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Reviews. Document genre.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Reports or essays giving critical estimates of a relatively recent work, performance, or event. For other critical descriptions and analyses, prefer ""criticism"" .

Found in 317 Collections and/or Records:

Programmes, photographs, scripts, press cuttings and other papers concerning the career of Edith Macarthur in theatre., 1945-2004.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13182/1-66
Scope and Contents

The productions covered in this section should not be taken as a comprehensive listing of every play in which Miss Macarthur performed – this is far from being the case.

Dates: 1945-2004.

Prompt script and reviews of "The Burgher's tale", by Allan Sharpe., 1988, [1994], undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11443/7-8
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Arranged alphabetically by title. The date in square brackets is that of the Fifth Estate production, where this has been possible to establish.

Dates: 1988, [1994], undated.

Prompt script and reviews of 'The last of the Lairds', by Allan Sharpe, after the novel by John Galt, containing staging notes and programme., 1989, [1993].

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11443/20-21
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Arranged alphabetically by title. The date in square brackets is that of the Fifth Estate production, where this has been possible to establish.

Dates: 1989, [1993].

Published articles and reviews of Janet Adam Smith., 1928-2016.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13861/103-112
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1928-2016.

Published articles and reviews of Janet Adam Smith and of Michael Roberts., 1928-2016.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13861/103-119
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1928-2016.

Published articles and reviews of Michael Roberts., 1931-1958

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13861/113-119
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1931-1958

Related material inserted in ‘Our Journall into Scotland, Anno Domini 1629, 5th of November’ by Christopher Lowther (Edinburgh, 1894).

 File
Identifier: MS.20755
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Photographs of the original manuscript (folio 1, 2, 5, 6); (ii) Letters, 1894, 1918, to the publisher, David Douglas, about the edition (folios 3, 7, 10, 18-48); (iii) A copy with manuscript corrections of pages 73-88 of the ‘Thirteenth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission’, Appendix, Part VII (London, 1893) (the first publication of Lowther's journal) (folio 11); (iv) Press cuttings, 1894, containing reviews of the book (folio 50); (v) A...
Dates: [1893, or after]-1918.

Review of 'Place names of Scotland', 2nd edition (Edinburgh, 1903) by James B Johnston., [1903, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.403
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: [1903, or after.]

Reviews and correspondence relating to 'The moth trap' by Tom Pow., 1989-1990.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12233/64
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates: 1989-1990.

Reviews and press cuttings, containing some reviews of the individual plays and coverage of the season as a whole., 1982-1983.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10893/92
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Containing papers on the following Scottish plays: 'Gold in his boots' by George Munro; 'U.A.B. - Scotland' by Harry Trott; 'Johnny Noble' by Ewan MacColl; "In time o' strife" by Joe Corrie; and 'Men should weep' by Ena Lamont Stewart.

Dates: 1982-1983.

Reviews by Janet Adam Smith for 'The Listener'., 1928-1968.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/103
Scope and Contents

Containing:

'The Listener’s Book Chronicle', 1928 [specimen reviews], 1929, 1930,1932-1937.

'The Listener’s Book Chronicle', 1938-1949, 1965-1968.

"The Listener’s ‘Week by Week’", and editorials from 'The Listener', 1929-1935.

Dates: 1928-1968.

Reviews by Janet Adam Smith for the 'New Statesman'., 1949-1975.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/106
Scope and Contents

Containing:

Articles and review essays for "New Statesman’s" 'Books in general' feature, 1950-1975.

Miscellaneous obituaries and articles by Janet Adam Smith for the 'New Statesman', 1950-1960.

Dates: 1949-1975.

Reviews by Janet Adam Smith for 'The Spectator', 1937-1949, and reviews of new novels, June–October 1940., 1937-1949.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/105
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1937-1949.

Reviews by Janet Adam Smith for the 'Times Literary Supplement'., 1936-1960, 1962-1996.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/104
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1936-1960, 1962-1996.

Reviews by Janet Adam Smith for various newspapers., 1936-1972.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/108
Scope and Contents

Containing reviews for: 'The London Mercury', 1936-1939; 'The Criterion', 1936-1939; 'The Times', 1936-1939, 1952, 1968-1971; and 'The Sunday Telegraph', 1962- 1972.

Dates: 1936-1972.