115-865: The Hunterian is a complex of museums located in and operated by the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland . It is the oldest museum in Scotland. It covers the Hunterian Museum , the Hunterian Art Gallery , the Mackintosh House, the Zoology Museum and the Anatomy Museum, which are all located in various buildings on the main campus of the university in the west end of Glasgow. In 1783, William Hunter ,
230-577: A baronetcy , and in June 1924 he became Sir Alexander Grant of Forres. In 1928 he donated a further £100,000 – making his combined donations the equivalent of around £6 million today – for a new library building to be constructed on George IV Bridge , replacing the Victorian-period Sheriff Court, which moved to the Royal Mile . Government funding was secured which matched Grant's donation. Work on
345-534: A 500-seat lecture theatre. Built at a cost of £90.6 million, it opened in April 2021 and is named for James McCune Smith , the first African American to earn a degree in medicine and a University of Glasgow alumnus. A further investment of over £900 million is being made across the Gilmorehill campus, focused mainly on redeveloping the 5.7-hectare (14-acre) site between University Avenue and Dumbarton Road that
460-702: A Highland landscape, a croft house, a poppy-covered war memorial, and a Native American Tipi. The physical set is made from cardboard, however it has been digitised in 3D by the NLS, meaning it can be viewed online via the Cheviot 3D section on the NLS website while it is on loan. The library holds various items of early modern and restoration English drama, mainly within the Bute Collection. Notable items that can be found here include early editions of William Shakespeare's plays, namely A Midsummer Night's Dream , The Taming of
575-632: A Scottish anatomist and physician who studied at the University of Glasgow , died in London . His will stipulated that his substantial and varied collections should be donated to the University of Glasgow. Hunter, writing to William Cullen, stated that they were "to be well and carefully packed up and safely conveyed to Glasgow and delivered to the Principal and Faculty of the College of Glasgow to whom I give and bequeath
690-464: A building known as the "Auld Pedagogy". The university was given 13 acres (5.3 ha) of land belonging to the Black Friars (Dominicans) on High Street by Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1563. By the late 17th century its building centred on two courtyards surrounded by walled gardens, with a clock tower, which was one of the notable features of Glasgow's skyline—reaching 140 feet (43 m) in height —and
805-405: A chapel adapted from the church of the former Dominican (Blackfriars) friary. Remnants of this Scottish Renaissance building, mainly parts of the main façade, were transferred to the Gilmorehill campus and renamed as the "Pearce Lodge", after Sir William Pearce , the shipbuilding magnate who funded its preservation. The Lion and Unicorn Staircase was also transferred from the old college site and
920-643: A comprehensive collection of the publications of the UK Parliament from the 19th century to the present day. The Library holds copies of the House of Lords Journal, which dates from 1509 to the present day and is the Library's oldest currently published periodical. The journal records the proceedings of the House of Lords. The Library, in partnership with ProQuest and the House of Lords digitised 3,000 volumes of material related to
1035-499: A decisive victory. The current office holder is Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah , who was installed in the position on the 11th of April 2024, after winning 80% of the vote and while under investigation by the University. The governing body of the university is the University Court , which is responsible for contractual matters, employing staff, and all other matters relating to finance and administration. The Court takes decisions about
1150-455: A decorated west front facing the High Street, called the 'Nova Erectio', or New Building. This foundation is widely considered to have been one of the finest 17th-century buildings in Scotland. Decorated fragments from it, including a complete exterior stairway, were rescued and built into its 19th-century replacement. In Sir Walter Scott 's best-selling 1817 novel Rob Roy , set at the time of
1265-419: A display which explored Scotland's contribution to the progress of Enlightenment, and 'The International Style of Muriel Spark ' (8 December 2017 – 13 May 2018), a celebration of her life and literary achievements. As the library is a not a lending library, this building is one of several venues where the public are able to visit and consult primary materials in the reading rooms. There are two reading rooms in
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#17328452335761380-526: A far grander scale, the original High Street campus's twin- quadrangle layout, and may have been inspired by Ypres ' late-medieval cloth hall ; Gilmorehill, in turn, inspired the design of the Clocktower complex of buildings for the new University of Otago in New Zealand. In 1879, Gilbert Scott's son, Oldrid , completed this original vision by building an open undercroft forming two quadrangles, above which
1495-479: A giant-sized pop-up book. The Library acquired the set in 2009, although it is currently on loan to V&A Dundee and is on display at the museum until 2043 as part of a 25-year loan agreement with the NLS. Measuring over 4 metres in length when opened and over 2 metres tall, the Cheviot set is the largest book at the National Library of Scotland. It consists of 5 different scenes painted by Byrne, including:
1610-541: A large number of 19th and 20th century maps, many of them Swiss , French , and Italian – the earliest of these is a 1783 map of the Kingdom of Sardinia. Additions to the collection continue on an ad hoc basis. The Graham Brown Research Fellowship was initiated in 2018 and supports a three-month period of research for fellows to explore any aspect of mountaineering, including literature, history, and environment. The first National Library of Scotland Graham Brown Research Fellow
1725-455: A large number of classified NSA documents to several media outlets—was elected. In 2017, Aamer Anwar a Scottish lawyer and former student of the university was elected rector until 2020 when rector elections had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . On April 21, 2021, Rita Rae, Lady Rae a Scottish lawyer, judge and former Senator of the College of Justice was appointed Rector after
