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Papers of the Fifth Estate Theatre Company.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11443/1-131
Scope and Contents

Includes prompt scripts, scripts of unperformed plays, production photography and press cuttings.

Dates: 1965, 1981-1997 and undated.

Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26036-26103
Scope and Contents

James Leslie Mitchell is best known for his Scottish novels, ‘Sunset song’ (London, 1932), ‘Cloud Howe’ (London, 1933) and ‘Grey granite’ (London, 1934), published under the pseudonym 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', but he also wrote essays, biographies, and a study of South American history, ‘The conquest of the Maya’ (London, 1934).

Dates: 1915-1979.

Papers of the Traverse Theatre.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9285
Scope and Contents

Includes minutes, accounts, correspondence and play scripts

Dates: 1969-1985.

Papers of the Traverse Theatre Company.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10365
Dates: 1964-1987 and undated.

Papers of William Douglas Home.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9406
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence and play scripts.

Dates: 1936-1987.

Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008

Photocopies of drafts of four radioscripts by Donald MacLeod of lessons on piobaireachd, with three cassettes of sound recordings by him.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10764/1-4
Scope and Contents

With three casettes of piobaireachd played MacLeod.

Dates: Circa 1960-1980.

Playscripts, mainly of works performed at the Ramshorn Theatre, Glasgow.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13260
Scope and Contents Playscripts, 1985-2011, mainly of works performed at the Ramshorn Theatre, or by Strathclyde Theatre Group, Glasgow.The theatre, in the former Ramshorn Kirk in Glasgow’s Merchant City, opened in 1992 and was run by the University of Strathclyde through Strathclyde Theatre Group. Established in 1971, Strathclyde Theatre Group grew from a student company into a radical and experimental group, which has provided an important, informal academy of theatre arts for Glasgow, for the...
Dates: 1985-2011.

Playscripts of Charles Gairdner and Ada F Kay.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11617
Scope and Contents

Includes related papers.

Dates: 1955-1962.

Production archive of Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13016
Scope and Contents

Includes playscripts, photographs, reviews and publicity material.

Dates: circa 1990-2008.

Production files, scripts and administrative papers of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12911/1-317
Scope and Contents

This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1946, 1971-2006.

