Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...

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Correspondence, drafts, notes, and working papers of Philip D Thomson of and concerning '100 Years of Hibs' (Edinburgh, 1975), being the centenary history of Hibernian Football Club co-written with Gerald Docherty. With circa 1000 Hibernian Football Club match programmes, photographs, 27 scrapbooks, fanzines and epherma, 1933-93, of and relating to Hibernian FC and Scottish football in general.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection comprises school papers, 1943-1959, and material relating to his time at Edinburgh University, 1957-1962; files relating to elections, 1961-circa 1990s; political papers, 1954-1981, mainly concerning constituency politics; manuscript diary of the Lib-Lab Pact, 1977-1978; files relating to his involvement in the Scottish Constitutional Convention, 1988-1998, including minutes of meetings and related correspondence; files relating to Scottish politics, 1992-1999, including...

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Includes a letter, 1952, of James Anderson, Culloden, to Miss Augusta Lamont of Knockdow.

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The items, now contained in a small suitcase, comprise:

Cream tuxedo jacket

Bowler hat

Silver salver awarded to Lex McLean by Rangers Football Club Supporters’ Association in 1972.

Scottish Television Comedian of the Year award 1970. (Information from vendor of collection, inscription is missing.)

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondence, drafts, notes, and working papers of Philip D Thomson of and concerning '100 Years of Hibs' (Edinburgh, 1975), being the centenary history of Hibernian Football Club co-written with Gerald Docherty. With circa 1000 Hibernian Football Club match programmes, photographs, 27 scrapbooks, fanzines and epherma, 1933-93, of and relating to Hibernian FC and Scottish football in general.

Scope and Contents The papers provide an insight into the personal and political relationship between James Ramsay Macdonald (1866-1937) and Bailie George Kerr of Glasgow (fl.1860-1942) over a period of nearly three decades. They also illustrate the development of the early Socialist movement in Scotland, trade unionism and Glasgow local politics. As well as letters of James Ramsay Macdonald, the archive includes correspondence of prominent Socialists such as John and Katherine Bruce Glasier and leading...

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Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.

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Includes family correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, sketches, drawings, photographs and personal memorabilia.

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Largely concern the Society`s 250th anniversary in 1985.

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The album contains copies of original photographs with some correspondence and memorabilia concerning Thomas Ward Allan`s career as a tea planter in the Dooars, North Bengal.

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The collection comprises photographs and correspondence, c.1945-1974, concerning Hannan’s political career and his time in Clement Attlee’s cabinet, with several letters of two British Prime Ministers: Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson. Furthermore, it includes Hannan’s ministerial despatch box and an illustrated edition of ‘The Dolly Ballads’ by Robert Blatchford, inscribed by Herbert Morrison, MP, to Helen Hannan, William’s daughter.

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Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.