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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 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 East Edinburgh Unionist Association.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13285
Scope and Contents

Minute books, membership registers, financial records and related papers, 1921 – 2001, of the East Edinburgh Unionist Association.

Dates: 1921 - 2001