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2 reel-to-reel audio tapes of radio programmes from the BBC series, 'Orbit'.
File
Identifier: Acc.6185
Dates:
1974.
2 reel-to-reel audiotapes of a BBC television programme, 'The life that late we led', concerning Sir Compton Mackenzie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6183/1-2
Dates:
1974.
376 audiotapes made for the Linguistic Survey of Scotland.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.319
Dates:
[Before 1981.]
Audio recordings, correspondence and papers of the Commonwealth Writers' Conference, Edinburgh, 20 July 1986.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9403/1-49
Dates:
1986, undated.
Circa 500 letters of Florence M Russell to Norman McLaren.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10639
Scope and Contents
With cards, drawings and photographs.
Dates:
1951-1976 and undated.
Collection of oral history interviews with individuals who worked at the Tullis Russell Paper.
Collection
Identifier: UNLS032
Dates:
1990-1999.
Collection of oral history recordings from the "Salt of the Earth: A Scottish Peoples’ History Project", co-ordinated by the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA)
Collection
Identifier: UNLS006
Scope and Contents
A collection of oral history interviews conducted over a period of three years from 1998–2001, with funding provided by the National Lottery Charities Board. The project collected oral histories through tutor led adult education initiatives and constructed a picture of life in 20th century Scotland from the perspectives of ordinary people. Over 450 people were involved in the project across 43 geographical locations, generating the oral history archive and also a book, four videos and a...
Dates:
1998-2001
Collection of sound recordings made by John Junner relating to his interest in traditional Scottish music.
Collection
Identifier: UNLS028
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of personal recordings predominantly made by John Junner, a teacher and Scottish traditional music expert and collector. It includes published, unpublished and broadcast material (including BBC Schools programmes). The Collection has a focus on the work of James Scott Skinner.
Dates:
1929-2009.
Correspondence and papers of Aonghas MacNeacail, including a large collection of interviews on audio tapes.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11334/1-120
Dates:
1972-1996, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Salis Daiches, including some of his wife Flora, son Lionel, and other members of the Daiches family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12278/1-61
Dates:
Circa 1880-?2003.
Correspondence and papers of Sir George Taylor, botanist, including diaries and photographs relating to botanical expeditions to Africa and the Himalayas.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9533/1-414
Scope and Contents
Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...
Dates:
1792-1990.
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.
Correspondence, notes, photographs and audiotapes of Dr Alice G. Vines relating to her book `The MacDonald Women: Margaret and Ishbel`.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13629/1-21
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, research papers, photographs and audio tapes, 1904-1994, of Dr. Alice Gilmore Vines (1923-2009) relating to her PhD thesis on Margaret Ethel Gladstone MacDonald (1870-1911) and Ishbel MacDonald (1903-1982), James Ramsay MacDonald’s wife and daughter.Dr. Vines collected this material in the course of her research for an intended biography of the two women. Over a number of summers she visited Ishbel in Lossiemouth and corresponded with her. Unfortunately, she had...
Dates:
1904-1994
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.
Interviews between Georges Prudhomme and 23 personalities connected twith the Scottish Nationalist movement.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7098
Dates:
1973.
Literary papers of Maureen McIlwraith, known as Mollie Hunter, including upublished novels, correspondence and audio-visual recordings.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12792/1-41
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1933, circa 1960-2002, undated.
Manuscripts, correspondence, and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12765/1-42
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, publications and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie (1913–1998) and his family. Robert Blair Wilkie was the curator of the Old Glasgow Museum 1965-1998 (formerly known as the People’s Palace Museum). Active member of the Scottish Nationalist movement (joined Scottish Nationalist Association under John MacCormick in 1937), in 1945 he was the SNP candidate in West Renfrewshire, and in the following year he was appointed editor of the Scots Independent...
Dates:
1870-2001.
Manuscripts, typescripts and other papers of Duncan Glen, including research materials relating to Hugh MacDiarmid.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10094/1-65
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and essays, and includes critical work on Hugh MacDiamrid.
Dates:
1941-1989.
Oral history interviews conducted by David W. Lyle as research for his writings on the history of the town of St Andrews
Series
Identifier: UNLS034
Dates:
1983-1988.
Oral history recordings made by Franki Raffles as part of her project "Lot's Wife".
Series
Identifier: UNLS031
Scope and Contents
The recordings were captured between 1992 and 1994. The interviews focus on immigrant Jewish women from the former Soviet Union who resettled in Israel.
Dates:
1992-1994.
Oral history recordings of life and work in North East Scotland, with related notes, made by Jim Taylor.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13952
Dates:
circa 1960-1980.
Papers of Pricilla Jean Fortescue, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11294- is now Acc.11884.
Dates:
Undated.