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Includes some minutes in Braille.

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

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The archive of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, 1929-64, together with much 19th and earlier 20th century material, and some items relating to Jewish and Continental Missions.

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Includes: correspondence with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, regarding the cataloguing of tsuba in the Marlay bequest; the annual report, 1913, of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate; and rubbings of tsuba with names or inscriptions in the Royal Scottish Museum.

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

Scope and Contents The Britain-Russia Centre, Scotland, was founded in 1959 as the Scottish Branch of the Great Britain-USSR Association. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the branch became the Scottish Branch of the Great Britain-Russia Association, before becoming the Britain-Russia Centre, Scotland, in the later 1990s. The aim of the organisation was to promote understanding between the two areas through personal and professional contacts on a politically impartial basis. The organisation was...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...

Scope and Contents Annual reports, 1912-2007, publicity material, circa 1951-2004, minutes, newsletters, and correspondence, 2001-2007, of the Victoria League in Scotland. The Victoria League in Scotland was founded with the aim of promoting friendship and hospitality for commonwealth visitors to Scotland, focussing in the later years on international students in particular. Originally founded in 1907 as the Edinburgh branch of the Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship based in London, the Victoria...

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Records of the Saltire Society including minutes, reports and correspondence. The Society's aims are the strengthening and preservation of Scottish culture and tradition, and its archives reflect its numerous activities in these fields.

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Bound in a uniform series of volumes. The contents of Acc.11177/35-36 are photostats of the original reports. There is some overlap in the arrangement of the later volumes in the series.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Correspondence and papers of George McArthur Lawson (1906-78). From 1937 to 1940 he was a full-time National Council of Labour Colleges tutor in the East of Scotland, and served as the West of Scotland National Council of Labour Colleges Organiser from 1940-50 when he was appointed Secretary of Edinburgh and District Trades Council. In 1954 he was elected as Labour MP for Motherwell, and represented Motherwell, and Motherwell and Wishaw, until his retirement in Oct 1974. George Lawson served...

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Concerning Baxter's work as executor of Thomas Stevenson, his wife Margaret, and their son, Robert Louis Stevenson, with additional material relating to the literary estate of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Containing correspondence, memorandums, diaries and other papers.The main interest of the collection lies in the material to the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC), to the financing of small businesses, and in general to Kinross’s activities in the City of London from 1928 to the present day. In addition to formal business, the papers contain a significant quantity of private correspondence, and some interest diaries. All the papers carry useful and sometimes...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity which has been operating in Edinburgh since 1835. The Deaf and Dumb Congregation in Edinburgh began meeting together in 1830 following the establishment in the city of schools for deaf children. Braidwood’s Academy for the Deaf was established in 1760 and the Edinburgh Institution [later the Edinburgh Royal Institution] for the Deaf and Dumb in 1810.The Edinburgh Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society was established in 1835 to assist deaf people in...

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Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.

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Material produced by the Citadel Youth Centre, Edinburgh, relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014. Includes photographs, promotional material and workshop content from a ‘Creative Weave’ event led by Dr Priscilla Chueng-Nainby, held on 18 July 2014, in conjunction with Edinburgh’s Active Citizens Group. Also includes a copy of 2013 Annual Report of the Citadel Youth Centre.