HGS Archives

We have lots of plans for this year so we would be really grateful if you could make a small donation to help us lift these projects off the ground. These projects will benefit both current and former pupils, as well as the wider community. Thank you! hutchesons.org/donate/

It is April next month, so that means it's time for #Archive30. Here are your themes. Have fun! Anyone is welcome to join in, just use the daily hashtag along with #Archive30. We can't wait to see what you all come up with. #Archives

It’s #SchoolArchivesDay today! Are you a former pupil? How much of the school’s history do you know? Test yourself here and we’ll post the answers later!

It’s #SchoolArchivesDay today! If you are a school archive or an archive that holds school records we’d love to see some of your collection! What’s your oldest record? Biggest? Smallest?

Today is #ScottishArchivesDay! We have been doing lots of work behind the scenes ahead of our 150th anniversary celebrations of girls’ at Hutchesons’. Please consider donating to the school archive such helping with our digitisation of our collections or donate an item!

It is Archive Club sign up day today! All pupils are welcome to come along on a Wednesday lunchtime to discover and help look after the incredible history of the school! P.S If you are a former pupil we have an archive club for you… come along on Tuesdays 10:30-12:30!

We are so grateful to our volunteers who help us so much every week in the archive (just a few of them pictured here) Thank you for all your hard work, we love having you! #VolunteersWeek

taken to a Stalag camp where he learned of his younger brother, Andrew’s, death during Operation Market Garden (he is remembered on our war memorial.) Robert returned and continued his career in banking, had three children and enjoyed golfing 2/2 #veday80thanniversary

For #VEDay we are looking at FP Robert Stirling, listed here in our Hutchesonian magazine as a POW. By VE Day all POWs had returned including Robert who then married his sweetheart Betty. After bailing out of his plane over Guernsey, walking through a land mine , he was 1/2

Former pupil Archibald Leitch features in our new school museum #HutchieHistory

Its #FoodAndDrink for today’s #Archive30! Every time we are looking through the school magazines from the 80s we always love looking at the ads and this one is one of our favourites! @irnbru #MadeInScotland

Sunday marks the 705th anniversary of the most famous national treasure in our collections: the Declaration of Arbroath, created 6 April 1320. Learn more about this fascinating document 👇 bit.ly/DOANRS

It’s day 6 of #Archive30 and it’s our favourite topic #ColourfulArchives! There is lots of colour in the archive, from items made by the school to items made by our pupils in class! Our girls summer dresses were very colourful, you could choose blue, pink, lilac, green or beige!

It’s day 5 of #Archive30 and it’s #BusinessArchives We are a school archive but we are also a business archive! The pupils love seeing the very large, impressive looking ledgers but we love the ones the close with a strap and buckle-data protection 1800s style!

It’s day 4 of #Archive30 and it’s #ArchiveConservation For #SchoolArchivesDay a few weeks ago we showed some pupils how to use smoke sponges to clean our records. They were fascinated by old elastic bands and what happens to them over time!

It’s day 2 of #Archive30 and it’s #ArchiveBeginnings our archive began in 1991 after an archive business survey looked at the school’s collection and highlighted its potential for the school. Since then the school has taken on a professional archivist and the archive has grown

#Archive30 starts today. Hooray 🥳 Today we would like to know about #YourArchive. Introduce yourself and maybe give us an interesting fact.

Today is day 1 of #Archive30 from @ARAScot The theme is #YourArchive so here is a peek at ours! We hold a mixed format collection of everything relating to the history of the @GlasgowAcademy Find out more on our shiny new #archives website! theglasgowacademyarchive.org.uk

It’s day 1 of #Archive30 and it’s #YourArchive and it is YOUR archive! We encourage our former pupils (and others!) to engage with the archive and the collection- if you have a question get in touch! We are the archive for Hutchesons’ Grammar School #HutchieHistory

Thanks to all of the speakers, organisers & hosts of today's @SchoolArchives1 event Very informative and always good to share experiences with colleagues in other organisations. Sorry if I haven't tagged you! @UofGlasgowASC @BallastTrust @SeharSardar4 @BusArchScot @HGSArchives