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Scope and Content

• Glasgow University Magazine (GUM) 1889-2003;
• Glasgow Students' Charities Week Magazine Ygorra 1922-1973.

Administrative history

The Glasgow University Magazine, known as GUM, was founded in 1889 and was published by the Glasgow University Students' Representatives Council of the University of Glasgow, Scotland. The editorial board was comprised of two representatives from each faculty of the University. It was the oldest students' publication in Scotland and its aim was of being a medium of communication for students. It soon established a reputation for the quality of both its articles and cartoons and in the late 20th century it won a variety of national awards including Best Student Journalist of the Year and Best Arts and Entertainment Writer. Famous contributors have included amongst many others: Osborne Mavor, better known as author James Bridie (1888-1951), whose cartoons and writings were particularly enjoyed by readers of the early 20th century and John Buchan(1875-1940) whose 1890s GUM articles were amongst his earliest published works before his great success in 1915 with The Thirty-Nine Steps. The Editors are students appointed by members of the Students' Representative Council Executive Committee and the General Manager and can only hold the post for one year. The Editor is then free to select an editorial team. The frequency of publication has varied over the years with twice monthly magazines in the 1920s to monthly editions in the 1960s and one per term in the 1990s. It was still published in 2003.

The Glasgow Students' Charities Appeal Committee began publishing an annual magazine Ygorra in 1922 that was sold in conjunction with the Charities Week Appeal. Glasgow University Students' Unemployment Day 1922 was a forerunner to the Glasgow Students' Charities Week and ran as an annual event until the late 1980s. The proceeds of the early charity campaigns were donated to the Lord Provost's Fund for the Unemployed and Glasgow's Infirmaries. The word "Ygorra" originates from the phrase "you've got to" in the Glasgow vernacular, and was used in the witty slogan which accompanied each year's appeal.

System of Arrangement

The material has been arranged into series as shown in the scope and content. Within series items are generally arranged chronologically.

Conditions governing access

Open

Copyright / Conditions governing reproduction

Applications for permission to quote should be sent to the Archivist.

Reproduction subject to usual conditions: educational use and condition of documents

Physical characteristics

Early copies of GUM are very fragile.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information

This material has been appraised in line with standard GB 0248 procedures

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposit : Glasgow University Magazine editor : 2000 : ACCN 1242 Deposit : Private individual : 1993 : ACCN 1993

Archival history

Held by Glasgow University Magazine and private individuals

Accruals

None expected

Other finding aids

Digital file level list available in searchroom. See source list on University clubs and societies available via the Glasgow University Archive Services homepage.

Location of originals

This material is original

Existence and location of copies

No known copies

Related material

GB 0248 DC 157 Records of Glasgow University Student Representatives Council Associated material.

Bibliography

No known publications using this material

Notes

Rules and Conventions

Description compiled in line with the following international standards: International Council on Archives, ISAD(G) Second Edition, September 1999 and National Council on Archives, Rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names

Note

Scotland is the location of all place names in the administrative/biographical history element, unless otherwise stated.

Dates(s) of Descriptions

Compiled by Virginia Russell, Archives Assistant, 08 November 2000

Revised by Emma Yan, Assistant Archivist (Cataloguing), 04 January 2008

Access Points

Subjects
Higher education
Periodicals
Student organisations
University students
Personal Names
Buchan John 1875-1940 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, novelist, historian, MP, Governor-General of Canada
Mavor Osborne 1888-1951 doctor and playwright (as James Bridie)
Corporate Names
Glasgow University Students' Representatives Council 1885-
University of Glasgow 1451-
Geographical Names
Glasgow (Scotland)

Glasgow University Magazine (1889-2003)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 1 Numbers, 1, 4-8 (1889)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 2, Numbers 1-14 (complete) (1890)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 3, Numbers 1-15 (complete) (1890-1891)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 4, Numbers 1-16 (complete) (1891-1892)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 5, Numbers 1-16 (complete) (1892-1893)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 6, Numbers 1-16 (complete) (1893-1894)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 7, Numbers 1-18 (complete) (1894-1895)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 8, Numbers 1-18 (complete) (1895-1896)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 9, Numbers 1-17 (complete) (1896-1897)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 10, Numbers 1-17 (complete) (1897-1898)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 11, Numbers 1-17 (complete) (1898-1899)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 12, Numbers 1-3, 5-18 (1899-1900)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 13, Numbers 1-18 (complete) (1900-1901)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 14, Numbers 1-18 (complete) (1901-1902)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 15, Numbers 1-18 and summer issues 1-7 (complete) (1902-1903)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 16, Numbers 1-17 and summer issues 1-6 (complete) (1903-1904)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 17, Numbers 1-17 and summer issues 1-6 (complete) and special edition for Rectorial installation (1904-1905)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 18, bound (complete) (1905-1906)

