University of Glasgow history 1451 traces how Bishop Turnbull’s papal charter created the university where Adam Smith and James Watt changed the world. Genealogy records from the 1450s at Glasgow Archives.
Scottish university records are among the best-digitised in Britain, but poorly indexed for genealogy. This guide shows where to find them and what they contain.
University of Edinburgh history 1582 traces how a town council founded Scotland’s greatest university. Genealogy records from the 1590s name students, physicians, and servants at the Centre for Research Collections.
The Jews of medieval Oxford lived beside the scholars from 1141 until expelled in 1290. Their Exchequer records survive and can document your ancestors.
College servants Oxford Cambridge: battels books, bursars’ accounts, and wage books document the scouts, cooks, porters, and tradespeople who kept the colleges running.
English College Salamanca genealogy: how the records of English and Irish Catholic exile seminaries in Spain document family histories that survive nowhere else.
Historic university records In 1887, a London solicitor named Joseph Foster published the first volume of what would become a four-volume monument to patient scholarship. He called it Alumni Oxonienses. Working methodically through the University of Oxford’s own matriculation registers, Foster indexed every man who had matriculated between 1500 and 1714, noting beside each name
Harvard In Memoriam volumes In the autumn of 1865, Thomas Wentworth Higginson sat down to write letters. The war was over. Harvard had sent roughly a thousand men into uniform and 136 of them had not come back, and Higginson (abolitionist, colonel of the first Black regiment in the Union Army, Class of 1841) had