1840-632: A large number of the works of James McNeill Whistler and the majority of the watercolours of Charles Rennie Mackintosh . The Hunterian Art Gallery reopened in September 2012 after a refurbishment, with an exhibition dedicated to Rembrandt , Rembrandt and the Passion . The gallery has held three major Mackintosh exhibitions: Architecture (2014), Travel Sketches (2015) and Unbuilt (2018), as well as two based on their Whistler collection Watercolours (2013) and Art and Legacy (2021). The Mackintosh House
1955-516: A large part of them. The Alps and the Himalayas receive the most coverage throughout the collections, and the discovery and exploration of the Arctic and Antarctica are heavily featured also. The Graham Brown collection was acquired by the library in 1961 via the bequest of physiologist Professor Thomas Graham Brown . There are over 20,000 items within the collection, including written works related to
2070-548: A partnership with Glasgow City Council Glasgow Life and the National Library of Scotland . Most of the zoology collections, including those of William Hunter, are displayed in a separate museum within the Graham Kerr building, which also houses most of the university's zoological research and teaching. This is also open to the general public. The insect collections are particularly important and extensive, and have been
2185-992: A specific remit. They, along with the Clerk of Senate, play a major role in the day-to-day management of the university. All students at the university are eligible to vote in the election of the Rector (officially styled "Lord Rector"), who holds office for a three-year term and chairs the University Court. In the past, this position has been a largely honorary and ceremonial one, and has been held by political figures including William Gladstone , Benjamin Disraeli , Bonar Law , Robert Peel , Raymond Poincaré , Arthur Balfour , Charles Kennedy and 1970s union activist Jimmy Reid , and latterly by celebrities such as TV presenters Arthur Montford and Johnny Ball , musician Pat Kane , and actors Richard Wilson , Ross Kemp and Greg Hemphill . In 2004, for
2300-685: A surgeon, also founded a museum; the London museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England , also known as the Hunterian Museum, is based on his collection. The museum displays thousands of anatomical specimens, including the Evelyn tables and the skeleton of the "Irish giant" Charles Byrne , and many surgical instruments. It underwent a major refurbishment in 2003 and 2004, creating a new "crystal" gallery of steel and glass. Both brothers were celebrated in
2415-926: A total of approximately 3,500 students. These include the Murano Street Student Village in Maryhill; Wolfson halls on the Garscube Estate; Queen Margaret halls, in Kelvinside ; Cairncross House and Kelvinhaugh Gate, in Yorkhill . In recent years, Dalrymple House and Horslethill halls in Dowanhill , Reith halls in North Kelvinside and the Maclay halls in Park Circus (near Kelvingrove Park ), have closed and been sold, as
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#17328452335762530-527: Is a public research university in Glasgow , Scotland . Founded by papal bull in 1451 [ O.S. 1450], it is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities . Along with the universities of St Andrews , Aberdeen , and Edinburgh , the university was part of the Scottish Enlightenment during the 18th century. Glasgow
2645-596: Is a collection of over 46,000 moving images (films, television shows, and short video clips). The Library acquired the collection as the Scottish Screen Archive in 2007, though it was renamed in 2015. Over 2,600 items from the collection have been put online and are freely available to the public for viewing in the venue at Kelvin Hall. Lord Hope in November 2014 donated legal and personal papers including opinions covering
2760-506: Is a modern concrete building, part of the gallery-library complex. It stands on the site of one of two rows of terraced houses which were once sections of Hillhead Street and Southpark Avenue, demolished in the 1960s to make room for the university's expansion across the residential crown of Gilmorehill. One of the buildings lost, 78 Southpark Avenue, was (between 1906 and 1914) the home of Glasgow architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (although Mackintosh himself did not design it) and his wife,
2875-598: Is an alumna of the university, with a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Medical Law and Medical Ethics. She is the first woman to hold the office in the university. Day-to-day management of the university is undertaken by the University Principal (who is also Vice-Chancellor ). The current principal is Sir Anton Muscatelli who replaced Sir Muir Russell in October 2009. There are also several Vice-Principals, each with
2990-462: Is his grand Bute Hall (used for examinations and graduation ceremonies), named after its donor, John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute . Oldrid also later added a spire to the building's signature gothic bell tower in 1887, bringing it to a total height of some 85 metres (278 ft). The local Bishopbriggs blond sandstone cladding and Gothic design of the building's exterior belie the modernity of its Victorian construction; Scott's building
3105-531: Is now attached to the Main Building. John Anderson , while professor of natural philosophy at the university, and with some opposition from his colleagues, pioneered vocational education for working men and women during the Industrial Revolution . To continue this work in his will, he founded Anderson's College , which was associated with the university before merging with other institutions to become
3220-590: Is one of the country's National Collections . It is one of the largest libraries in the United Kingdom. As well as a public programme of exhibitions, events, workshops, and tours, the National Library of Scotland has reading rooms where visitors can access the collections. It is the legal deposit library of Scotland and is a member of Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL). There are over 24 million items held at
3335-508: Is one of the most extensive cartographic archives available for research in a public institution. The Library holds roughly 375 military maps and plans that were prepared by the Board of Ordnance in the 18th century for government troops during the Jacobite period. Within the collection are maps of routes, fortifications, and Highland towns. The items in the collections were donated to the library in
