Catalogues and finding aids

The Registrars

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archives

You can explore the collections of the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archives by consulting the paper catalogues and survey lists available in the Glasgow City Archives searchroom.  These list and describe the surviving clinical and administrative records of dozens of medical institutions, as well as the personal papers of a number of medical professionals, dating from the late nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century. 

 

Catalogues

Catalogues exist for the majority of our collections including, but not exclusive to:

• the official records of the City

• various local authorities

• landed families

• businesses

• organisations, societies and groups

 

You can consult these catalogues in the archives searchroom.  Summary information about many of our collections is available online on the Scottish Archive Network website.

 

Indexes

• general index

• card index by name (personal and corporate), subject and place

• building plans index

• card index of architectural plans from c.1870-1912

 

These indexes can only be accessed in the archives searchroom. 

Databases

• poor relief applications, 1851-c.1925

• police personnel records, 1826-c.1932

• church registers, baptisms and marriages, pre-1855

• valuation rolls, 1832, 1861, 1881, 1911​

• databases detailing architectural plans, 1885-1995

Special Collections

Catalogues

Glasgow Libraries Online Catalogue is the key search tool for finding published material on family history.  The catalogue includes books and pamphlets added from 1976 onwards and all Glasgow Collection material.  You can access the catalogue online via a library computer or from home. Search by author, title, keyword or under “family history” to explore the collections.

 

Micro-fiche catalogues for books and pamphlets added to The Mitchell Library, 1877-1915 and 1916-1960 (available only at The Mitchell).

 

Please ask staff for assistance to access materials acquired 1960-1976.

 

Printed indexes

• Evening Times Roll of Honour

• Monumental Inscriptions Collection

• photographs in the Glasgow Collection 1877-1915

 

Printed catalogues:

• Scottish family histories 

• Scottish Regimental History Collection

• manuscripts in The Mitchell Library

• Glasgow newspapers

• chronological list of newspapers in The Mitchell Library

• periodicals catalogue  

You can also browse folders of Glasgow illustrations such as:

• William Graham Collection

• Postcard Collection

• Portraits (mostly 19th century)​

 

Databases

The Glasgow Database: an index of references to Glasgow Collection material, including journal and newspaper articles and scrapbooks. Searchable by name, subject an​d keyword.