James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was a major figure in 19th century printmaking and created 490 etchings. Over 9500 impressions of these prints have been located and investigated during the project, which completes a series of catalogues raisonnés of Whistler's oeuvre. Find out more

Bess of Hardwick's Letters

Bess of Hardwick's Letters brings together, for the first time, the remarkable letters written to and from Bess of Hardwick (c.1521/2 or 1527-1608), one of Elizabethan England's most famous figures. Find out more

Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus

The Metaphor Map of English shows the metaphorical links which have been identified between different areas of meaning. These links can be from the Anglo-Saxon period right up to the present day so the map covers 1300 years of the English language. Find out more

The Berwickshire Place-Name Resource

The resource includes historical research for all Berwickshire place-names on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger map, including more than 1,600 place-names and 7,000 historical forms presented via a series of interactive maps. Find out more

TheGlasgowStory

As told by some of Scotland's best writers, and illustrated with thousands of images from the collections of the city's world-famous libraries, museums and universities. From football to fashions, Auchenshuggle to Yoker, you'll find it all here. Find out more

Mackintosh Architecture: Context, Making and Meaning

The project provides a richly-illustrated Catalogue of all known architectural projects by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, including over 1200 drawings by Mackintosh and the practice, analytical and contextual essays, a timeline and glossary. Find out more

The Historical Thesaurus of English

The University of Glasgow’s Historical Thesaurus of English is a unique resource charting the development of meaning in the huge and varied vocabulary of English. It consists of almost every recorded word in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, all arranged into detailed hierarchies of meaning. Find out more

Curious Travellers

The project explores Romantic-period accounts of journeys into Wales and Scotland with a focus on the writings of the Flintshire naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant (1726-1798), whose published Tours of both countries did so much to awaken public interest in the ‘peripheries’ of Britain. Find out more

Scots Syntax Atlas

The Scots Syntax Atlas presents the results of over 100,000+ acceptability judgments from over 500 speakers on over 250 morphosyntactic phenomena. The Atlas also contains a text-to-sound aligned corpus of spoken data totalling 275 hours and over 3 million words. Find out more

People of Medieval Scotland 1093-1371

A database of all known people of Scotland between 1093 and 1314 mentioned in over 8600 contemporary documents. It is also being extended to 1371 to include all those lands, peoples and relationships mentioned in royal charters between 1314 and 1371. Find out more

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International Exhibitions: 1851-1938

A 'visual library' of images and text from nine major international exhibitions between 1851 and 1938

Catalogue entry for the STUC Souvenir Brochure from the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, 1938

This web resource presents a 'visual library' of images and text, and was designed primarily to support teaching and learning on the History of Art level 2 course: DESIGN POLITICS AND COMMERCE: INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS 1851-1951. The visual library can be searched either by particular exhibition, or by themes such as 'Architecture and layout', 'Empire' or 'Souvenirs' that span the entire period.

The site does not provide a comprehensive survey of each and every major exhibition of the period 1851-198. The emphasis is on Scottish exhibitions rather than some of the better-known events that are covered in the extensive secondary literature on international exhibitions. One of the aims has been to facilitate access to original artefacts and visual / documentary sources available in Glasgow, many of them within the University. You can use the resource to follow up on points raised in the lectures, prepare for the seminars, research and illustrate your essays, revise for the Visual Test and Level 2 Examination, and guide you to unpublished archival and primary resources.

While the resource is aimed primarily at students on the Design, Politics and Commerce course it is hoped that others will also make use of it. Many of the themes explored here have a bearing on material covered at other levels and on other courses within the History of Art and various History degrees.

Project website: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/internationalexhibitions/

Main contact: Juliet Kinchin

Developer: Gerard Malcolm

Start year: 2002

End year: 2004

Funded by: SCRAN

Subject area: History of Art

Keywords: Art Digital Catalogue Digitisation History

Record last updated 2020-01-23