3450-406: Is open between 7 a.m. and 2 a.m., 361 days of the year. In addition to the main library, subject libraries exist for Medicine, Chemistry, Dental Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Education, Law, History of Art, and the faculty of Social Sciences, which are held in branch libraries around the campus. In 2007, a state-of-the-art section to house the library's collection of historic photographs
3565-579: Is operated jointly by the University of Glasgow, the University of the West of Scotland and the Open University . It offers a modular undergraduate curriculum, leading to one of a small number of liberal arts degrees, as well as providing the region's only access to postgraduate study. As well as these teaching campuses the university has halls of residence in and around the North-West of the city, accommodating
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3680-524: Is structured upon what was then a cutting-edge riveted iron frame construction, supporting a lightweight wooden-beam roof. The building also forms the second-largest example of Gothic revival architecture in Britain, after the Palace of Westminster . An illustration of the Main Building previously featured on the reverse side of £100 notes issued by Clydesdale Bank . The university's Hunterian Museum resides in
3795-467: Is the largest university in Scotland by total enrolment and, with over 15,900 postgraduates, the fifth-largest in the United Kingdom by postgraduate enrolment. In common with universities of the pre-modern era, Glasgow originally educated students primarily from wealthy backgrounds; however, it became a pioneer in British higher education in the 19th century by also providing for the needs of students from
3910-825: Is the Garscube Estate in Bearsden , housing the Veterinary School , Observatory , ship model basin and much of the university's sports facilities, the Dental School in the city center, the section of Mental Health and Well Being at Gartnavel Royal Hospital on Great Western Road, the Teaching and Learning Centre at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and the Crichton Campus in Dumfries (operated jointly by
4025-623: Is the Reverend Stuart MacQuarrie, and the university appoints honorary chaplains of other denominations. The University Library , situated on Hillhead Street opposite the Main Building, is one of the oldest and largest libraries in Europe. Situated over 12 floors, it hosts more than three million books and journals, and provides electronic resources, including over 51,900 electronic journals. It also houses sections for periodicals, microfilms, special collections and rare materials. The Library
4140-541: The 10:10 project in 2010 in a bid to reduce their carbon footprint . One year later they announced that they had reduced their carbon emissions according to 10:10's criteria by 18%. On 16 May 2012 the National Library of Scotland Act 2012 (asp 3) was passed by the Scottish Parliament , and received royal assent on 21 June 2012. In April 2013 the library recruited a Wikipedian in residence , becoming
4255-642: The Academic Senate (academic affairs), and the General Council (advisory). There is also a clear separation between governance and executive administration. The university's constitution, academic regulations, and appointments are described in the university calendar, while other aspects of its story and constitution are detailed in a separate "history" document. The university's three most significant officials are its chancellor, principal, and rector, whose rights and responsibilities are largely derived from
4370-636: The Anniesland area of the city. The university also has use of half of the East Boathouse situated at Glasgow Green on the River Clyde where Glasgow University Boat Club train. In common with the other ancient universities of Scotland the university's constitution is laid out in the Universities (Scotland) Acts. These Acts create a tripartite structure of bodies: the University Court (governing body),
4485-497: The Clan Sinclair , which date back to 1488. On 26 February 2009, areas of the building were flooded after a water main burst on the 12th floor. Firefighters were called and the leaking water was stopped within ten minutes. A number of items were lightly damaged. The last letter written by Mary Queen of Scots made a rare public appearance to mark the opening of a new library visitor centre in September 2009. The library joined
4600-591: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival . The general public are able (and encouraged) to view these items at the Special Collections Reading Room in the library's main building, a space where people can consult rare books, manuscripts, and music. Theatre of the 20th century is also well represented on film and can be viewed by the public at the library's Moving Image Archive. The Cheviot, the Stag, and
4715-755: The First Folio of Shakespeare , the Glenriddell Manuscripts , and the last letter written by Mary Queen of Scots . It has the largest collection of Scottish Gaelic material of any library in the world. The Library's main public building is in Edinburgh city centre on George IV Bridge , between the Old Town and the university quarter. This building is Category A listed . Exhibitions are frequently held here, with past examples including 'Northern Lights: The Scottish Enlightenment ' (21 June 2019 – 18 April 2020),
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4830-419: The House of John Murray , a British publisher known for publishing the likes of Jane Austen , Herman Melville , Charles Darwin, and Lord Byron . Also included within the collection is the Archive of Smith, Elder and Company , as well as the Charles Elliot papers. The Library continues to receive additions to the archive on an ad hoc basis. There are over 4,200 bound volumes (40,000 individual reports) within
4945-443: The Industrial Revolution , and its expansion in the High Street was constrained. The area around the university declined as well-off residents moved westwards with the expansion of the city and overcrowding of the immediate area by less well-off residents. It was this rapid slumming of the area that was a chief catalyst of the university's migration westward. In 1870, the university moved to a (then greenfield ) site on Gilmorehill in
