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Accounts and papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company).
Fonds
Identifier: Adv.MSS.83.1.1-83.9.3
Dates:
1694-1709.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the extension of building shelving in the library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/47
Dates:
1906-1907.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the printing of the Library’s catalogue.
File
Identifier: F.R.341
Dates:
1819-1879.
Correspondence, minutes, journals and other papers concerning "Democracy for Scotland", a campaign for the reintroduction of a Scottish Parliament.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11497
Scope and Contents
The Democracy for Scotland campaign began after the Scottish referendum held in 1979 failed to achieve the number of votes required to give Scotland devolved powers. The campaign began in 1992 and went on until a further referendum was held in Scotland in 1997. The campaign was based around a vigil which was erected in Edinburgh’s Calton Hill across the road from the Scottish office. The vigil was manned by strong supporters of Scottish independence. The Democracy for Scotland campaign was a...
Dates:
1992-1997.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16
Dates:
1509-19th century.
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7530-8022
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the surviving foreign mission records to 1929 (with a few documents of the early 1930s) of the churches which in that year reunited to form the Church of Scotland, namely the (Established) Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, the latter itself the product of the union in 1900 between the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church. The bulk of the material consists of the letter-books of the conveners, secretaries, and...
Dates:
1822-1936.
Microfilm of Church of Scotland Missionary Archive. Part 1. Missions to India and China 1829-1933. Reels 1-7 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1717-1723
Dates:
1829-1933.
Microfilm of ‘The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709)’ (Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 2007).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1743-1760
Dates:
1694-1709.
Minutes, accounts, and miscellaneous papers of the Edinburgh Skating Club.
Series
Identifier: MSS.24641-24649
Scope and Contents
The Edinburgh Skating Club was clearly well-established in 1784 when the first minute book starts. Apart from a few years of inactivity the Club flourished until the early 1900's when combined figure-skating declined in popularity. It was finally dissolved in 1966. Although the Club attracted a large proportion of its members from the legal profession, the Edinburgh Skating Club was not socially exclusive and the membership lists include local noblemen, merchants, army offers and a slater....
Dates:
1784-1966, undated.
Minutes and other records of the Conference of Scottish Medieval Historians.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.287
Dates:
1958-1996.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/51
Scope and Contents
The papers include the following: Binding (1848), Sale of duplicates (1823), Cataloguing of manuscripts (circa 1839), Booklists (1832-1834), Faculty's collection of coins (1840), Music (1830-1833), Engraved portraits for sale (1824), Newspapers (1831, 1877), Booklets (1832-1834).
Dates:
1824-1881.
Office records of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.301
Dates:
1726-1888.
Papers of the Scottish Centre of International PEN.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9364
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, minutes, accounts and memoirs concerning the history of the Scottish Centre.
Dates:
1953-1983.
Papers of the Scottish Committee, World Day of Prayer.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10882
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes and accounts.
Dates:
1991-1993.
Papers of the Scottish Philharmonic Club.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9695
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes, accounts and correspondence.
Dates:
1976-1987.
Papers of the Traverse Theatre.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9285
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes, accounts, correspondence and play scripts
Dates:
1969-1985.
Papers of the Traverse Theatre Club, including correspondence, minutes, accounts and play scripts.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.305
Dates:
1966-1978.
Papers of the Very Reverend Harry Whitley, Doctor of Divinity.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.374-374A
Dates:
1919-1978, and undated.
Papers of the Waddell School of Music, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12190
Scope and Contents
Includes programmes, photographs, personal and corporate papers, journals and related ephemera.
Dates:
Late 19th century to late 20th century
Personal and political papers of Rosemary Hall.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13491
Scope and Contents
Rosemary Hall was born on 22nd April 1925 in Aberdeen. She spent her early life in Montrose where her father and uncle ran the family salmon fishing business. Hall began her schooling in Montrose. However, the outbreak of the war caused interruption and her school was evacuated to Speyside. She began her working life as a PA to a partner in a firm of accountants in Edinburgh. Although Hall gave up her job after marriage, she did not stop working; she was against nuclear power in all forms...
Dates:
1947-2010