Want to find out more about what we hold but don't know where to start? Try our NEW collections highlights page! collections.stir.ac.uk/archive-coll... @artatstirling.bsky.social @isstirling.bsky.social #CultureOnStirCampus

✨✨ 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: [email protected]

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

Today's #Archive30 theme of #SportArchives is the perfect opportunity for us to introduce our brand new guide to our fantastic #SportingHeritage collections which have the archives of Commonwealth Games Scotland at their core. collections.stir.ac.uk/archive-coll... @sportingheritage.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

Getting into the #Archive30 spirit with our favourite #ArchiveBuildings photo from the @stir.ac.uk archive... 1/2

The #Archive30 campaign starts today! These prompts are an opportunity for you to showcase your collections, staff, and service! Take part in as many themes as you want and make sure to tag @arascot.bsky.social

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

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A gifted writer of #gothic & #supernatural fiction, Dorothy K. Haynes (1918–1987) grew up in Aberlour Orphanage. In her memoir HASTE YE BACK, edited for us by Dr Craig Lamont she brings to life the residents & stories of the institution that shaped her 💙📚 asls.org.uk/publications...

Congratulations Craig! This looks like a great new research project which will bring new perspectives to our work on the amazing @aberlourcharity.bsky.social Archive. @iassl.bsky.social

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

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...

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...

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

On another grey, dreich day it was nice to work with some colourful content when cataloguing some new additions to our #SportingHeritage collections. #FunWithFlags

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

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 pre university view of the campus from the lofty heights of the Wallace Monument c 1960. #CampusInColour #StirScanStudio #CultureOnStirCampus #BridgeOfAllan #UofStirling

Poetry, politics and parkin cake in the library 😮 Wonderful creative histories event yesterday exploring the life and archives of the Scottish socialist John Maclean.