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APRIL 23, 2020

Wyllie’s sense of humour, his mischievous persona and his insistence that art was a public rather than private matter had a subtle but enduring influence on subsequent generations of artists in Scotland. The Scottish Political Archive at the University has a photograph in its collections of a George Wyllie sculpture.

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Archives Blogs

APRIL 21, 2020

The Scottish Political Archive are collecting photographs which document the world around us at this important time. We are inviting people to send us photographs which show the impact of the coronavirus on communities all around Scotland.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Heatly’s personal papers are one of three recent additions to the University of Stirling’s Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive. It has been a source of great pride to discover, through Heatly and Carmichael, the important role that Scotland has played in the Commonwealth Games.

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Archives Blogs

APRIL 5, 2019

political connotations in support of the Labour Party such as Background. a great supporter of the Labour Party, as amongst the Political material within. regarding Hyman Shapiro’s political campaign for the Dennistoun Ward of Glasgow. a great supporter of the Labour Party, as amongst the Political material within.

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Archives Blogs

APRIL 5, 2019

Not only the tough socio-political choices but the joyous stuff too – composing a national anthem, designing the flag and naming your new country, the things that people will be proud of in the future. Karak was the mascot for the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games and one of the first donations made to our Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive.

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Archives Blogs

DECEMBER 21, 2017

During the year the University Archives was designated the permanent place of deposit for the records of NHS Forth Valley selected for permanent preservation under the Public Records (Scotland) Act. Freedom Road, an exhibition of material from the Peter Mackay Archive created by History & Politics students. University of Stirling.

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Archives Blogs

JULY 6, 2020

A particularly relaxed portrait, also by Juliet Wood (Oil on canvas, 2007), is this one of Dr Littlejohn CBE who was Chairman of the University Court, and was the first female chair in the UK of the Industrial Tribunal (Scotland). “Painted [at her] home in Bridge of Allan in the unusually sunny autumn of 2007” (Juliet Wood).

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Archive of Tomorrow : The National Library of Scotland announces funding for a project to explore new possibilities for metadata, access, and research with a Health & Misinformation web archive.

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Archives Blogs

APRIL 2, 2020

The Scottish humpty dumpty is one of the prized assets Stirling University holds in its Commonwealth Games Scotland collections. It covers all the big social and political issues of the period from a singular – but otherwise under documented perspective – that of the musician.

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CILIP

MARCH 19, 2021

financial, political and cultural ? The political and financial threats our institutions face are real. s Copyright Conference 2021. Risk aversion is the issue that Professor Melissa Terras returns to again and again when she talks about copyright. She says that circumstances ? mean institutions increasingly resort to a blanket ?no?

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

That is why we hope to enlist our partners, members and other stakeholders to come together in the months ahead to implement a sector-wide campaign of political lobbying and engagement based on our slogan ?Build Securing political buy-in isn?t Lobbying in Scotland. This work is bigger than any one organisation. Advocacy goals.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

UK watchdog says app was not clear about how data is used and it may consider ‘further regulatory action’ Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The Scottish government and NHS Scotland have been rebuked for breaching data privacy laws on a Covid vaccine status app downloaded by millions of people.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 10, 2019

The Information Commissioner’s Office confirmed on Friday morning that the SNP have referred itself for investigation after voters across Scotland received letters addressed to strangers or neighbours. Continue reading.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

which examined public records to show that dozens of cities, towns, school districts and even political campaigns across the United States got snookered into paying these scam domain invoices from a similar scam company called WebListings Inc. and to two brothers living in Scotland.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

We also took our visitors further afield to see public libraries in London, the South East, the North West and Scotland. Countries with different political and structural regimes and working cultures can seem frustrating but the differences enrich the experience and form the context in which you learn, adapt and grow.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

We have to devise legislation and have the political courage to bring the global tech giants within the compass of the rule of law. We have become accustomed to the idea that some financial institutions are too big to fail. Are we approaching a situation where these global tech giants are too big to regulate?

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Preservica

JANUARY 23, 2023

The project team discovered the majority of Ward 8's newly registered voters were born in the United States, but also found names of those who hailed from Poland, Russia, Ireland, France, Turkey, Sweden, Scotland and Switzerland. Ward 1 hailed 205 women from Canada with large numbers of East Boston women from Ireland, Scandinavia and England.

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