Private notes

Volume is missing

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 19, bound (complete) (1906-1907)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 20, Numbers 1-18 (complete) (1907-1908)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 21, Numbers 1-18 (complete) (1908-1909)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 22, Numbers 1-15, 17-18 (1909-1910)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 23, bound (complete) (1910-1911)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 24, bound (complete) (1911-1912)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 25, bound (complete) (1912-1913)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 26, bound (complete) (1913-1914)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 27, bound (complete) (1914-1915)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 28, Numbers 1-8 and 8a (complete) (1916-1917)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 29, Numbers 1-8 (complete) (1917-1918)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 30, Numbers 1-8 (complete) (1918-1919)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 31, Numbers 1-18 (complete) (1919-1920)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 34, bound (complete) (1922-1923)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 35, bound (complete) (1924-1925)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 36, Numbers 2-4, 8 and 10 (1925-1926)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 36, bound (complete, 2 copies) (1924-1925)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 37, Numbers 1-11 (complete) (1925-1926)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 37, bound (complete) (1925-1926)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 38, Numbers 1-2 and 4-7 (1926-1927)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 38, bound (complete) (1926-1927)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 39, Numbers 1-3 and 5-12 (1927-1928)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 39, bound (complete) (1927-1928)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 40, Numbers 1-4 and 10-12 (1928-1929)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 40, bound (complete) (1928-1929)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 41, bound (complete) (1929-1930)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 42, bound (complete) (1930-1931)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 43, bound (complete) (1931-1932)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 44, Numbers 1, 3-10, 12 (1932-1933)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 45, Numbers 1-12 (complete) (1933-1934)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 46, Numbers 1-12 (complete) (1934-1935)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 47, Numbers 1-12 (complete) (1935-1936)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 50, Number 5, jubilee volume (1938-1939)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 55 Number 4 (1944-1945)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 56, bound (1945-1946)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 57, bound (1946-1947)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 59, Number 2 (1948-1949)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 60, Number 1 (1948-1949)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 62 (bound) (1950-1951)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 63, Numbers 2-4, 6-7 (1951-1952)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 64, Numbers 1-7 (1952-1953)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 65, (bound) (1953-1954)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 66, Numbers 1-5, 7 (1954-1955)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 67, Numbers 1-9 (bound) (1955-1956)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 68, Numbers 1-7 (1956-1957)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 69, Numbers 6-7 (1957-1958)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 70, Numbers 1, 3 (1958-1959)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 71, Numbers 1-7 (1959-1960)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 72, Numbers 1, 3-8 (1960-1961)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 73, Numbers 1-8 (complete) (1961-1962)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 74, Numbers 1-2 (1962-1963)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 75, Numbers 1-7 (1963-1964)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 76, Numbers 1-5 (1964-1965)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 77, Numbers 1-3, 5 (1965-1966)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 78, Numbers 1-5 (1966-1967)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 79, Numbers 1-3 (1967-1968)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 80, Numbers 1,3 (1968-1969)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 81, Numbers 2,3 (1969-1970)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 82, Numbers 1-3 (1970-1971)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 83, Number 1 (1971-1972)

Glasgow University Magazine Volume 84, Christmas and GUM Morning Review (1972-1973)

Glasgow University Magazine December (1984-1985)

Glasgow University Magazine March (1985-1986)

Glasgow University Magazine February (1986-1987)

Glasgow University Magazine November, March (1987-1988)

Glasgow University Magazine May (complete) (1993-1994)

Glasgow University Magazine December, March (1994-1995)

Glasgow University Magazine December, April (1995-1996)

Glasgow University Magazine Martinmas, Candlemas (complete) (1996-1997)

Glasgow University Magazine Freshers, Martinmas, Candlemas, Whitsun (complete) (1997-1998)

Glasgow University Magazine Freshers, March (complete) (1998-1999)

Glasgow University Magazine Freshers, May (complete) (1999-2000)

Glasgow University Magazine, Martinmas (2000-2001)

Private notes

Missing

Glasgow University Magazine (2001-2002)

Glasgow University Magazine Freshers, November, March (2002-2003)

Ygorra (1922-1973)

Alternative form available

Copies of Ygorra can also be found in some of the above bound volumes of Glasgow University Magazine

Ygorra (1922)

Ygorra (1925)

Ygorra (1926)

Ygorra (1927)

Ygorra (1928)

Ygorra (1929)

Ygorra (1930)

Ygorra (1931)

Ygorra (1932)

Ygorra (1933)

Ygorra (1934)

Ygorra (1935)

Ygorra (1936)

Ygorra (1937)

Ygorra (1938)

Ygorra (1939)

Ygorra (1940)

Ygorra (1950)

Ygorra (1953)

Ygorra (1967)

Ygorra (1969)

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