We've created a new guide to our #SportingHeritage collections which cover everything from Olympic finals to keep fit classes:
collections.stir.ac.uk/archive-coll...
@isstirling.bsky.social @sportingheritage.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
Photograph of black and white cover of magazine, featuring index of contents and a photograph of the exterior of the asylum and game of bowls taking place on the bowling green.
Photograph of a stack of six volumes of staff records. Some volumes are labelled 'Wages Book' on the spine.
March's Archives Hub feature explores the #Stirling District Asylum Archive, one of the most used collections at
@unistirarchives.bsky.social! blog.archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/2026/03/02/s... #ScottishArchives #HospitalArchives
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...
Journals, reports and magazines produced by the Musician's Union held in its archive at the University of Stirling.
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.
Scotland & Medicine are hosting a special online event on Tuesday 10th March at 3pm which will bring together anyone interested in medical collections to hear an introduction to the holdings of 15 museums, archives and libraries across Scotland.
Free to attend!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotland-m...
The posters brought a splash of sporting colour wherever they were displayed! #SportingHeritage #Glasgow2026 #CommonwealthGames
Photograph showing promotional material for the 1970 Commonwealth Games (Douglas Brown Collection, Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive, University of Stirling Archives).
Photograph showing promotional material for the 1970 Commonwealth Games (Douglas Brown Collection, Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive, University of Stirling Archives).
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
Hi @willsh.bsky.social Unfortunately these lectures don't form part of the archive - would be nice to have a recording though!
collections.stir.ac.uk/archive-coll...
@asls.org.uk
Richard Harris in Lindsay Anderson's adaptation of Gogol's Diary of a Madman, Royal Court Theatre, London, March 1963 (ref. LA/3/10/4/4).
"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
Flags of competing nations at the 1982 Commonwealth Games, Brisbane. Australia (ref. CG/2/12/2/24).
On another grey, dreich day it was nice to work with some colourful content when cataloguing some new additions to our #SportingHeritage collections. #FunWithFlags
And what's a celebration if no-one is dressed like a Tunnock's Teacake? 😂❤️
Team Scotland supporter's mascot from the 1970 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games (ref. WC/2/9/3/35).
Yay! We're delighted to be part of a great new project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and led by The Ballast Trust to support Scotland's sporting heritage. Find out more at: www.surveyingofficer.co.uk/sssh/
Transcription Tuesday everyone!
Can you palaeography lovers help us out with this word? It should be a duration (of illness) - usually along the lines of 3 months, 4 years, instantaneous etc. Could be 'unknown' but we have to squint reeeaalllyy hard! What do you think?
#TranscriptionTuesday
Cover of the Alloa Burns Club celebration dinner, 25 January 1929.
Menu for the Alloa Burns Club celebration dinner, 25 January 1929.
Looking for inspiration for your #BurnsNight supper? How about some Mixtie Maxties & Trimlin' Tams? Our #Alloa Burns Club digitisation project documented over a century of supper menus and club activities:
archives.stir.ac.uk/2023/03/23/m...
@scotsarchives.bsky.social @arascot.bsky.social
Looking forward to reading about how Stirling's story fits into the wider picture of post-war higher education expansion.
Delighted to announce the launch of my book today 'Universities and the Purpose of Higher Education: Expansion and Development in Post-war Britain'! www.routledge.com/Universities... : a short thread: 1/5
Congratulations to the team of volunteers at @unistirarchives.bsky.social who have documented the main alphabetical series of #film #stills from the Edinburgh Film Guild #Photographic #Archive. An important addition to #Stirling University's holdings relating to #Scottish film #heritage.
Volunteering with impact: read about our @edinburghfg.bsky.social photographic archive project in our 2025 report:
libguides.stir.ac.uk/ld.php?conte...
A Bluesky challenge!
We've got so many great heritage/GLAM accounts here now, that some are flying under the radar
From national organisations to niche collections, these active accounts are all (at time of posting) under 500 followers-lowest at 9-how many can we get over 500?
go.bsky.app/U16Nwsw
Our last blogpost of 2025 rounds up another busy year in the archives. Highlights included creative histories, volunteering with impact and a lot of digitisation...
archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/12/19/2...
Our last blogpost of 2025 rounds up another busy year in the archives. Highlights included creative histories, volunteering with impact and a lot of digitisation...
archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/12/19/2...
Its time for our annual end-of-year review. Highlights include creative histories, volunteering with impact & a lot of digitisation...
archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/12/19/2...
@artatstirling.bsky.social @isstirling.bsky.social @scotsarchives.bsky.social @arascot.bsky.social #CultureOnStirCampus
Delighted to be invited to contribute to this event on Wed 10 Dec where we will talk about our work with @aberlourcharity.bsky.social documenting the historical importance and continuing value of their archives:
www.ica.org/event/intern...
We have a new guide to archive sources for #co-operative #history on the website. You can download the 35-page PDF here
sslh.org.uk/2025/12/07/s...
The #UofStirling computer, February 1974
#EYADigital #CultureOnStirCampus
Wed 10 December
International Council on Archives webinar on human rights in university and research institution archives
We'll be talking about our work with @aberlourcharity.bsky.social documenting the historical importance and continuing value of their archives
www.ica.org/event/intern...
Day One of our #Aberlour150 advent calendar 🎄❄️🎁🎅⛄
Today we’re kicking off with a throwback to where we started 150 years ago, in our founding village of Aberlour and our old Aberlour orphanage 🗝️
More on this fabulous film in our wonderful #LindsayAnderson Archive. "See Your City" in a unique and unforgettable way!
A colour photograph of the site of the future University of Stirling taken from the top of the Wallace Monument, Stirling, c 1960, ref. AE/P/1.
A pre university view of the campus from the lofty heights of the Wallace Monument c 1960.
#CampusInColour #StirScanStudio #CultureOnStirCampus #BridgeOfAllan #UofStirling
