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Minutes. Administrative records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records of what was said and done at meetings or conferences.

Found in 965 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and papers relating to membership of Janet Adam Smith and involvement in the Alpine Club., 1957-1999.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/133
Scope and Contents

Containing:

Notes on articles and obituaries written by Janet Adam Smith about climbers - Christine Bicknell, and husband and wife team - Alison Chadwick and Janusz Onysckiewicz.

Minutes of meetings, rules and regulations of the Club and Library.

Club exhibition catalogues.

Dates: 1957-1999.

Correspondence and papers sent by William Ross, a former Madras civil servant, Sir George Ramsay, Baronet, of Bamff, and Lieutenant (later Major-General) William Blackburne, to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.

 File
Identifier: MS.9369
Scope and Contents

The correspondence, which includes extensive memoranda and minutes, deals in considerable detail with the policies of the East India Company's Madras government towards the Raja of Tanjore, the question of the Tanjore and Arcot debts, and dynastic disputes in the royal house.

An original letter, with translation, of the Raja of Tanjore to Dundas (folios 123-137), is included in the Blackburne correspondence.

Dates: 1786-1801.

Correspondence and records of the Hibernian Fifty Club., 1933-2004.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12436/8-10
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondence, annual reports, financial statements, fanzines and match day programmes, 1992-2005, of and relating to Hibernian Football Club collected by Philip D Thomson.

Dates: 1933-2004.

Correspondence concerning roads in East Stirlingshire., 1757-1849, 1864.

 File
Identifier: MSS.10887-10889
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1757-1849, 1864.

Correspondence, drafts, proofs and other papers relating to the publication of the 'Stair memorial encyclopedia of the laws of Scotland'; with proofs of "Scotland under 'Jus Commune'", by Gero Dolezalek.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11261/1-368
Scope and Contents Includes minutes, correspondence, administrative papers and drafts of the 'Stair memorial encyclopedia'. Note that no attempt has been made 'to weed' the various drafts; this is to allow researchers to compare draft against draft and so follow each expert’s 'train of thought' in particular fields. For any particular area of interest, all the folders/files relating to the subject should be consulted. In items 322-366, particularly, there are extensive drafts and re-drafts of titles with...
Dates: 1981-1996, 2010.

Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and speeches relating the ‘Paths for all initiative., 1995-1996.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/854
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

"Paths for all" initiative aimed to create up to 200 local path networks throughout Scotland.

Dates: 1995-1996.

Correspondence, minutes, journals and other papers concerning "Democracy for Scotland", a campaign for the reintroduction of a Scottish Parliament.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11497
Scope and Contents The Democracy for Scotland campaign began after the Scottish referendum held in 1979 failed to achieve the number of votes required to give Scotland devolved powers. The campaign began in 1992 and went on until a further referendum was held in Scotland in 1997. The campaign was based around a vigil which was erected in Edinburgh’s Calton Hill across the road from the Scottish office. The vigil was manned by strong supporters of Scottish independence. The Democracy for Scotland campaign was a...
Dates: 1992-1997.