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Interviews.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Statements, transcripts, or recordings of conversations in which one person obtains information from another such as for research purposes, publication, or broadcast.

Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:

Notes, newspaper cuttings, and interviews on Magnusson’s bid to become Rector of Edinburgh University., 1975-1976.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/1168
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Magnusson served as Rector at the University of Edinburgh from 1975 until 1978. He also served as Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University from 2002 until 2007. The papers relate to Magnusson's election campaign and his various engagements at the two Universities.

Dates: 1975-1976.

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.

Oral history interviews conducted and recorded by Neil C Rafeek as research for his thesis, 'Against all the odds: women in the Communist Party in Scotland 1920-91: an oral history'.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS003
Content description

The collection focuses on the testimony of women involved in the Communist Party of Great Britain in Scotland from its inception to its demise.

Dates: 1994-1997.

Papers on positions held by Magnus Magnusson at Scottish Universities., 1975-2005.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/1168-1181
Scope and Contents

Magnusson served as Rector at the University of Edinburgh from 1975 until 1978. He also served as Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University from 2002 until 2007. The papers relate to Magnusson's election campaign and his various engagements at the two Universities.

Dates: 1975-2005.

Papers relating to promotional events and tours undertaken by Ian Rankin in Greece, Iceland, the Netherlands, and Sweden. , 2002-2014.

 File
Identifier: MS.50548
Scope and Contents Materials are arranged alphabetically by the name of the country in which the event took place, and therewithin are in their original order upon acquisition. Greece. Folios 1-17. Photocopies of assorted papers, 2003, including press releases, interviews and reviews, in Greek, relating to a publicity tour of Greece made by Ian Rankin. Folios 1-15.No folio 16.Leaflet, 2014, in Greek, advertising an interview and talk with Ian Rankin in Athens, hosted by...
Dates: 2002-2014.

Photocopies, press cuttings and papers, some unpublished, of John McGrath, and interviews with him, 1981-84, undated, containing photocopy of ‘The Left, the SNP, and the black, black oil’ by Bob Tait, [1974], and an extract from an unidentified typewritten source on the work of Arnold Wesker, John McGrath and 7:84, undated., 1974, 1981-1984, undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10893/428
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Aside from, though related to, his work with 7:84, John McGrath was involved in the study of political theatre, and was himself the subject of many articles, papers and dissertations. Much of the material listed in this section falls into this category, though there is also some that might equally well have been incorporated into the main 7:84 sequence, and vice-versa. There is some overlap with, and duplication of, items in the main sequence.

Dates: 1974, 1981-1984, undated.

Photocopy of letter, 1856, of David Livingstone.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11642
Scope and Contents

Letter concerns a debt owed to the recipient`s (identified only as Welsh) brother. Includes a summary of interview, 1948, by Michael Kittermaster with Alumana, a headman in Zambia, on his meeting with Livingstone in 1873.

Dates: 1856 and 1948.

Poems, prose pieces and music by various authors collected by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1942-1978, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27219
Scope and Contents

Many may have been sent to Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ for his opinion. A substantial number are unsigned and many are incomplete. They include part of a biography of John MacLean by James Maxton (folio 116), a chapter on the Celtic background of Scottish literature (folio 181), and part of an interview with MacDiarmid by Alexander Scott (folio 227).

Dates: 1942-1978, undated.

Printed material and newspaper cuttings., 1858-1922, 1929, 1932, 1959, 1973.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9942/51-54
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Papers of Sir John Kirk GCMG KCB (1832-1922), physician, administrator, naturalist, photographer, and Lady Kirk, née Helen Cooke (d.1914).John Kirk was born at Barry in Forfarshire in 1832. After qualifying as a doctor in 1854, he volunteered for medical service in the Crimea and subsequently became Dr. David Livingstone's chief assistant on his second Zambesi Expedition, 1858-1863. In 1866 Kirk was appointed Medical Officer and Vice-Consul of Zanzibar. He became Assistant...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1858-1922, 1929, 1932, 1959, 1973.

Published articles on the life and work of Janet Adam Smith., 1965-2016.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/112
Scope and Contents Containing:'A Scot in Westminster talks about her countrymen' by Juliet Brittain, 1965.Article in the Diamond Jubilee Supplement of the Radio Times, September 1983.Interview with Janet Adam Smith by John Hargreaves for Aberdeen University Oral History Archive, 1986.Interview with Janet Adam Smith by Rebecca Cavanagh, 6th grade pupil in London, 1991.Interview with Janet Adam Smith by Diana Paul, for the St Columbus Magazine, 1996....
Dates: 1965-2016.

Record of interview between Emperor William II of Germany and Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, with other related papers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4171
Scope and Contents A small collection of papers and photographs, relating to an interview in 1929 by Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, diplomat and author (1887-1970), with the ex-Kaiser of Germany, Wilhelm II, and to a subsequent visit, 1939, to the Kaiser and his wife at Doorn, in the Netherlands.The contents are as follows:1. A paper headed, ' "D". Second Interview with the Kaiser, 1929. Written by himself.' The questions put to Wilhelm II (in typescript) were submitted by Bruce...
Dates: 1929, 1939.

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.