Getting with the programme. On the beauty and research value of rugby programmes. A new article from our Digitisation Assistant Joel on our #CultureOnStirCamus blog: archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/09/19/g... #SportingHeritage #Rugby @sportingheritage.bsky.social @isstirling.bsky.social

We have recently uploaded 300+ magazine issues from our Aberlour Children's Charity Archive for you to browse. You can read more about the items available and how to access them on our blog: archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/09/16/a... #ExploreYourArchive #CultureOnStirCampus #AberlourArchive

Today! Alloa! 11am! #SportingHeritage @sportingheritage.bsky.social

Tales from the Ring Speirs Centre, Alloa Friday 12 September, 11am Join our resident boxing expert Ian Mackintosh for a talk on his work on our project to preserve & promote Scotland's boxing heritage: www.clacks.gov.uk/community/ev... #SportingHeritage @sportingheritage.bsky.social #Alloa #Boxing

📣How can we identify and support collections at risk? Wednesday, September 24th: 10:30am to 12:30pm GMT+1 Free Online Webinar 🔗 Reserve your place: tinyurl.com/ymh69mrz

Yesterday we hosted BBC Scotland who interviewed Prof Michael Penman about the history and legacy of Braveheart on the 30th anniversary of its European premiere at #UofStirling #CultureOnStirCampus

#OTD in 1995 Hollywood came to #UofStirling with the European premiere of Braveheart. Find out more at: realisingthevision.stir.ac.uk/2017/12/11/4... #CultureOnStirCampus

On #WorldLetterWritingDay a favourite from our #NormanMcLaren Archive collections.stir.ac.uk/collections/... #CultureOnStirCampus @artatstirling.bsky.social

A new blog post from our director, why it was started and whats next for our organisation! Link: www.sportingheritage.org.uk/content/news...

Now on display in the uni library the #Aberlour150 exhibition celebrates the work of @aberlourcharity.bsky.social As home of the wonderful #AberlourArchive we're delighted to host the exhibition (on display until 30 August). @isstirling.bsky.social @artatstirling.bsky.social

Join Hugh Dan MacLennan of the University of Edinburgh as he sheds light on the vulnerability of cherished collections. Imagine your garage housing a treasure trove of sporting memorabilia, signed shirts, vintage equipment, and cherished moments. Yet, amidst the nostalgia lies a lurking danger.

Our #CommonwealthGames mascots are delighted to welcome Finnie, the #Glasgow2026 mascot to the gang! Read more about our collection of past Games mascots on our blog: archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/07/16/t... #SportingHeritage @artatstirling.bsky.social @isstirling.bsky.social

We had the most amazing time screening 'An Unusual Period of Unspecified Length' at the @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in Prague last week! What a wonderful opportunity to talk to fascinating colleagues from all over the world about preserving and letting go of memory. #MSAPrague2025

With the news that Clyde is stepping aside to make room for a new mascot for the #Glasgow2026 Games we thought we'd run down our favourite #CommonwealthGames mascots (as seen in our fantastic #TeamScotland Archive!) archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/07/16/t... #SportingHeritage @sportingheritage.bsky.social

We're delighted to host the @aberlourcharity.bsky.social #Aberlour150 exhibition for the summer. As home of the wonderful #AberlourArchive its the perfect location. Now on display in the uni library @isstirling.bsky.social @artatstirling.bsky.social #CultureOnStirCampus

Thank you to Karl from @unistirarchives.bsky.social for a fabulous walking tour #BLA25

“The particular character of the site derives from its comparatively intimate scale in contrast with the vastly greater scale of the natural landscape which surrounds it." #BLA25 delegates can find out more about the history of the Stirling campus on our historical walking tour at 3.30pm

A fantastic @sportingheritage.bsky.social #SportAndFashion conservation surgery this morning. Lots of interesting stories and great advice! #SportingHeritage

For all you instagram users out there, you can now follow us @unistirarchives for some behind the scenes collections content!

A suitable repost for #WorldBicycleDay Wheel wanderings (MS 108) is a handwritten account of a journey across Scotland by bike in July 1893. The cyclists arrived in #Stirling on a Sunday & passed through the town quietly "the churches all being open and the pubs shut." #SportingHeritage #OnYourBike

An update on our project supporting shinty's sporting heritage: archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/05/29/s... #Camanachd #Shinty @shintycentral.bsky.social @sportingheritage.bsky.social @isstirling.bsky.social

Join our free Sport & Fashion Network Event online to help you better understand the principles of good textile care and how you can introduce them to your collection. 📅 Wed 25 June | 🕥 10:30–12:30 Book now: tinyurl.com/9zcmsa27 #SportAndFashion

Watch out tomorrow for our special 150th anniversary supplement inside @sundaypost.com which includes the many different voices of Aberlour. Staff, volunteers, young people and experts illuminate the charity’s work supporting children & families across Scotland @northernscot.co.uk

Up, up and away! Preparing some items from the wonderful @aberlourcharity.bsky.social archive for special 150th anniversary events this weekend! @scotsarchives.bsky.social @isstirling.bsky.social

Last chance to see our #CultureOnStirCampus #Stirling900 exhibition this weekend! See how Stirling is reflected in our collections at the #Macrobert until Sunday18 May. @artatstirling.bsky.social @isstirling.bsky.social

To celebrate the 50th Dumyat Hill Race taking place later today, why not have a look at some photos of the race through the years and hear a snippet of its origin story in today's blog! archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/05/06/d... #DumyatHillRace2025 #CultureOnStirCampus @isstirling.bsky.social @stir.ac.uk

