This collection covers records from the Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science (1907-1975) becoming the Queen's College, Glasgow (1975-1993). The records have been arranged into 19 sections covering the following activity or format:
Audio recording of the interview, Susan McGinlay.WMA, 1:07:11 hours, 64MB
Transcript of the interview, Susan.pdf, 17 pages, 271KB
This item is an interview with Susan McGinlay recorded by Dr Gillian Murray on 11 May 2016 as part of the CommonHealth history project. It is the oral history of Susan McGinlay's involvement in community work and community business from the early 1980s to 2010s. Click on the 'Download audio' link next to the icon above or on the URL link in the metadata section below. This will take you to the Glasgow Caledonian University edShare page where the items can be previewed and downloaded.
Susan McGinlay had been an active member of her community organising play schemes for children. She got involved in the community business movement in the mid 1980s, setting up an industrial cleaning company, Kleencare, with 4 other women in 1985. It became one of the longest running businesses within Possil Community Business Ltd. In 1987 she became the first commercial manager of Possil Community Business Ltd and remained an active board member of the Allander Group.
Colour photograph representing Southside Housing Association, a registered social landlord providing over 2000 homes in Glasgow's southside. They aim to ensure their homes are popular and affordable, placing a strong emphasis on community engagement and participation.
The Archive holds all the surviving documentation relating to the STUC and its business from 1897 onwards. The scope of the collection covers the business of the STUC and its annual Congress , the General Council and its Committees, surviving General Secretary files, STUC publications, non STUC publications relating to STUC business, surviving Trades Councils documentation and a vast selection of issue and subject based folders relating to the work of the STUC. The collection also holds ephemera, posters and photographs. The collection is still being worked on and the scope and content will be updated to reflect this work.
Parliamentary Committee minutes 1897-1923 becoming General Council and its Committees minutes and papers 1923 onwards (moving wall with past 7 years kept at STUC offices in Glasgow)
STUC annual reports 1897-1989 (last annual report published 1989)
STUC correspondence relating to Congress 1964 to 1980
General Council reports 1957 onwards (incomplete)
Congress proceedings on audio tapes 1989-2003
Annual Congress programmes 1990 onwards
President's address to Congress 1999 onwards
Women’s Advisory Committee (WAC) minutes and papers 1926 onwards
Youth Advisory Committee (YAC) minutes and papers 1938 onwards
Disputes Committee minutes and papers 1970s to 1980s
Economic Committee minutes and papers 1950s to 1980s
Whisky Industry Sub Committee 1970s to 1980s
Transport Sub Committee 1970s to 1980s
Energy Sub Committee 1970s to 1980s
Education Committee minutes and papers 1960s to 1980s -Entertainment and Arts Sub Committee 1970s to 1980s including material on Mayfest, Scottish Opera, SNO, Scottish Theatre Trust, GFT, Scottish Ballet, Arts Council, and the Glasgow International Jazz Festival
General Purposes Committee and Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes and papers 1970s to 1980s
Health and Social Services Committee minutes and papers 1980s
Organisation Committee minutes and papers 1926 to 1968
James Jack (General Secretary 1963 to 1965) papers and correspondence 1960s to 1970s
James Milne (General Secretary 1976 to 1986) papers and correspondence 1970s to 1980s
Speeches of Campbell Christie (General Secretary 1986 to 1998) 1985 to 1998
John Henry (Depute General Secretary 1978 to 1988) papers and correspondence 1970s to 1980s
STUC issues: issues and subject folders relating to STUC business 1960s to 1980s (alphabetic list available in reading room)
Further subject papers relating to: electricity privatisation 1987-1988
Scotch Whisky Combined Committee 1977-1981
Work Time Debate Seminar 1996
Petrochemical industry, Grangemouth 1984-1985
Petrochemicals: Highlands and Islands Development Board Committee 1979
