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Aberdeen City Art Gallery and Museums Oral History Audio Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS029
Scope and Contents

This collection of oral history recordings covers a wide range of topics from around Aberdeen. Major themes include World War Two, fishing, employment, childhood, Torry, and Old Aberdeen.

Dates: 1984-2004.

Sound recordings from the Linda MacKenney Audio Collection, Scottish Theatre Archive, of interviews by MacKenney with people prominent in Scottish theatre during the 1930s and 1940s.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS025
Scope and Contents

A collection of interviews recorded by Linda MacKenney mostly in Scotland, but also the wider United Kingdom, between 1982 and 1985.

The collection focuses on people connected with Scottish theatre during the 1930s and 1940s. It also focuses on the creation and disbandment of important amateur theatre groups in Glasgow around the time of the Second World War, and the political climate of Scotland at that time.

Dates: 1967-1985.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents

The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).

Dates: 17th century.