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Welcome to our 'Item of the Month'. Feel free to ask us questions about the item or arrange to drop by and see it for yourself.

May 2013 - The McCance Building

McCance building, University of Strathclyde, 1964 (ref: OP/2/2/15)

Did you know that the University's McCance building was originally built to house the Library and the School of Arts and Social Studies?

April 2013 - The Anatomy of Melancholy

 Democritus Junior

Feeling blue? The Anatomy of Melancholy may cheer you up.

March 2013 - The Andersonian Museum

Did you know there was once a museum at the University? This month we take a look at a watercolour by John Alexander Gilfillan, Professor of Drawing and Painting (1830–1841) at Anderson’s Institution.

February 2013 - ‘A kiss is love in tabloid form’

Louisa Fletcher Roses are red, violets are blue . . . want a wittier way to say ‘I love you’? Read on for snippets from a trainee teacher’s autograph book of 1916 that could grace an ‘alternative’ Valentine’s Day card!

January 2013 - Robert Burns’ three formidable foes

What better way to celebrate Burns night than by showing off the University’s very own Burns letter?

2012 Items of the month

December 2012 - A Happy New Year from the Northern Looking Glass!

November 2012 - Patrick Geddes Summer Meetings

October 2012 - Bidloo's Anatomical Atlas

September 2012 - Genealogical Charts of Helen Tooker

August 2012 - The Land-Ship at the Royal College building

July 2012 - A book full of wonders

June 2012 - Women students at Anderson's Institution

May 2012 - The New Dominie

April 2012 - George Wyllie, the Whysman

March 2012 - Professor James Blyth

February 2012 - A Father's Legacy

January 2012 - Professor George Forbes

2011 Items of the month

December 2011 - Cinders goes to the ball!

October 2011 - 'Father of the Oil Industry'

September 2011 - Through the porthole

August 2011 - Back to school

July 2011 - The W.I.N.S Uniform

June 2011 - The changing face of the University Library

May 2011 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh Designs

April 2011 - Govane Marriage Contract

March 2011 - Scottish School of Bakery

February 2011 - Papers of Verity Lambert

January 2011 - Papers of William J. Ireland

2010 Items of the month

December 2010 - Entertaining the in-laws this Christmas?

November 2010 - Student Autograph Album

October 2010 - Recollections of Minnie Blair

September 2010 - John Anderson and Benjamin Franklin

August 2010 - John Anderson Gilmour's weaving notebook

July 2010 - Papers of Mary Auld

June 2010 - The Diary of Mary Pinkerton

May 2010 - Vegetius' De Re Militari

April 2010 - William Robertson's Gem Line photographs

March 2010 - The Glasgow Athenæum Calendar