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Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert A Watson-Watt, including his collection of printed material concerning the history of radar.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9343/1-88
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence and papers concerning radar in World War II, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1951, and other activities and interests.

Includes photographs, articles and printed books.

Dates: 1909-1969, undated.

Fife Archives oral history audio collection.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS041
Scope and Contents

A collection of oral history material with a focus on two particular groups: the Thornton Ladies Oral History Group; and the Thornton Railwaymen.

Dates: 1993-1995.

Gaelic oral history recordings, Scottish folk music, and Gaelic psalm singing recordings from the Gairloch Heritage Museum Oral History, Gaelic Story and Song Collection.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS008
Scope and Contents

A collection of songs, music, stories and testimony from the Gaelic community.

Dates: 1960-2000.

Recording of Scottish Television interview between Compton Mackenzie and George Reid.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5479
Scope and Contents

From the label with the tape: 'STV report - Sir Compton Mackenzie. Trascript to 1/4" - 7 1/21"/sec. 2nd March 72'.

Dates: 1972.

Reel-to-reel audio recording of a television interview with Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6254
Scope and Contents

Mostly concerning his political career. The carton holding the reel has a label, 'Title Sir Douglas Home off-air recording. No 3 3/4 [/sec]'. A Tyne Tees Television Limited compliments slip is with the tape.

Dates: 1974.

Reel-to-reel audiotape and transcript of a BBC radio broadcast, 'A time to talk / Hamish McInnes'.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6067/1-2
Scope and Contents

Concerning mountaineering expedition to the Roraima plateau, South America.

Dates: 1974.

Reel-to-reel sound recording, [from the label] 'Portrait - Ronald Stevenson', produced by the BBC.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7521
Scope and Contents

From the label on the box: 'British Broadcasting Corporation. Recording Service. R.P. REF. NO. YGW 45 650S122. REEL No. 1 of 1. TAKE 1 Portrait - Ronald Stevenson. TAKE 2 7 1/2 IPS'.

The title and reference number are repeated on the label on the reel.

Included is a BBC compliments slip.

Dates: 1979.

Reel-to-reel sound recording of a BBC television interview between Magnus Magnusson and Norman MacCaig.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6132
Scope and Contents

Annotated on the box, 'Personal pursuits 7 1/2 ips Norman Macaig full track'.

Dates: 1974.

Reel-to-reel sound tapes of a BBC radio interview with Archibald R B Haldane on the subject of the drove roads of Scotland.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.7381/1-2
Scope and Contents

Each of the two containers holding the tapes has been annotated 'Dub. 1615/1700'.

Dates: Circa 1975.

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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Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 19
Magnetic tapes. Tape (materials). 8
Broadcasts. Events. 7
Sound recordings. 7
Oral histories. Document genres. 6
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Language
English 24
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 2
 
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British Broadcasting Corporation 8
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (Glasgow) 3
MacCaig, Norman Alexander, poet, 1910-1996 2
MacInnes, Hamish, mountaineer, b 1930 2
Prudhomme, Georges, Professor of Scottish Studies, University of Nantes, d 1994 2
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Scottish National Party 2
Brotherston, William, 1913-1981 1
Caterpillar Tractors Ltd (Uddingston, manufacturer of heavy plant and industrial equipment) 1
Foster, John 1
Gabrielsen, Geir Wing (Ecophysiologist) 1
Gairloch Heritage Museum 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Haldane, Archibald Richard Burdon, Writer to the Signet, 1900-1982 1
Hay, James Roy (interviewer of workers of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS)) 1
Hendry, Joy Mclaggan, Editor of 'Chapman', b 1953 1
Home, Alexander Frederick Douglas-, 14th Earl of Home and Baron Home of the Hirsel, Prime Minister, 1903-1995 1
MacKenney, Linda (creator of the Scottish Theatre Archive.) 1
MacLauchlan, John (interviewer of workers of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) ) 1
MacNeacail, Aonghas, poet, b 1942 1
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 1
Magnusson, Magnus, scholar, broadcaster and enviromentalist, 1929-2007 1
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 1
Mylne, Christopher Kenneth (ornithologist and broadcaster) 1
OnFife Archives. Fife Archives. Fife Cultural Trust (Charity established by Fife Council in 2012 to provide Libraries, Arts, Museums, Galleries, Archives, Theatres and Cultural Partnerships Services) 1
Perrie, Walter, magazine publisher, Edinburgh, b 1949 1
Read, Jan (scientist, film and television script writer, wine connoiseur) 1
Read, John (Professor of Chemistry, St Andrews University; science author) 1
Reid, Alastair, poet, b 1926 1
Reid, George Newlands, Lord-Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire, b 1939 1
Scottish Television Ltd, broadcaster 1
Silver, Robert Simpson (James Watt Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Glasgow) 1
Sinclair, William A 1
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 1
Sykes, Janet Inglis (née Hutchinson, lecturer and artist. known as 'Bunny') 1
Trumbull, Fred (Sound Recordist) 1
Trumbull, Virginia (Sound Recordist) 1
Tullis Russell (1809-) (Paper manufacturer ) 1
University of Glasgow, Library 1
University of St Andrews 1
Watt, Sir Robert Alexander Watson-, Knight, developer of radar, 1892-1973 1
Woolfson, Charles (lecturer in the Department of Social and Economic Research, University of Glasgow) 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 1
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