5060-405: The Jacobite rising of 1715 , the lead character fights a duel in the New Building grounds before the contest is broken up by Rob Roy MacGregor . Over the following centuries, the university's size and scope continued to expand. In 1757 it built the Macfarlane Observatory and later Scotland's first public museum, the Hunterian . It was a center of the Scottish Enlightenment and subsequently of
5175-461: The Maps Reading Room, purposed for visitors to consult maps, atlases, gazetteers, and cartographic reference books. The newest addition to the Library is the 2016 Kelvin Hall public centre in Glasgow , purposed to provide access to the library's digital and moving collections, namely the Moving Image Archive . Like at the library's main building, exhibits are held here too, though on a smaller scale. Originally, Scotland's national deposit library
5290-399: The National Library of Scotland , the transformed Kelvin Hall was brought into new public use including in Phase I the Hunterian Collections and Study Centre. The Mathematics Building, on University Way adjacent to the Boyd Orr Building, was demolished in 2017 to make way for a new 'Learning Hub' intended to provide individual and group study spaces for more than 2,500 students, as well as
5405-493: The Rankine Building at the east end of University Avenue (opened 1970), the multipurpose Adam Smith Building (opened 1967) on the crest of the hill above University Gardens, and the new Queen Margaret Union building (opened 1968) on the University Gardens site previously occupied by the University Observatory. These were joined by others in various modernist styles; both the Library and Boyd Orr Building (opened 1968 and 1972 respectively) were configured as tower blocks, as
5520-453: The Universities (Scotland) Act 1858 . The Chancellor is the titular head of the university and President of the General Council . They award all degrees, although this duty is generally carried out by the Vice-Chancellor, appointed by them. The current Chancellor is Dame Katherine Grainger , a former rower who is Britain's most decorated female Olympian, the current chair of UK Sport , and former Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University . She
5635-438: The University of Strathclyde in 1964. In 1973, Delphine Parrott became its first female professor, as Gardiner Professor of Immunology. In October 2014, the university court voted for the university to become the first academic institution in Europe to divest from the fossil fuel industry . The university is currently spread over a few campuses. The main one is the Gilmorehill campus, in Hillhead . As well as this there
5750-672: The Veterinary School in Bearsden , and the Crichton Campus in Dumfries . The alumni of the University of Glasgow include some of the major figures of modern history, including James Wilson , a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence , 3 Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom ( William Lamb , Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Bonar Law ), 3 Scottish First Ministers ( Humza Yousaf , Nicola Sturgeon and Donald Dewar ), economist Adam Smith , philosopher Francis Hutcheson , engineer James Watt , physicist Lord Kelvin , surgeon Joseph Lister along with 4 Nobel Prize laureates (in total 8 Nobel Prize winners are affiliated with
5865-415: The 1920s, the upkeep of collection was too much for the Advocates Library and, with the aid of a £100,000 endowment from Alexander Grant , managing director of McVitie & Price , the library's contents were presented to the nation. The National Library of Scotland was formally constituted by the National Library of Scotland Act 1925 ( 15 & 16 Geo. 5 . c. 73). Grant's support was recognised with
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#17328452335765980-591: The 1930s by a government department descended from the Board. The Stevenson Collection is a collection of 19th and 20th century manuscript and printed maps, drawings, and building plans from the Stevenson family, a Scottish engineering family specialising in building lighthouses, harbours, and other civil engineering works. The collection mostly covers their work in the United Kingdom, although there are some works concerning Japan and New Zealand, and several other countries. The National Library of Scotland holds materials related to (primarily) Scottish theatre, though many of
6095-431: The 1960s following publication of the Robbins Report led the university to build numerous modern buildings across Hillhead in a development zone, originally comprising mainly residential tenements, that had been designated on the north side of University Avenue in 1945. Several of these new buildings were in the brutalist style; the Mathematics Building at the west end of University Avenue (opened 1968, demolished 2017),
6210-406: The 405 members of the university community who gave their lives in the Second World War. Most of the windows are the work of Douglas Strachan , although some have been added over the years, including those on the South Wall, created by Alan Younger. Daily services are held in the chapel during term-time, as well as seasonal events. Before Christmas, there is a Service of Nine Lessons and Carols on
6325-471: The Allen Thomson Building and his pathological preparations at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow. Housed in large halls in George Gilbert Scott 's University buildings on Gilmorehill, the museum features extensive displays relating to William Hunter and his collections, Roman Scotland (especially the Antonine Wall ), geology, ethnography, ancient Egypt, scientific instruments, coins and medals, and much more. The museum contains many donated collections, such as
6440-419: The Begg Collection of fossils donated by James Livingstone Begg in the 1940s. The museum contains a high number of scientific instruments owned by or created by Lord Kelvin and other 19th century instrument makers. In September 2016, the new Hunterian Collections and Study Centre, embracing the full range and activities of the museum and the art gallery, opened in the transformed Kelvin Hall in Phase 1 of
6555-405: The Black, Black Oil is a Scottish play by playwright John McGrath . The play tells the history of economic change and exploitation in the Scottish Highlands , from the Highland Clearances all the way through to the contemporary oil boom at the time of its initial production. The stage set for the play, designed and painted by Scottish artist John Byrne , was made in 1973 and is in the form of