We received an envelope containing these gorgeous photographs of our wonderful @stir.ac.uk campus last week. They were taken in the 80s and 90s by a then-staff member and show off campus in all the seasons! This has got to be our favourite kind of post! @isstirling.bsky.social

Delighted to be highly commended by the @britrecs.bsky.social #JanetteHarleyPrize for our article + film 'An Unusual Period of Unspecified Length' published by @uclpress.bsky.social. Have a read yourself! ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article... @isstirling.bsky.social

"I hope you will excuse my interference..." Our current exhibition of material from the #Stirling District Asylum Archive on display @isstirling.bsky.social until 9 May: archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/02/18/i... #CultureOnStirCampus @artatstirling.bsky.social

Enjoying the good weather? This advice issued to the Scottish Team at the 1962 Commonwealth Games held in Perth, Australia, warned about the dangers of too much sun. #SportingHeritage #CommonwealthGames #TeamScotland

New addition to our #ArchivesHub catalogue: Full list of papers held in our collections relating to the writer James Hogg (1779-1835), 'the Ettrick Shepherd' archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archi... @jisc.bsky.social @isstirling.bsky.social

A big thank you to everyone who visited us at Friday's #Stirling900 Culture Night at #Stirling Castle. During the evening, with your help, we uncovered more gems from the William Simpson's Asylum Archive - including this example of garden maintenance from 1869! #CultureOnStirCampus

#OTD in 2021 our #StirScanStudio arrived on campus. Today we've just completed our 4,000th scanning job! @ukri.org @isstirling.bsky.social @artatstirling.bsky.social @stir.ac.uk

Friday fun from @islaglen.bsky.social and me on @thecourier.co.uk With help from @unistirarchives.bsky.social, we followed Shearer’s Visitor’s Companion and Pictorial Guide to the sights of Stirling 1919 to find out how much the city has changed in 106 years www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle...

We're bringing the archives to tonight's #Stirling900 Culture Night event at #Stirling Castle! www.yourstirling.com/whats-on/sti... Find us in the Castle Chapel with our #CultureOnStirCampus colleagues @artatstirling.bsky.social and an awesome lineup of local cultural organisations and talent!

Read about the work of our project team digitising the archives of 'the voice of #rugby' Bill McLaren on our #CultureOnStirCampus blog: archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/03/26/d... #StirScanStudio #SportingHeritage

Our digitisation team are starting a new project this week to digitise shinty's #SportingHeritage #StirScanStudio

From schoolhouse to STV: the life and times of John Grierson Tuesday 18 March, 7.30pm #Dunblane Local History Society @unistirarchives talk on 'the father of documentary film' www.dunblane.info/component/je... @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social @leightonlibrary.bsky.social @dunblaneinfo.bsky.social

This week in 2015 our touring #HostsAndChampions exhibition began its journey in Irvine, North Ayrshire. It went on to visit 20 venues across Scotland celebrating the history of Team Scotland at the Commonwealth Games: www.stir.ac.uk/research/res... @sportingheritage.bsky.social #SportingHeritage

From schoolhouse to STV: the life and times of John Grierson Tuesday 18 March, 7.30pm #Dunblane Local History Society Join #UofStirling Archivist Karl Magee for a talk on 'the father of documentary film' www.dunblane.info/whatson2/wha... #Documentary #CultureOnStirCampus @artatstirling.bsky.social

Would telling your Covid story be enjoyable? Cathartic? Scary? Connecting? Let us know in the University of Stirling library. If it sounds REALLY exciting, you could sign up to hear more about the University's Pandemic Oral History project.. #CovidDayOfReflection

Today is the UK's Covid Day of Reflection and we wanted to hear your thoughts on the pandemic. Head along to the University Library, explore our Pandemic Oral History project and tell us your story! #COVID19 #CultureOnStirCampus #CovidDayOfReflection

#OTD in 2022 a new #UofStirling time capsule was created preserving a snapshot of life on campus. It was inspired by the original 1969 uni time capsule, rediscovered in 2019, now held in @unistirarchives.bsky.social www.stir.ac.uk/news/2022/ma...

“The particular character of the site derives from its comparatively intimate scale in contrast with the vastly greater scale of the natural landscape which surrounds it." An image from our #CultureOnStirCampus #Stirling900 exhibition with @artatstirling.bsky.social now on display in the #Macrobert

With the upcoming Covid-19 Day of Remembrance this weekend, it's certainly the week for reflecting on memories of the pandemic!

I'd also strongly recommend this article by @unistirarchives.bsky.social '‘An Unusual Period of Unspecified Length’: A Creative Oral History of the Covid-19 Pandemic'. As you work through the montages, a polyphonic sense of the period emerges #fiveyearson ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article...

In @uclpress.bsky.social Paper Trails, we published Creative Responses to the History of COVID. See the extraordinary piece from the @unistirarchives.bsky.social team (with documentary film) & the ace article by @historianhelen.bsky.social ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/3/?filt... #fiveyearson 🗃

Its #ScottishArchivesDay! Time to share one of the most Scottish of Scottish things in our collections. @arascot.bsky.social @scotsarchives.bsky.social #SportingHeritage

Join us for ASSEMBLE! On Thursday 27th February in the Crush Hall. More here: www.stir.ac.uk/events/2024-...

Last chance to see the wonderful Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth at #UofStirling Library this week! A monumental tribute to Orwell's novel consisting of 1,984 copies of 1984... hanskclausen.com/the-winston-... @isstirling.bsky.social @artatstirling.bsky.social @crispsurv.bsky.social