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Lectures.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Documents containing the text of expositions of a given subject delivered before an audience or class, especially for the purposes of instruction. (AAT) Use for all lecture texts and students' notes. Index also under the subject of the lecture, and under the names of the lecturer and student where known (but not under the university or other place where the lecture was delivered). (NLS) .

Found in 359 Collections and/or Records:

Speeches and lecture notes., 1966-2005.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/730-757
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.

Dates: 1966-2005.

'The Nature of Scotland' (1991)., 1991-1992.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/26-27
Scope and Contents From the Series: Most, but not all, of Magnusson's published works are represented. Also included here are the translations that Magnusson undertook on the work of the Icelandic author and Nobel prize winning novelist Halldór Laxness (1902-1998). Material relating to Magnusson's book on Mastermind "I've started so I'll finish" can be found in the Mastermind section.The material includes correspondence relating to book proposals, research notes compiled by Magnusson while working on his books, and...
Dates: 1991-1992.

Three Lectures on ‘The Nature of Scotland’., 1992.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/27
Scope and Contents

Magnusson has identified the first two as lectures with slides on John Lister Kaye, and the third as the text of Graham White.

Dates: 1992.

Typescript drafts of a paper, ‘Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Psycho-Analysis’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1951-1952.

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Identifier: MS.50200
Scope and Contents The papers are arranged chronologically.1951.Letter, 1951, of James Inglis, Honorary Secretary of the Edinburgh University Psychology Society, to William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The letter concerns an invitation to Fairbairn to speak at the Society, where Fairbairn later read his paper ‘Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Psycho-Analysis’. Folio 1.1952.Amended typescript, 1952, of a draft paper, ‘Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of...
Dates: 1951-1952.

Typescripts and galley proofs of articles and papers by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘Communism as an Anthropological Phenomenon’; and, ‘The Elimination of the Potential Neurasthenic during Training’., 1936-1937.

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Identifier: MS.50181
Scope and Contents The papers are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular work spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1936-1937. ‘Communism as an Anthropological Phenomenon’.Printed notice, 1936, advertising a paper, ‘Communism as an Anthropological Phenomenon’, to be read by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn at a meeting of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society, December 1936. Folios 1-2.Superseded...
Dates: 1936-1937.

Typescripts and printed copies of address, talks, radio broadcasts and lectures of Janet Adam Smith., 1939-1999.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12342/111-144
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Dates: 1939-1999.

Typescripts and working notes of lectures and speeches of Ian Rankin., 1985-2009, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.50525-50526
Scope and Contents

This series contains typescripts of, and associated working papers for, lectures and speeches given by Ian Rankin. The working papers include research and editorial notes.

Dates: 1985-2009, undated.

Typescripts of a paper, ‘Is Aggression an Irreducible Factor?’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1938.

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Identifier: MS.50186
Scope and Contents The papers are arranged chronologically. 1938.Carbon copy of a typescript abstract, 1938, of a paper, ‘Is Aggression an Irreducible Factor?’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. Folios 1-4.Amended typescript, 1938, of the paper, ‘Is Aggression an Irreducible Factor?’ by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The paper has been amended by Fairbairn. It was read before the British Psychological Society, St Andrews’ Meeting, 12 April 1938: a symposium on ‘The Concept...
Dates: 1938.