6670-423: The George IV building, and a third Multimedia Room for consulting non-written materials: There is also a more modern building, constructed in the 1980s, in a residential area on the south side of the town centre, on Causewayside. This was built to accommodate some of the specialist collections, such as maps and science collections, and to provide extra large-scale storage. There is one reading room located here also;
6785-472: The Graham Kerr Building, the art collections in The Hunterian Art Gallery, and Hunter's library containing some 10,000 printed books and 650 manuscripts, finally received in 1807, in Glasgow University Library . Lady Shep-en-hor 's coffin and possible mummy were donated to the museum in 1820 by Joshua Heywood. The university's Librarian Professor Lockhart Muirhead became the first Keeper of the Hunterian Museum in 1823. Hunter's anatomical collections are housed in
6900-420: The India Papers collection. The archive consists of reports, photographs, government correspondence, and various other miscellaneous material related to the British Raj . The collection is rare and is the largest of its kind in the UK behind the India Office Records at the British Library . It contains items related to medicine, travel, the arts, human rights, and military history, as well as many others. One of
7015-426: The Librarian and National Librarian. The National Library of Scotland has many different collections in varying sizes, though some of the larger ones (with in-depth pages of their own) are listed here: The John Murray Archive is one of the larger collections at the National Library of Scotland, consisting of over one million items. It contains various documents, letters, manuscripts, and business papers all related to
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#17328452335767130-425: The Library as a result of the 1925 National Library of Scotland Act, and the public may consult the material in the reading rooms at the library's main building. Also held at the library are various business publications of Scottish Parliament, available in print to consult physically at the library are those dated up to September 2015. Publications dated after September 2015 can be viewed digitally. The Library holds
7245-412: The Library in various formats including books, annotated manuscripts and first-drafts, postcards, photographs, and newspapers. The library is also home to Scotland's Moving Image Archive , a collection of over 46,000 videos and films. Notable items amongst the collection include copies of the Gutenberg Bible , Charles Darwin's letter with which he submitted the manuscript of On the Origin of Species ,
7360-412: The Main Building, and the related Hunterian Gallery is housed in buildings adjacent to the University Library. The latter includes "The Mackintosh House", a rebuilt terraced house designed by, and furnished after, architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh . Even these enlarged premises could not contain the expanding university, which quickly spread across much of Gilmorehill. The 1930s saw the construction of
7475-423: The National Library of Scotland include early editions several Scottish plays, printed before 1736, that would have been performed like this. Also held at the NLS are a small number of early editions of The Gentle Shepherd (1725) by Scottish poet Allan Ramsay which was turned into a ballad opera and became a favourite of the Scottish stage. There is a large collection of Edinburgh Theatre Royal playbills at
7590-406: The Parliamentary Commissioners of Visitation on 28 August 1690, that he had seen the Bull at the Scots College in Paris, together with the many charters granted to the university by the monarchs of Scotland from James II to Mary, Queen of Scots . The university enquired of these documents in 1738 but was informed by Thomas Innes and the superiors of the Scots College that the original records of
7705-432: The Scottish Parliament, though the NLS does also receive materials from overseas, including the United States and the Commonwealth. The India Papers are a prime example of a substantial collection of official publications. The Library holds various documents and publications relating to Scottish Parliament including the proceedings from the first surviving Act of Parliament in 1235. All Acts of Parliament are deposited at
7820-482: The Shrew , Hamlet , and Othello . The Bute Collection hosts other Elizabethan , Jacobean and Caroline dramatists as well, namely George Chapman , Thomas Dekker (including an intact copy of the Converted Curtezan of 1604), John Lyly , Philip Massinger , Thomas Middleton , and John Webster . Although Scotland's first public theatre did not open until 1736, plays were performed at alternative venues like schools, courts, and local festivals. The collections at
7935-424: The University of Glasgow, the University of the West of Scotland and the Open University ). The Imaging Centre of Excellence (ICE) was opened at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital on 29 March 2017, including a Clinical Innovation Zone spanning 11,000 square feet (1,000 m ) of collaboration space for researchers and industry. The university's initial accommodation including Glasgow University Library
8050-458: The University) and numerous Olympic gold medallists, including the current chancellor, Dame Katherine Grainger . The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451 by a charter or papal bull from Pope Nicholas V , at the suggestion of King James II , giving Bishop William Turnbull , a graduate of the University of St Andrews , permission to add a university to the city's Cathedral. It is the second-oldest university in Scotland after St Andrews and
8165-410: The West End of the city, around three miles (five kilometres) west of its previous location, enclosed by a large meander of the River Kelvin . The original site on the High Street was sold to the City of Glasgow Union Railway and replaced by the college goods yard . The new-build campus was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic revival style. The largest of these buildings echoed, on
8280-563: The affairs of 19th-century Canada , Italy , and British India. The Patrick Leigh Fermor Archive is a collection of different items related to Patrick 'Paddy' Leigh Fermor , a British travel writer, adventurer, and veteran. The Archive was purchased by the Library in 2012 from Fermor's estate, using funds from the John R. Murray charitable trust. There are over 10,000 items in the collection including photographs, sketches, films, war reports, books, manuscripts, and postcards. The Moving Image Archive
