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This collection of oral history recordings covers a wide range of topics from around Aberdeen. Major themes include World War Two, fishing, employment, childhood, Torry, and Old Aberdeen.

Scope and Contents A collection of oral history interviews conducted over a period of three years from 1998–2001, with funding provided by the National Lottery Charities Board. The project collected oral histories through tutor led adult education initiatives and constructed a picture of life in 20th century Scotland from the perspectives of ordinary people. Over 450 people were involved in the project across 43 geographical locations, generating the oral history archive and also a book, four videos and a...

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A collection of oral history material with a focus on two particular groups: the Thornton Ladies Oral History Group; and the Thornton Railwaymen.

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A collection of songs, music, stories and testimony from the Gaelic community.

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A collection of oral history interviews which focuses on the Glasgow Unity Theatre and its productions designer, Helen Biggar.

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...

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

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The recordings were captured between 1992 and 1994. The interviews focus on immigrant Jewish women from the former Soviet Union who resettled in Israel.

Scope and Contents A collection of oral history interviews that were mainly conducted by National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland/National Museums Scotland social history curators between 1968 and 2009, covering subjects relating to their collecting, research and exhibition priorities. Interviewees were either donors of artefacts to the collections or employees of a particular occupational group which curators were researching in order to enhance the information available about related artefacts in the...

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A collection of interviews recorded by Linda MacKenney mostly in Scotland, but also the wider United Kingdom, between 1982 and 1985.

The collection focuses on people connected with Scottish theatre during the 1930s and 1940s. It also focuses on the creation and disbandment of important amateur theatre groups in Glasgow around the time of the Second World War, and the political climate of Scotland at that time.