February 2025

Black and white photograph of group of 31 women and one man, in art studio. Photogprah is from 1890s, with clothing appropriate for this era.

Projects and Research

SGSAH AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award 2024/25: Women, Gender, and Political Engagement at The Glasgow School of Art

The School of Art History at the University of St Andrews and The Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections are pleased to offer a Collaborative

22 April 2024

Oil painting in gold-coloured frame, showing woman sitting beside a lobster creel and attaching bait to wire.

Projects and Research

Catherine Watson – A Commemoration

Judith Booth from the Coastal Communities Museum in North Berwick, East Lothian has kindly written a blog about Catherine Watson, a former GSA student who

23 February 2024

A meme by Archives and Collections Assistant Emilie Pichot using “Design for Blackie Books – Captured at Tripoli”, by Archibald Haswell Miller, which is among the items tagged as “Harmful Material”. In the image, a group of white soldiers in pith helmets appear to break up a disagreement between a group of men of Colour. In the meme, a speech bubble says 'You guys need to get out the way!' while one of the white soldiers, labelled 'Harmful Material' has a speech bubble saying 'Hey! What's the big deal?' and another figure, labelled 'Archives' says 'I think we need to work on ourselves.'

Projects and Research

Harmful Material in the Archives and Collections

Archives and Collections Assistant, Emilie Pichot discusses the important work of highlighting harmful materials in the archive. Amongst our holdings there are historical images, or

26 September 2023

Image of person engaging with Archives and Collections documentation and artwork

Projects and Research

Internship Opportunity

Do you fancy developing your research and networking skills whilst gaining object handling skills and an insight into GSA Archives and Collections? A fantastic opportunity

25 October 2022

Projects and Research

Dress to Impress: A student’s take on our Daisy McGlashan Dress

Our material provides inspiration for lots of different creative projects here at GSA Archives and Collections but we don’t often see the finished result. That

6 April 2022

Projects and Research

Researching Biographies – Part 2

This week’s post is part 2 of our “Researching Biographies” blog, following on from Part 1 here. A&C Support Assistant Kay gives an insight into

8 December 2020

Projects and Research

Researching Biographies – Part 1

In this week’s blog, A&C Support Assistant Kay covers the work she has been doing to research biographies for those who feature in our catalogue.

24 November 2020

Projects and Research

William McCance

Today former volunteer Kelly McMeekin shares some fascinating research on William McCance, one of the students she has researched as part of our World War

10 September 2018

Projects and Research

Women in Commercial Art with Karen Mailley-Watt

The Interviewed here is PhD student Karen Mailley-Watt, one half of the brilliant History Girls Frae Scotland! To find out more and keep up with

15 August 2018

Projects and Research

Cataloguing GSA: A Day in the Life of the Director- Douglas Percy Bliss

Following on from my blog post about William Oliphant Hutchison, Director of the Art School 1933-1943, this post covers the Directorship of Douglas Percy Bliss,

1 August 2018

More...

End of articles

The Blog

Archive Gaydar Part Two: Finding Ella

Archive Gaydar Part 1: Techniques for Researching LGBTQIA+ History

SGSAH AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award 2024/25: Women, Gender, and Political Engagement at The Glasgow School of Art

Catherine Watson – A Commemoration

Harmful Material in the Archives and Collections

Internship Opportunity

Dress to Impress: A student’s take on our Daisy McGlashan Dress

Researching Biographies – Part 2

Researching Biographies – Part 1

William McCance

Women in Commercial Art with Karen Mailley-Watt

Cataloguing GSA: A Day in the Life of the Director- Douglas Percy Bliss

ABOUT

BROWSE

EXPLORE

CONNECT WITH US