8395-407: The artist, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh . The university rebuilt the form of the house (using modern materials) approximately 100 metres from the site of the original. Due to its displacement, the former front door is now located in the façade of the gallery, some distance above the ground over Hillhead Street. The Mackintosh House comprises the principal interiors of the original house (including
8510-527: The award-winning round Reading Room (it is now a category-A listed building ) and an aggressive program of house purchases, in which the university (fearing the surrounding district of Hillhead was running out of suitable building land) acquired several terraces of Victorian houses and joined them together internally. The departments of Psychology, Computing Science, and most of the Arts Faculty continue to be housed in these terraces. More buildings were built to
8625-607: The bigger sections, the Medical History of British India, has been digitised and is available to the public online. One of the highlights from the collection is the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission report. The Minto Papers are over 2,000 documents relating to the Elliot family, a British family of aristocrats founded in the 17th century. This collection is a valuable source of study for British politics, Scottish history, and
8740-470: The collection is the second edition of Purchas his Pilgrimage (1614). The National Library of Scotland has an extensive collection of official material as a result of the 1710 Copyright Act and also because of the library's status the library of the Faculty of Advocates. The official publications at the library consist largely of documents relating to Westminster Parliament and other UK government bodies, like
8855-495: The collection that were published before the middle of the 1700s are concerned with the history and topography of Switzerland , whilst the works from later in the century are more related to the natural history, geography and geology of the country. Also included within the Lloyd collection are guidebooks on Switzerland and illustrated journals of Alpine tours. The Wordie collection consists of works on Arctic and Antarctic exploration and
8970-420: The core of the collections, but have grown considerably, and now include some of the most important collections of work by artists such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh and James McNeill Whistler , as well as superb geological, zoological, anatomical, archaeological, ethnographic and scientific instrument collections. The museum first opened in 1807 in a specially constructed building off the High Street, adjoining
9085-585: The deployment of resources as well as formulating strategic plans for the university. The Court is chaired by the Rector , who is elected by all the matriculated students at the university. The University Secretary is the Head of University Services and assists the Principal in day-to-day management. The current University Secretary is David Duncan. National Library of Scotland The National Library of Scotland ( NLS ; Scottish Gaelic : Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba ; Scots : Naitional Leebrar o Scotland )
9200-414: The development value of such property increased. The Stevenson Building on Gilmorehill opened in 1961 and provides students with the use of a fitness suite, squash courts, sauna, and six-lane, 25-metre swimming pool. The university also has a large sports complex on the Garscube Estate, besides their Wolfson Halls and Vet School. This is a new facility, replacing the previous Westerlands sports ground in
9315-459: The dining room, studio-drawing room and bedroom), largely replicating the room layout of the old end-of-terrace building. It features the meticulously reassembled interiors from the Mackintoshes' home, including items of original furniture, fitments and decorations. The exhibits strikingly demonstrate Charles Rennie Mackintosh's concept of the room as a work of art. William Hunter's brother John ,
9430-488: The examples of the pictorial posters of the later part of the 19th century, featuring scenes from plays or portraits of the leading actors and actresses. The NLS has obtained three substantial collections which make it an important hub for the study of mountains, mountaineering, and the polar regions. Climbing is the central focus of the library's mountaineering collections, though materials related to ecology, hillwalking, mountains in art and literature, and geology also make up
9545-527: The expanding student population, a new refectory —known as the Hub—was opened adjacent to the library in 1966, and the Glasgow University Union building at the eastern end of University Avenue was extended in 1965. In October 2001 the century-old Bower Building (previously home to the university's botany department) was gutted by fire. The interior and roof of the building were largely destroyed, though
9660-533: The first institution in the Scotland to create such a post. In 2016, the library recruited a Gaelic Wikipedian in residence. In September 2016 the library opened a new centre at the refurbished Kelvin Hall , Glasgow, in partnership with Glasgow Life and the University of Glasgow , providing access to the library's digital and moving image collections. The head of the library is the Chief Executive and National Librarian. The role has previously been known as
9775-610: The first time in its history, the university was left without a Rector as no nominations were received. When the elections were run in December, Mordechai Vanunu was chosen for the post, even though he was unable to attend due to restrictions placed upon him by the Israeli government. In 2014, Edward Snowden , an American computer specialist, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, and former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor—who came to international attention when he disclosed
9890-641: The foundation of the university were not to be found. If they had not been lost by this time, they certainly went astray during the French Revolution when the Scots College was under threat. Its records and valuables were moved for safe-keeping out of the city of Paris. The Bull remains the authority by which the university awards degrees. Teaching at the university began in the Chapter House of Glasgow Cathedral , subsequently moving to nearby Rottenrow , in
