Histories.
Found in 777 Collections and/or Records:
Two printed books of Peter Cunningham, and a printed book of Allan Cunningham, all with corrections and insertions by Peter Cunningham.
Peter Cunningham was born at Pimlico in 1816, the third son of Allan Cunningham. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, London and in 1834 obtained a position in the audit office, from which he retired in 1860. He published many works including 'Handbook of Westminster Abbey' (1842); 'Handbook of London' (1849); 'Story of Nell Gwyn' (1852). He also contributed to various periodicals including the 'Illustrated London News' and "Gentleman's Magazine". Cunningham died in 1869.
Two volumes on secular antiquities, being the second and third parts of a work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical and secular antiquities of Scotland., 1700-1707, or after.
Typescript and revised typescript of, and readers` reports on, "The Kingship of the Scots: 842-1292" (2002), by A A M Duncan.
Typescript copy of an unpublished history of Broughton Secondary School, Edinburgh, by John G Sinclair.
Typescript copy of H R Kelham, "The 1st Battalion the Highland Light Infantry in South Africa. 1899-1901".
Typescript copy of historical writings of George Dott, principally about the Scottish coal, mineral and railway industries, and marine and maritime matters; with a copy of 'A Scottish Earl Chemist: The First Discovery of Gas' (1902), by J Wilson Dougal, re-printed from the West Lothian Courier.
The volume also contains copies of the published versions of some of the typescripts, and of some material not present in typescript form.
Typescript copy of "The Ladies Quarter".
Concerning Leitholm and its surroundings.
Typescript description, 1952, of the parish of Kidalton, Islay, by Alexander and Islay D Shanks, later published in the "Third Statistical Account of Argyll".
Typescript history, 1972, of Port Ellen school, Islay, by Peggy Earle, pupil and teacher at the school.
Typescript drafts, both much corrected and added to, with parts of a third, of a history of the lower Niger in the nineteenth century; a brief account of the administrations is followed by a detailed postal history.
The authors appear from internal evidence to be William W Forsyth and H G Porter, the date of composition the late 1930s.
Typescript history of Cumbernauld by the Reverend John Ogilvie.
With a scrapbook, circa 1940, containing press cuttings of articles of Ogilvie.
Typescript history of the Lovat Scouts in the Great War.
Typescript local history of Anne Gordon, "Nigg: a Changing Parish".
Typescript notes compiled by James Steuart.
Concerning the Steuart family and on the history of the legal firm, J C and A Steuart.
Typescript of an extended essay of James Bruce on the history of Highland roads and bridges.
Typescript of an unpublished literary and cultural history of Edinburgh in the age of enlightenment by Agnes M Macdonald.
Typescript of C G Macdowall, "The Chanonry of Ross, Being Studies in the History of Fortrose and Rosemarkie and the Cathedral Kirk of Ross".
Typescript of the ‘History of the Blantyre Mission, 1876-1956’, by Thomas Price., Circa 1980.
Unpublished history. Thomas Price was a teacher and mission worker at Blantyre from 1928-1947.
Typescript of thesis of Philippe Plantade, "Histoire des Institutions Judiciaires Éccosaises".
Typescript of "Time Bombs. A Short History of the Clocktower Press", by Duncan McLean.
Typescript of two lectures on the history of Airdrie, by James Thomson Rankin.
Typescript of unpublished work of Alexander Law, "Schoolbooks and Textbooks in Scotland in the 18th Century: a Handlist with Introduction and Notes".
Typescript Peeblesshire church histories, by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn, intended to form part of the author's series of 'Books of the Church'.
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.
Typescripts, drafts, correspondence and other papers relating to the doctoral thesis of Angus Calder, and books and broadcasts arising from it., 1964-1988.
Concerning his doctoral thesis, books and broadcasts, his involvement in East African literature, his editorship of 'Journal of Commonwealth literature' and convenorship of the Scottish Poetry Library.
Includes lectures notes, drafts, histories, correspondence and interviews.