The First World War period (1914-1918) saw huge changes at The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) as many students and staff left to undertake war work and the institution grappled with personal losses and war time shortages. 100 years on, GSA’s Archives and Collections are undertaking research into this period, in particular focusing on the School’s Roll of Honour and its Home Front activities.
GSA’s Roll of Honour was designed and made by former GSA student Dorothy Doddrell in 1925. Taking the form of an illuminated parchment in paint and gold leaf set within a copper and wood framed triptych, this object was conserved in 2014 with support from the War Memorials Trust.
In 2015 a research project, supported by a Scottish Council on Archives and Heritage Lottery Fund Skills for the Future traineeship, sought to explore and document the stories behind the 405 names recorded on the Roll of Honour. A team of volunteers is now continuing with this research; the resulting biographies have and will continue to be made available on the Archives and Collections online catalogue: www.gsa.ac.uk/archives.
In 2016, research started into GSA students and staff who remained in Glasgow during the war and undertook Home Front activities. This work will form the basis of a new Home Front memorial and online content.
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Remembering Bourdon part 3: Bravery and Life at the Front
Remembering Bourdon Part 2: Captain Bourdon
Remembering Bourdon: Part 1
Refugee Festival Scotland!
John Charles Lamont and the WWI Roll of Honour – Part 3: The Friendship
John Charles Lamont and the WWI Roll of Honour – Part 2: Robert Sivell
John Charles Lamont and the WWI Roll of Honour – Part 1
Dr Tina Gray – Part 2
Dr Tina Gray – Part 1
Paul Jeffay: Artist in Exile
War Memorials and GSA Student, Dorothy Doddrell
The Canadian Expeditionary Forces
The Scottish Women’s Hospitals
Women on the Roll of Honour
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