10005-461: The fourth-oldest in the English-speaking world. The universities of St Andrews, Glasgow, and Aberdeen were ecclesiastical foundations, while Edinburgh was a civic foundation. As one of the ancient universities of the United Kingdom, Glasgow is one of only eight institutions to award undergraduate master's degrees in certain disciplines. The university has been without its original Bull since
10120-493: The growing urban and commercial middle class . Glasgow University served all of these students by preparing them for professions: law, medicine, civil service, teaching, and the church. It also trained smaller but growing numbers for careers in science and engineering. Glasgow has the fifth-largest endowment of any university in the UK and the annual income of the institution for 2022–23 was £944.2 million of which £220.7 million
10235-483: The history of Alpine climbing, books on Arctic exploration, mountaineering journals, over 250 press cuttings, postcards, manuscripts, and photographs. Much of the material within the collection is personal; there are Brown's climbing diary notebooks, papers related to his time as an editor of the Alpine Journal, correspondence, and his book The First Ascent of Mont Blanc (1957). The Graham Brown Collection also contains
10350-488: The individual notable items are found across different collections. It has a wide range of theatre materials, including scripts and manuscripts, business papers, sets, theatre programmes, and photographs. Many of the theatre-related items from the 20th and 21st century are held by the Library. These include plays and unpublished manuscripts; music hall and pantomime material; posters, playbills and programmes; reviews and news cuttings; theatre company archives; and material from
10465-402: The last Sunday of term, and a Watchnight service on Christmas Eve. Graduates, students, members of staff, and the children of members of staff are entitled to be married in the chapel, which is also used for baptisms and funerals. Civil marriages and civil partnerships may be blessed in the chapel, although under UK law may not be performed there. The current chaplain of the university
10580-433: The library, advertising performances and events from 1807 to 1851. The library also holds a few texts of stage adaptations of the novels of Sir Walter Scott . As well as this, the NLS has books from the lawyer and author Sir Theodore Martin , which mainly relate to his wife, actress Helena Faucit . The Weir Collection is one of the biggest resources at the National Library of Scotland for 19th century materials related to
10695-658: The main façade remained intact. After a £10.8 million refit, the building re-opened in November 2004. The Wolfson Medical School Building , with its award-winning glass-fronted atrium, opened in 2002, and in 2003, the St Andrews Building was opened, housing what is now the School of Education. It is sited a short walk from Gilmorehill, in the Woodlands area of the city on the site of the former Queens College, which had in turn been bought by Glasgow Caledonian University , from whom
10810-638: The mid-sixteenth century. In 1560, during the political unrest accompanying the Scottish Reformation , the then chancellor, Archbishop James Beaton , a supporter of the Marian cause , fled to France. He took with him, for safe-keeping, many of the archives and valuables of the cathedral and the university, including the Mace and the Bull. Although the Mace was sent back in 1590, the archives were not. Principal James Fall told
10925-551: The museum moved too. In 1870, the Hunterian collections were transferred to the university's present site and assigned halls in Sir George Gilbert Scott 's neo-Gothic building. At first, the entire collection was housed together and displayed in the packed conditions common in museums of that time, but significant sections were later moved away to other parts of the university. The Zoological collections are now housed within
11040-461: The new building was started in 1938, interrupted by World War II , and completed in 1956. The architect was Reginald Fairlie ; the architectural sculptor was Hew Lorimer . The coat of arms above the entrance was sculpted by Scott Sutherland and the roundels above the muses on the front facade by Elizabeth Dempster . By the 1970s, room for the growing collections was running out, and other premises were required. The Causewayside Building opened in
11155-402: The original campus of the university. For this, Hunter ensured funds for its building and design by architect William Stark through his three trustees: his nephew Matthew Baillie; his Scottish lawyer Robert Barclay of Capelrig House ; and John Millar, cousin of William Cullen . When the university moved west to its new site at Gilmorehill (to escape crowding and pollution in the city centre),
11270-620: The period of his active legal career. The National Library of Scotland holds over two million cartographic items, making it the largest collection of maps in Scotland and one of the largest in the world. There are several separate collections of maps within the library's holdings, namely the Bartholomew Archive and the Graham Brown Collection (see below). At the library there are maps relating to many different kinds of landscapes, such as estates, counties, railways, maps which show
11385-591: The same to be kept and preserved by them and their successors for ever... in such sort, way, manner and form as ... shall seem most fit and most conducive to the improvement of the students of the said University of Glasgow." As well as Hunter's medical collections, which arose from his own work, Hunter collected widely, often assisted by his many royal and aristocratic patrons. He and his agents scoured Europe for coins, minerals, paintings and prints, ethnographic materials, books and manuscripts, as well as insects and other biological specimens. Hunter's eclectic bequest forms
11500-430: The south-side of Edinburgh in two phases, in 1989 and in 1995, at a total cost of almost £50 million, providing additional working space and storage facilities. Since 1999, the library has been funded by the Scottish Parliament . It remains one of six legal deposit libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and is overseen by a board of trustees. The library also holds many ancient family manuscripts including those of
