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Teacher Training in Aberdeen

The history of teacher training in Aberdeen and in the north of Scotland is told through the archives of the ‘Aberdeen Colleges of Education’. The ‘Aberdeen Colleges of Education’ is actually a colloquial term for the many different institutions that provided teacher training between 1874 and 2001

The Quatercentenary celebrations, 1906

On the 27th of September 1906, the City of Aberdeen welcomed King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to open the new buildings at Marischal College, amidst some of the most extravagant celebrations and expressions of civic pride ever demonstrated in Aberdeen

85 Years of Student Show

The annual Student Show is an integral part of the Aberdeen Students’ Charities Campaign, helping to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for local charities. It is the only show of its kind in the UK, and regularly performs to large audiences during its residence at His Majesty’s Theatre in April each year

20th Century Radicalism

Special Collections hold a wealth of twentieth century material relating to social and political movements for democracy, equality and justice. Papers, literature and correspondence survive to chart the activities of local political parties, trades unions, pressure groups and activists

Happy Holidays!

Holidays in Scotland by rail in the first half of the twentieth century illustrated by material from the O’Dell Transport Collection. On the early death in 1966 of Andrew O’Dell, Professor of Geography in the University from 1951, his private collection of transport material came to the University Library

Acts of Union

This exhibition explores the political, religious and economic factors that helped create the new kingdom of Great Britain, a process which was far from inevitable and not particularly popular, north or south of the border. Union between Scotland and England was proposed on numerous occasions, and in various forms, throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The Night of all Witches

Hallow-e’een. [Shortened from All-hallow-even]. The eve of All-Hallows or All-Saints, the last night of October. In the old Celtic Calendar the year began on 1st November, so that the evening of October was ‘old-year’s night’, the night of all the witches, which the Church transformed into the ‘Eve of all Saints’.

Taking the Plunge

Sea-bathing became particularly fashionable in the eighteenth century, and remained so for many decades afterwards. For those who could afford it, going to coastal resorts, such as Scarborough, Brighton, Weymouth or Peterhead, to sea-bathe and to take the waters became part of the social and seasonal round.

William MacGillivray

William MacGillivray, (1796 – 1852), was a former Professor at Marischal College, as well as one of the 19th century’s most outstanding ornithologists and natural historians. A native of Aberdeen, MacGillivray spent his early childhood on Harris. He returned to the City to continue his education and graduated MA from King’s College in 1815

Puerperal Fever

First described by the Greek physician Hippocrates, puerperal fever was a major cause of death amongst women in the immediate aftermath of childbirth. Many doctors felt it to be incurable and the mortality rate was incredibly high, in epidemic years it may have been as high as twenty percent of women who delivered.

Bound to Sell: Victorian Commercial Book-Bindings

By the 1840s, publishers routinely used cloth for the covers of those works that they decided to sell in an already bound state. Many factors had led to this development, which took place against a growing market for reading matter, and a tendency towards the production of larger edition sizes.

Thomas Gordon of Cairness

The philhellene, Major-General Thomas Gordon of Cairness and Buthlaw, (1788–1841), had a colourful career as a continental soldier and, subsequently, as a historian of great repute. Following schooling at Eton and Oxford, Gordon embarked on a military career and served in British, Russian and Hanoverian armies.

Mathematics for Practical Men

The study of mathematical sciences underwent something of a revival in the first half of the nineteenth century when the subject became recognised as essential to an education and understanding of the world.

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Gordon of Cluny: the working life of an Aberdeenshire Castle

Cluny Castle was acquired by John Gordon, I of Cluny, after the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion – it had previously belonged to another branch of the Gordon family which was not closely related to the new purchaser.

The Watt Collection

In 1991, Dr Harold Watt (1921-2003) presented to Aberdeen University a substantial proportion of his collection of books on typographical design, illustration and printing practices. Dr Watt graduated in classics from Aberdeen University in 1942.

The Chapman Collection

John B. Chapman (1875 – 1949) graduated from Aberdeen University in 1897, and subsequently made his career at County Hall, London, as HM Inspector of Schools.

Professor Patrick Copland

Professor Patrick Copland (1748 -1822) was a natural philosopher of national repute, whose connection with Marischal College spanned 60 years. Copland was born in Fintray, Aberdeenshire, and graduated AM from Marischal in 1766

Carolus Linnæus, Species Plantarum

Swedish biologist Carl von Linné, (1707-1778), also known by the Latinised form of his name Carolus Linnæus, is best remembered as a botanist and the founder of modern systems of naming living organisms.

Baron Napier of Magdala

Robert Cornelis Napier, first Baron Napier of Magdala (1810-1890), had a distinguished career as an officer in the Indian army and contributed to a number of important engineering projects throughout India, building roads, cantonments, public buildings and frontier defences.

Bookplates and Ex Libris

From earliest times, people have indicated their ownership of texts with a variety of marks. The ex-libris, or bookplate, emerged along with printing in Germany in the late 15th century.

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