Gay and lesbian issues 1993-1995
STUC Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Forum 1995
Trade Union delegation for Central America 1985
Robert Smillie Fund 1933-1944
Devolution campaign 1970-1984
NHS privatisation 1984-1990
Anti-racist march and rally 1999 onwards
STUC constitution 1988-1989
STUC publications 1897 onwards including annual reports, GC reports, Congress programmes, subject specific publications, STUC published histories, circulars 1970s to 1980s, press statements 1970s to 1980s and circulars and statements from 2006 onwards
Scottish TUC Bulletin 1950-1971
Scottish Trade Union Review 1978 onwards (incomplete)
Non STUC publications 1912 to 1990 including TUC reports 1912-1987 (incomplete), TUC General Council reports 1940-1985 (incomplete), Labour Party annual reports 1914-1976 (incomplete), ICTU [Irish Congress of Trade Unions] annual reports 1952-1958 (incomplete), ICTU 1963-1981 (incomplete). Labour Research (publication) 1960-1990; Trades Councils minutes, correspondence and papers 1880s to 1980s (incomplete)
‘Scottish Community Enterprise Investment Fund plc : prospectus’, with key facts about the fund and community enterprise in Scotland, the SCEIF board of directors and administrative and legal details, August 1989
‘Scottish Community Enterprise Investment Fund plc : an opportunity to invest in Scotland’s greatest asset...the people’, fold-out promotional pamphlet to accompany the prospectus.1989
16 colour photographs of the SCEIF launch event in Glasgow City Chambers, October 1989
This material has yet to be formally sort and listed but the following record series have been identified. Further series will be identified in the future.
Governing Council, College Council and Governing Body minutes and papers 1971-1993
Prospectuses 1971-1993
Academic Board minutes and papers 1971-1982
Formal opening documentation 1972
Graduation and awards ceremony programmes 1972-1993
The majority of material in the collection relates to the Glasgow branch of the RSSPCC, including the predecessor organisation, the Glasgow Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Publications produced by the RSSPCC head office and the Scottish Children's League of Pity (junior branch of the RSSPCC) are also included, as well as a small assortment of records from other branches.
Financial records of the Glasgow branch, 1906-1972
Legacy papers, 1950-1978
Complaint books Glasgow, 1953-1965
Glasgow branch minutes, 1889-1963
Glasgow District Finance Committee minutes, 1903-1971
Records of the Ladies Auxiliary Committee Glasgow, 1888-1971
Records of the Scottish Children’s League including: annual reports, 1904-1993, City Sparrows 1899-1979, minutes of the Glasgow branch 1898-1978 and ephemera
Legislative acts and reports on subjects affecting children, 1885-1938
Papers relating to the Non-Accidental Injury to Children Committees for Strathkelvin, Lanark and Dumbarton, 1975-1981
Institutional records including printed copies of the Royal Charter and the Constitution, 1920-1975
Staff records, Dunbartonshire and Glasgow, 1964-1971
Records relating to staff training and development, 1898, 1936, and 1970-1978
Assorted promotional material, newsletters, and other publications, 1984-2003
Glasgow building fund appeal records, 1965-1967, and annual appeal records, 1975
Glasgow property records, including architectural plans, 1963-1965;
Crookston Home records including minute books, cash books and visitor books, 1903-1925
Organisational histories, including a recorded reminiscence of a former RSSPCC Inspector, 1990
Annual Convention 1986, programme for convention held in Edinburgh, 24-25 October 1986
Annual Convention 1987, 'A decade of community enterprise’, programme for convention held at Maryhill Community Central Hall, Glasgow, 23-24 October 1987
Annual Convention 88, programme for convention held at Raploch, Stirling, 28-29 October 1988
Annual Report 1987/88
Annual Report 1989
Annual Report 1990
Convention programmes include reports, adverts, programme, accounts and list of members. Annual reports include the CBS report, accounts, list of members, reports for two trading subsidiary companies, Community Economic Development and the Scottish Community Enterprise Investment Fund and supporting adverts.
