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Glasgow Unity Theatre audio collection, Scottish Theatre Archive.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS026
Scope and Contents

A collection of oral history interviews which focuses on the Glasgow Unity Theatre and its productions designer, Helen Biggar.

Dates: 1983.

Oral history interviews conducted and recorded by Neil C Rafeek and Hilary Young as part of their research for the book ‘The University Experience 1945-1975: An Oral History of the University of Strathclyde’ (2004).

 Series
Identifier: UNLS004
Scope and Contents This collection of oral history interviews with various students and members of academic and support staff at the University of Strathclyde formed part of the research material used by Callum G Brown, Arthur McIvor, and Neil C Rafeek to write a book entitled ‘The University Experience 1945-1975: An Oral History of the University of Strathclyde’. The interviewees discuss both their backgrounds and their experiences of teaching and working at the University of Strathclyde between 1945 and...
Dates: 2002-2003.

Scottish Ornithologists' Club Wildlife and Oral History Collection.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS009
Scope and Contents The collection includes: interviews with Scottish ornithologists; after dinner speeches, 1968-1981, made at the annual Scottish Ornithologists' Club conference; recordings relating to Fair Isle and the Scottish Bird Islands Study Cruise at the time of the International Ornithological Congress in 1966. The remainder of the collection comprises recordings of birds from various locations around Scotland, including St Kilda. Amongst the group represented here is a selection from a...
Dates: 1960-2005.

Sound recordings, and transcripts, of media reports on the 'work-in' dispute, 1971-1972, at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS). BBC broadcast material.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS022
Scope and Contents

The recordings include BBC news items and special features covering the UCS 'work-in'. Interviewees include members of the Joint Shop Stewards Committee, and other workers.

Dates: 1969-1972.

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.

Sound recordings made by Charles Woolfson and John Foster concerning the worker occupation in 1987 of the Caterpillar Tractors Ltd plant at Uddingston, Scotland.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS024
Scope and Contents

Charles Woolfson was a lecturer in the Department of Social and Economic Research at the University of Glasgow, and John Foster was documenting the 103 day action. The recordings are of Joint Occupation Committee meetings, interviews, and relevant broadcast material.

Dates: March-April 1987.

Sound recordings of various meetings and events during the 'work-in', 1971-1972, at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS).

 Series
Identifier: UNLS023
Scope and Contents

The recordings were originally made for the purpose of writing up shop stewards' bulletins by the publicity committee. The events covered include: mass meetings of UCS workers; shop steward meetings; press interviews; and television and radio programmes concerning UCS.

Dates: 1971-1972.

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