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Papers of Magnus Magnusson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13542/1-1198
Scope and Contents This archive contains the papers of Magnusson Magnusson (1929-2007), broadcaster, scholar, author and environmentalist accumulated over the course of his career. After embarking on a career in journalism in the 1950s Magnusson moved into television in the-mid 1960s where he presented such programmes as "Chronicle" which was dedicated to achaeological discoveries. Magnusson may be best known for his role of quizmaster on the long-running BBC show Mastermind. Magnusson had a strong connection...
Dates: circa 1948-2006.

Papers of Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley relating to the 51st (Highland) Division in the First and Second World Wars.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7380/1-95
Scope and Contents

Maps, accounts, diaries, lectures and other papers, mainly concerning operations, 1942-1943, of the 51st (Highland) Division in North Africa and Sicily, together with a smaller quantity of associated post-war correspondence and some papers, 1918, concerning the Division in the First World War.

Dates: 1914-1976, undated.

Papers of Professor Gavin McCrone

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14067/1-15
Scope and Contents Memoirs of Gavin McCrone and papers connected with his role as a Senior, later Chief Economic Adviser in the Scottish Office, 1971-1980, and his management of two Scottish Office departments: the Industry Department for Scotland, 1980-1987, and the Scottish Development Department, 1987-1992. These are mostly comprised of reports and private background briefing papers for ministers, with some unpublished speech materials. After retiring from the civil service in 1992, McCrone held...
Dates: 1966-2011.

Papers of Professor John Erickson concerning the `Edinburgh Conversations`.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13596
Scope and Contents Correspondence, memoranda and related papers, 1974-1997, concerning the ‘Edinburgh Conversations’ and Professor John Erickson`s involvement in them.John Erickson (1929-2002) was a British military historian and the West’s leading authority on the Soviet military during and after the Second World War. During the ‘Cold War’ he was one of the very few academics to earn the trust of both sides and a key channel for contact between the Soviets and the Americans.After...
Dates: c.1970s-1994

Papers of Richard Dark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3617/1-17
Dates: 1815-1st half of 20th century.

Papers of Scotland-UN.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12735

Papers of the Bottomley and Barlow families.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11263
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin and papers on cable-laying and building bridges.

Dates: 1836-1924.

Papers of the first Earl Haig.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.3155

Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)

Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27256-27285
Scope and Contents

Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.

Dates: 1866-1969, undated.

Papers of the Scottish Campaign for Resistance of the Atomic Menace (SCRAM).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11607
Scope and Contents

Includes research files, correspondence, reports and press cuttings.

Dates: 1970-1994.

Papers relating to the involvement of Professor Hugh Pennington with campaign groups Better Together and Academics Together during the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13614/1-4
Scope and Contents

Papers related to the involvement of Professor Hugh Pennington (Emeritus Professor Bacteriology, University of Aberdeen) with the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014, particularly with the campaign groups Better Together and Academics Together.

Dates: 2012-2014

Political, academic and personal papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, political academic and MP for Berwick and East Lothian.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13476/1-319
Scope and Contents John Pitcairn Mackintosh (1929-1978) was a political scientist, professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and a Labour MP for Berwick and East Lothian (1966-1974, 1974-1978). He was pro-Europeist and pro-devolutionist and campaigned in favour of a yes vote during the 1979 Referendum on a Scottish Aseembly.The material consists of the personal and academic papers detailing Mackintosh’s political and academic career. The papers document his many academic ventures including his...
Dates: 1927-1978, undated.

Political papers of Sam Ghibaldan.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13669
Scope and Contents

Papers of Sam Ghibaldan chiefly relating to the Liberal Democrats in Westminster (1995-1997), including the Cook-Maclennan talks which led to the Blair government’s constitutional reform agenda; ‘Make Votes Count’, which was the pro-AV+ campaign in the electoral reform referendum that Blair’s government ultimately failed to hold; and the two Scottish coalitions (1999-2007).

Dates: 1996-2007

School report card of Robert Garioch Sutherland.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10626
Scope and Contents

With photographs and press cutting.

Dates: 1926-1927.

Scrapbook concerning the Vernacular Circle of the Burns Club of London.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8438
Scope and Contents

Containing reports, press cuttings, programmes and correspondence.

Dates: Undated

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Algeria. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 3.0000 . Latitude: 28.0000 . 1
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Book industries and trade 1
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Academics Together (pro-union campaign organisation, Scotland.) 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 51st (Highland) Division 1
Ayr Burns Club 1
Barlow (family) 1
Better Together Aberdeenshire (Local pro-union campaign organisation, Scotland) 1
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Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: transcriber 1
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, art collector, 1818-1880 1
Bottomley, family 1
Burns Club of London, Vernacular Circle 1
Craigen, James Mark, politician and author, b 1938 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Dobie, Kirkpatrick, Dumfries, grain merchant and author, 1908-1999 1
Edinburgh International Festival Society 1
Edinburgh and District Trades Council 1
Erickson, John, military historian, 1929-2002 1
Flynn, Laurie, journalist and writer, fl 1975-2011 1
Fox, Colin, b. 1969 (politician) 1
George Waterston and Sons Limited, printers, stationers and sealing wax manufacturers 1
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 1
Hamilton, Douglas Douglas-, 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon, nobleman and aviator, 1903-1973 1
Hamilton, George Nigel Douglas-, 10th Earl of Selkirk, 1906-1994 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Innes, Susan Katriona (journalist and feminist historian) 1
Lawson, George McArthur, politician, 1906-1978 1
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn (political scientist and politician) 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Magnusson, Magnus, scholar, broadcaster and enviromentalist, 1929-2007 1
McCrone, Robert Gavin Loudon, 1933- (economist and civil servant) 1
McLetchie, David William, WS, Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, b 1952 1
Mearns, Jim, b.1959 (civil servant, archaeologist, and political campaigner) 1
Mossman, Robert Cockburn, meteorologist, 1870-1940 1
Murray, James Robert Erskine-, physicist, 1868-1927 1
Murray, Katherine Marjory Stewart-, wife of John, 8th Duke of Atholl, née Ramsay, 1874-1960 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
National League of the Blind, Edinburgh Branch 1
National Union of Public Employees, Scottish Region 1
Pennington, Thomas Hugh, Professor (bacteriologist and academic.) 1
Roberts, David, painter, 1796-1864 1
Royal Academy of Arts 1
Royal Society of Edinburgh 1
Scotland-UN, pressure group 1
Scott, Rosamond Aeliz, wife of Sir Robert H, née Dewar-Durie, b 1911 1
Scott, Sir Robert Heatlie, Knight, Lord-Lieutenant of Tweeddale (formerly of Peebleshire), 1905-1982 1
Scottish Campaign for the Resistance of the Atomic Menace 1
Scottish Liberal Democrats, political party 1
Scottish Liberal Party, political party 1
Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet 1
St Andrew Society, Edinburgh 1
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 1
Taylor, Wilfred (journalist and author) 1
The Robert Burns World Federation Limited 1
Thomson, William, Baron Kelvin, 1824-1907 1
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 1
Wimberley, Douglas Neil, Major-General, 1896-1983 1
World Federation of Scottish Societies and Individuals 1
Yes Scotland (independence campaign umbrella organisation, Scotland.) 1
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