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Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13898
Content Description

The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.

The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.

Dates: 1820-1974.

Correspondence and papers concerning the Chelsea Reel Club, kept by Hugh Rose Foss.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14532
Content Description

Correspondence, membership and guest lists, ball programmes, dance cards and notebooks, 1934-ca. 1992, concerning the running of the Chelsea Reel Club and its regular dances and balls.

The archive was maintained by Hugh Rose Foss, better known for his war-time career as a code breaker. The Club was founded by friends of Foss's wife in 1935. Foss initially acted as Vice-Chairman, and became Chairman in 1938.

Dates: 1934-1992

Correspondence and papers of John Addison Birkbeck; with items relating to Dundee Typographical Society, including a volume, September 1879-January 1897, of the Courier and Argus Chapel of the Dundee Typographical Society.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5277
Scope and Contents

Containing minutes of chapel meetings, lists of members, and accounts.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1879-1897, circa 1940-1971.

Minute-book of a lodge or trade union in Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: MS.833
Scope and Contents

The minute-book is apparently of operative house-carpenters and joiners (see folio 9), with a list of members and letters to divisions at Glasgow, London, Leith, and Dunfermline.

Dates: 1836-1837.

Records of the Edinburgh People's Festival.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14155/1-42
Scope and Contents The Edinburgh People’s Festival (EPF) was founded in 2002 by Colin Fox as a ‘more accessible and inclusive cultural alternative’ to the Edinburgh International Festival. It presented a series of plays, lectures, concerts, pageants, ceilidhs, and art exhibitions in different venues around the city of Edinburgh in August and throughout the year until 2018. The EPF was established in part as a tribute to the festival of the same name organised by the Edinburgh Labour Festival Committee,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1949-1954, 2003-2020.

Records of the Royal Highland Yacht Club

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14054/1-8
Content Description

Minutes, correspondence, lists of members, newsletters and journals.

Dates: 1970-2021.