11615-512: The subject of exhibitions of note in the 2010s. The Gallery is now housed in a modern, custom-built facility that is part of the extensive Glasgow University Library complex, designed by William Whitfield . This displays the university's extensive art collection, and features an outdoor sculpture garden. The bas relief aluminium doors to the Hunterian Gallery were designed by sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi . The gallery's collection includes
11730-420: The theatre. The collection is an Archive of over 500 19th-century playbills, posters, programmes, photographs and newspaper cuttings, presented to the library in 1970 by Kathleen Weir, who inherited them from her father, James J. Weir. One of the earliest playbills in the collection advertises a performance of Rob Roy on 11 March 1829 with Charles Mackay playing Bailie Nicol Jarvie . Particularly attractive are
11845-545: The town of their birth, East Kilbride , at the small Hunter House Museum , later closed due to budget cuts. 55°52′19″N 4°17′19″W / 55.87194°N 4.28861°W / 55.87194; -4.28861 [REDACTED] List of Scottish artists University of Glasgow Dentistry Divinity Engineering Law Medicine Nursing Science Social Sciences Veterinary Medicine The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals ; Scottish Gaelic : Oilthigh Ghlaschu )
11960-512: The trenches of World War I, and alpine areas. The collections include: The Bartholomew Archive is a notable map collection that was gifted to the Library in 1995 by the Bartholomew family in memory of Scottish cartographer John Bartholomew (1890–1962). The archive provides information about the Edinburgh-based firm of map engravers, printers, and publishers, John Bartholomew and Son Ltd. It
12075-491: The university acquired the site. It replaced the St Andrews Campus in Bearsden . The university also procured the former Hillhead Congregational Church, converting it into a lecture theatre in 2005. The Sir Alwyn Williams building, designed by Reiach and Hall, was completed at Lilybank Terrace in 2007, housing the School of Computing Science. In September 2016, in partnership with Glasgow City Council , Glasgow Life , and
12190-498: The university's relocation to Hillhead , again proved problematic when more real estate was required. The school of veterinary medicine, which was founded in 1862, moved to a new campus in the leafy surrounds of Garscube Estate, around two miles (3 km) west of the main campus, in 1954. The university later moved its sports ground and associated facilities to Garscube and also built student halls of residence in both Garscube and Maryhill . The expected growth of tertiary education in
12305-608: The west of the Main Building, developing the land between University Avenue and the River Kelvin with natural science buildings and the faculty of medicine. The medical school spread into neighboring Partick and joined with the Western Infirmary . At the eastern flank of the Main Building, the James Watt Engineering Building was completed in 1959. The growth and prosperity of the city, which had originally forced
12420-887: Was Alex Boyd FRSA , an artist, photographer, and curator. He focussed on the cultural and literary significance of mountains in Scotland. The Lloyd Archive consists primarily of books and journals on the Alps and was bequeathed by former Vice-President of the Alpine Club , Robert Wylie Lloyd . Lloyd was interested in entomology and collecting art. There are roughly 2000 items in the collection and many of them in English , although there are 300 in French, over 100 in German , 20 in Italian, and some works in Latin . Books in
12535-421: Was formed by Sir James Mann Wordie , a British explorer and scholar. The library obtained the collection in 1959, containing nearly 5000 items including books, journals, pamphlets, maps, and correspondence. The collection includes not only technical reports of scientific expeditions, and the results of polar research, but also popular accounts of travel and exploration, whale-fishing and folklore. The oldest item in
12650-578: Was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £827.4 million. It is a member of Universitas 21 , the Russell Group and the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities . The university was originally located in the city's High Street ; since 1870, its main campus has been at Gilmorehill in the City's West End . Additionally, a number of university buildings are located elsewhere, such as
12765-516: Was occupied by the Western Infirmary between 1874 and 2015. The University Chapel was constructed as a memorial to the 755 sons of the university who had died in the First World War. Designed by Sir John Burnet , it was completed in 1929 and dedicated on 4 October. Tablets on the wall behind the Communion Table list the names of those who died, while other tablets besides the stalls record
12880-571: Was opened, funded by the Wolfson Foundation. The Archives of the University of Glasgow is the central place of deposit for the records of the university, created and accumulated since its foundation in 1451. The university opened the Crichton campus in Dumfries , Dumfries and Galloway during the 1980s. It was designed to meet the needs for tertiary education in an area far from major cities and
12995-591: Was part of the complex of religious buildings in the precincts of Glasgow Cathedral . In 1460, the university received a grant of land from James, Lord Hamilton , on the east side of the High Street , immediately north of the Blackfriars Church, on which it had its home for the next four hundred years. In the mid-seventeenth century, the Hamilton Building was replaced with a very grand two-court building with
13110-663: Was the Advocates Library belonging to the Faculty of Advocates . It was opened in 1689 and gained national library status in the Copyright Act 1710 ( 8 Ann. c. 21), giving it the legal right to a copy of every book published in Great Britain . In the following centuries, the library added books and manuscripts to the collections by purchase as well as legal deposit, creating a privately-funded national library in all but name. By
13225-519: Was the Genetics Building at the very south end of the campus on Dumbarton Road (opened 1967, named for Guido Pontecorvo in 1994, demolished 2021), while the amber-brick Geology Building (opened 1980, named for John Walter Gregory in 1998, renamed for Silas Molema in 2021) was built to a low-rise design on the former site of eight terraced houses in Lilybank Gardens. To further cater to
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