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The GSA Roll of Honour and GSA Alumnus George Gordon Macfarlane: Part 2

19 October 2016

Today we continue with the story of George Gordon Macfarlane in volunteer Lewis Swallow’s second post. Macfarlane’s biography on the Dictionary of Scottish Architects showed that he continued as an architect after returning to London at the end of the war. Here, he ran his own practice where he designed inns for the brewers Watney Combe & Reid. In 1930, Macfarlane was granted Fellowship to the Royal Institute of British Architects, a title he was

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The GSA Roll of Honour and Alumnus George Gordon Macfarlane: Part 1

12 October 2016

Continuing with the GSA Archives and Collections posts on the GSA WWI Roll of Honour, volunteer Lewis Swallow writes about what he has discovered during his research into individuals on the Roll. During my time volunteering on this project, I have been able to delve into the life stories of former students and staff of The Glasgow School of Art who served in the First World War and, accordingly, whose names appear on the School’s

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The First World War and the GSA Roll of Honour

30 August 2016

Another post today about the recent research into the GSA’s First World War Roll of Honour. Volunteer Fiona Gordon talks about her experience of researching the individuals on the Roll, and some of the discoveries she has made. Researching the lives of students commemorated on the First World War Roll of Honour has not been a straight forward task. Many of the names listed have left frustratingly little information behind to discover them by. A

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Researching the GSA Roll of Honour

23 August 2016

Today our research of the individuals listed on the GSA Roll of Honour continues! One of our volunteers Melissa Reeve-Rawlings recaps some of the discoveries she has made in ‘Researching the GSA Roll of Honour’. The Glasgow School of Art Roll of Honour project has been researching a memorial commissioned in the 1920s which bears the names of over 400 staff and students of GSA who fought in the First World War. Unusually for a

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John Charles Lamont and the WWI Roll of Honour – Part 3: The Friendship

12 April 2016

Ailsa Sutcliffe, GSA Archives volunteer, continues with the final instalment of the story of John Charles Lamont, listed on the GSA WWI Roll of Honour. THE FRIENDSHIP In addition to their strong Glasgow connection and mutual residence in Kirkcudbright, Sivell and Lamont also married into the same local Sayers family. It is suggested that Lamont first encountered Elspeth Sayers at the marriage of Sivell and Isobel Sayers in Glasgow, 1923, just two years later they

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John Charles Lamont and the WWI Roll of Honour – Part 2: Robert Sivell

5 April 2016

Volunteer Ailsa Sutcliffe continues with her story about John Charles Lamont listed on the WWI Roll of Honour, with more information about his friend Robert Sivell. Robert Sivell was born in Paisley in 1888. His path into the Glasgow School of Art was not plain sailing. It was only after several years of hard labour in the Clydeside ship yards that he finally enrolled to The Glasgow School of Art in 1908 but lacked the

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John Charles Lamont and the WWI Roll of Honour – Part 1

31 March 2016

Ailsa Sutcliffe, one of the GSA Archives and Collections volunteers currently researching the GSA WWI Roll of Honour, talks about her work and what she has found out about one individual in particular. One John Charles Lamont. Researching the Roll of Honour’s men can be a fairly tricky task. It involves a lot of patience, determination and an ability to emotionally navigate the brutal reality of the First World War. Occasionally, however, one of the

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Women on the Roll of Honour

22 June 2015

Our Skills for the Future Trainee, Maja Shand, describes her first two months, the research she has been doing and what we can look forward to in the coming months! For the past two months research has been underway into the staff and alumni listed on GSA’s ‘Roll of Honour’, a war memorial commissioned by the School in 1925, or thereabouts, to commemorate those who served during the First World War. Designed by former student

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Conservation of GSA’s Roll of Honour features on BBC News

13 January 2015

GSA’s Roll of Honour has recently been conserved and today the BBC have included a feature about it on Reporting Scotland. The illuminated Roll of Honour was commissioned by the School to commemorate staff and students from Glasgow School of Art who served in World War One. It was designed by a former student, Dorothy Doddrell in 1925, and takes the form of an illuminated parchment in paint and gold leaf, set within a substantial copper

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Print of Glasgow School of Art Roll of Honour

Discovering Dorothy Doddrell

11 April 2023

In this post we’ll hear from Jessie Campbell about her work on the papers of Dorothy Doddrell. Jessie is a 3rd year undergraduate History of Art student from Glasgow University who has been undertaking a work placement with GSA’s Archives and Collections over the last few months. For almost a century, The Glasgow School of Art First World War Roll of Honour has been at the heart of campus, finding homes in the Mackintosh and

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Memorial to Eugene Bourdon by Robert Anning Bell (1863-1933)

Memorial to Eugene Bourdon

23 April 2022

Robert Anning Bell was Professor of the Design Section at GSA from 1911 to 1918, and then became Visiting Director of Studies to the Design School until his death in 1933. He was a painter, modeller for coloured relief, illustrator and designer of stained glass and mosaics. This stained glass memorial window commemorates Eugène Bourdon (1870-1916), the first Professor of Architectural Design at GSA, who was killed in action at the Somme in July 1916

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World War One

17 April 2022

Project The First World War period (1914-1918) saw huge changes at The Glasgow School of Art as many students and staff left to undertake war work and the institution grappled with personal losses and wartime shortages. 100 years on, GSA’s Archives and Collections undertook 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

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