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Subject
Scripts. Documents 109
Correspondence. 41
Plays. 39
Typescripts. 28
Scripts. Documents. 27
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Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 24
Photographs. 20
Manuscripts. 19
Drafts. Documents. 16
Notebooks. 13
Articles. 12
Poetry. 12
Audiocassettes. 11
Short stories. 11
Notes. 9
Novels. 9
Administrative records. 8
Letters. Correspondence. 8
Diaries. 7
Interviews. 7
Minutes. Administrative records. 6
Photocopies. 6
Programmes 5
Speeches. Documents. 5
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 4
Copies. Derivative objects. 4
Research notes 4
Reviews. Document genre 4
Accounts. 3
Drafts. Documents 3
Programmes. 3
Proofs. Printed matter. 3
Publications. 3
Translations. Documents. 3
Autobiographies. 2
Broadcasts. Events. 2
Business records. 2
Catalogues. 2
Ephemera. 2
Histories. 2
Lectures. 2
Literature (writings). 2
Memoirs. 2
Posters. 2
Printed materials. Object genre. 2
Prompt books. Scripts. 2
Proofs. printed matter 2
Reports 2
Reports. 2
Reviews. Document genre. 2
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 2
Sketches 2
Songs. Musical compositions. 2
Travel journals 2
Videocassettes. 2
Account books. 1
Advertisements. 1
Africa. Continent. 1
Annotations. 1
Audiovisual materials. 1
Bibliographies. 1
Certificates 1
Christmas cards. 1
Constitutions. 1
Criticism. 1
Dedications. Documents. 1
Documentaries. 1
Essays 1
Exercise books. 1
Exhibition catalogues. 1
Fiction. 1
Film stills. Photographs. 1
Financial records. 1
Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 1
Illustrations. Layout features. 1
Journals. Accounts. 1
Leaflets. 1
Lists. 1
Logs. Records. 1
Magazines. periodicals. 1
Maps. Cartographic materials. 1
Memorabilia. 1
Mining. 1
Negatives. Photographs. 1
Newsletters. Serials. 1
Novellas. 1
Offprints. 1
Page proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 1
Paintings. Visual works. 1
Photographic plates. 1
Photographic prints. 1
Prefaces. 1
Professional papers. 1
Research notes. 1
Rules. Instructions 1
Scores 1
Scrapbooks 1
Screenplays. 1
Second World War (1939-1945). 1
Slides. Photographs. 1
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Language
English 129
Undetermined 5
German 2
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1
Multiple languages 1
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Swedish 1
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Names
British Broadcasting Corporation 15
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 8
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 4
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 4
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 3
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Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 3
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 3
McGrath, John Peter, playwright, director, 1935-2002 3
7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland) 2
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 2
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Macrae, John Duncan Graham, actor, 1905-1967 2
Royal Lyceum Theatre Company Ltd, Edinburgh 2
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 2
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 2
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Alexander, Donald, documentary filmmaker, 1913-1993 1
Baker, Jane, scriptwriter, fl 1968-1970 1
Bannerman, Helen Brodie Cowan, children's writer, née Watson, 1862-1946 1
Bannerman, William Burney, Major-General, 1858-1924 1
Barry, Michael, writer and producer, b 1942 1
Barry, Michael, writer and producer, b 1942: former owner 1
Bell, Alan Scott, library and literary consultant, 1942-2018 1
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1
Boyd, Edward, playwright and scriptwriter, 1916-1989 1
Braehead Mountaineering Club 1
Braehead Secondary School, Buckhaven 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Home Service, public service broadcaster 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Scotland 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Scottish Home Service, 1939-1967, public service broadcaster 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, Ian, Professor of Drama, Kingston University, London, b 1945 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Burnaby, Anne, screenwriter, fl 1952-1957 1
Böll, Heinrich, author, 1917-1985 1
Campbell, Austin, film director, fl 1960-1971 1
Church of Scotland 1
Church of Scotland, Itu Leper Colony, Nigeria 1
Citizen's Theatre, TAG, Glasgow, theatre company 1
Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow 1
Clifford, Bertram, electrical engineer, 1877-1954 1
Clifford, Jo, playwright, b 1950 1
Close Theatre, Glasgow 1
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984 1
Cooper, Budge, documentary filmmaker 1
Cooper, June, Pittenweem, fl 1994 1
Cording, Alastair, actor and playwright, fl 1971-2008 1
Craig, Bill, writer, 1930-2002 1
Cruickshank, Helen Burness, poet, 1886-1975 1
Dallmeyer, Andrew (playwright, theatre director and actor) 1
Dawn Cine Group (cine club) 1
Donald, Henry, playwright, fl 1974-1986 1
Dundee Repertory Theatre 1
Dunlop, Isobel V S, Secretary of the Saltire Music Group, b 1901 1
Dunlop, William, playwright, b 1951 1
Edinburgh Film Productions (Film Production Company) 1
Elder, Michael Aiken, actor and writer, 1931-2004 1
Erskine, Thomas Alexander, 6th Earl of Kellie, composer, 1732-1781 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fidler, Kathleen Annie (afterwards Goldie, author and headmistress) 1
Fifth Estate Theatre Company 1
Films of Scotland Committee 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Gairdner, Charles Campbell, poet and author, fl 1955 1
Gallus Stage Productions, theatre company 1
Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh 1
Gerson, Jack, author and scriptwriter, 1928-2012 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Gray, Alasdair (author) 1
Gray, John, broadcaster, 1918-2006 1
Gray, Sir Alexander, Knight, Professor of Political Economy, University of Edinburgh, 1882-1968 1
Gunn, Gilbert, writer and director, 1912-1967 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Hamilton, James Hay, playwright, fl 1975-1977 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Hewson, Andrew, literary agent, fl. 1981-2016 1
Hignett, Sean, playwright and novelist, fl 1971-1987 1
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 1
Jeffs, Tim, painter, 1904-1975 1
Johnson, David Charles, musician, 1942-2009 1
Kay, Ada F, writer, pseudonym A J Stewart, b 1929 1
Kelsall, Moultrie Rowe, actor and producer, 1904-1980 1
Lauder, Sir Henry MacLennan, Knight, comedian, 1870-1950 1
Lincoln, Carolyn Stewart, writer, b. 1943 1
Low, Bet, artist, 1924-2007 1
MacCaig, Norman Alexander, poet, 1910-1996 1
MacDougall, Ian, Honorary Secretary, Scottish Labour History Society, b 1933 1
MacDougall, Roger, playwright and screenwriter, 1910-1993 1
MacKinnon, Allan, screenwriter, 1912-1955 1
MacLeod, Donald, Pipe Major, 1916-1982 1
MacNeacail, Aonghas, poet, b 1942 1
Macarthur, Edith, actor, b. 1926 1
Macdonald, Andrew Buchanan, Superintendent of the Itu Leper Colony, 1892-1970 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1
Mackenzie, Robert F, Headteacher, Braehead Secondary School , 1910-1987 1
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 1
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