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When sorting political newspaper collections (like our Tait & Watson Archive) its sometimes worth checking the sports pages. This article in the Daily Worker reports on the unusual way the #TartanArmy supported Scotland at Wembley in 1938 #SportingHeritage #PotsAndPans
All packed and ready to go, our #TeamScotland Archive Team are off to #Glasgow2026 to celebrate Scotland's #CommonwealthGames history! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-history-...
Friday afternoon listening in @unistirarchives.bsky.social All together now... #SportingHeritage #CataloguingSurprises #CommonwealthGames #ArchiveVinyl
New blogpost on some of the more unusual and unexpected items in our collections. Featuring @aberlourcharity.bsky.social @wearethemu.bsky.social #TeamScotland #CommonwealthGames archives.stir.ac.uk/2026/06/30/f...
New on the blog: The University Library, gig venue extraordinaire! archives.stir.ac.uk/2026/06/11/t... #CultureOnStirCampus @isstirling.bsky.social
✨✨ It's happening - there are only TWO days until this fantastic concert hits the University of Stirling Library! ✨✨ A note to our lovely Library users that there'll be restricted seating on Level 2 on Friday and a fair amount of (bloomin' excellent) noise from 5pm. Otherwise, Library open as usual.
Dundee election ephemera received by the Scottish Political Archive today! Thank you to everyone who donates their election ephemera to the Archive, it's such a valuable part of the collection! If you still have leaflets lying around and would like to donate them, get in touch: archives@stir.ac.uk
Still time to sign up for this webinar on Tues 18 May at 2pm introducing the new Supporting Scotland's #SportingHeritage project! www.eventbrite.com/e/supporting...
Supporting Scotland's Sporting Heritage is a great new project led by the Ballast Trust aimed at preserving & celebrating Scotland's rich sporting history. Find out more about the project (& our #SportingHeritage work) at a webinar on Tuesday 19 May: www.eventbrite.com/e/supporting...
Happy #InternationalNursesDay from us here at the NHS Forth Valley Archive! Can anyone help us date this fabulous poster from our collections?
Come and find us at the Thistles Shopping Centre this Friday, 1st May for Stirling's Culture Night! Come along and clean some 19th Century documents, print your own bookmark, make some badges, meet us and our lovely Art Collection, Macrobert, Pathfoot Press and Arts & Humanities colleagues!
Culture on Campus goes to Culture Night! Friday 1 May will be a special night in #Stirling We're joining @artatstirling.bsky.social @macrobertarts.bsky.social & the Pathfoot Press at the upcoming #Stirling Culture Night festivities! Come and see us in the Thistle Centre, Friday 1 May, 6pm - 8pm
There's nothing quite like finding something tucked inside a book, a little glimpse into a different life. Join us for a live performance of Yvonne Lyon & Boo Hewerdine's gorgeous album Things Found In Books, celebrating these glimpses Stirling Uni Library 29th May Free tickets: stir.ac.uk/ahw
Heading along to our fantastic Things Found In Books gig at the University Library on 29th May? To get us all inspired, we looked through a box of material we've found in our Special Collections books! And if you haven't got your (free) ticket yet, then what are you waiting for: stir.ac.uk/ahw
A 'colour-flower' drawn by the filmmaker/artist #NormanMcLaren in 1947. #ColourfulArchives for today's #Archive30 #CultureOnStirCampus
We're VERY excited to be hosting the fantastic Yvonne Lyon & Boo Hewerdine in the @isstirling.bsky.social library during their upcoming tour - come along to hear their amazing album live, Fri 29th May, 7pm Book your free ticket: stir.ac.uk/ahw @artatstirling.bsky.social @macrobertarts.bsky.social
Our exhibition interpretation & design students opened their fantastic #CommonwealthGames archive display with a lovely event in the library last night. Find out more on their insta page: www.instagram.com/uos_thefrien... #SportingHeritage @sportingheritage.bsky.social @artatstirling.bsky.social
Celebrating Scottish Football Fandom Talk by Stuart Roy Clarke (The Homes of Football) Thursday 9 April, 11 am, Pathfoot D3, University of Stirling Supporting Scotland's #SportingHeritage @sportingheritage.bsky.social @stuartroyclarke.bsky.social #CultureOnStirCampus
We have a interesting new donation for #ArchiveFashion today. This scarf dates back to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth - who was the II in England but I in Scotland. This rather chic sartorial protest reflects disappointment at this not being reflected in the Queen's regnal title #Archive30
... the photo is part of a set of images of architects models of the new University of Stirling buildings taken in March 1969. 2/2 #Archive30 #ArchiveBuildings
Getting into the #Archive30 spirit with our favourite #ArchiveBuildings photo from the @stir.ac.uk archive... 1/2
A blank canvas for our Exhibition Interpretation & Design students who are installing their #FriendlyGames exhibition this week. If you're on #Instagram you can follow their progress on their Insta page at: www.instagram.com/uos_thefrien... @artatstirling.bsky.social @isstirling.bsky.social
With the #SixNations returning this weekend its a good time to revisit this update from our Bill McLaren digitisation project on the beauty and value of #Rugby programmes: archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/09/19/g... #SportingHeritage #StirScanStudio
You can find out a little bit more about our fantastic new accession to the Stirling District Asylum Archive in this month's Archives Hub feature blog: blog.archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/2026/03/02/s...
The new issue of Amplify the @wearethemu.bsky.social journal has arrived! The latest addition to an unbroken record of the union's reports, journals and magazines starting with the first issue of the AMU Monthly Report published in January 1895. All part of our fabulous Musicians' Union Archive.
The posters brought a splash of sporting colour wherever they were displayed! #SportingHeritage #Glasgow2026 #CommonwealthGames
Love these photos from our #TeamScotland Archive showing examples of how some of the posters in our collection were used to promote the #CommonwealthGames in #Edinburgh in 1970 #SportingHeritage #Glasgow2026
"I am Heathcliff." Wuthering Heights has long been an inspiration for filmmakers. In 1964 Lindsay Anderson attempted to film a version starring Richard Harris. Find out more in our new blogpost: archives.stir.ac.uk/2026/02/13/i... #FilmHeritage #CultureOnStirCampus