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These volumes include newspaper cuttings, proofs for Hansard, electoral addresses, and political cartoons.

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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.

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The scrapbooks cover the period from December 1943 to August 1945. They consist of 36 notebooks in which Roth has written short notes on the progress of the war, illustrated with press cuttings he had collected.

Although it is not clear why Roth began to keep a daily record of events occurring during the war, he had an interest in military history, and keeping a record of the war on a daily basis helped to develop his knowledge of geography.

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The scrapbooks contain letters, circulars, verse, press-cuttings, burgess-tickets, stamps, bank-notes, and miscellaneous papers of and relating to the Greenshields family. In particular, the scrapbooks reflect John Blackwood Greenshield's interest in antiquarian matters and local politics.

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This series contains two original bound scrapbooks created by John Hinde to record his time as Chief Expeditions Officer on the training schooner, 'Captain Scott'. Scrapbooks primarily contain press cuttings and ephemera, with volume I also including some loose enclosures in the form of photographs, letters, notes, and ephemera. For ease, these loose items have been housed seperately in a folder alongside the volume.

Scope and Contents Covering over ten years, the scrapbooks provide an insight into the social and domestic life of a wealthy young woman of the time. The volumes consist largely of photographs many probably taken by Lady Newhailes, and autographs of family and friends, photographs and water-colour drawings of Lady Newhailes's homes at Ardwell and Newhailes, and country houses visited in Scotland and England. With programmes and tickets for various sporting and social occasions pasted in. MS.25677 relates...

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Two scrapbook volumes containing newspaper cuttings and photographs of Pipe Major William Ross and his family. The volumes were compiled by Ross's wife Edith Mary, née McGregor (d. 1942). They illustrate Ross's activities and public appearances, for example at Highland games and society weddings, but also follow reports on piping more generally. Photographs of family and friends are found in both volumes, especially the second.

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...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...

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The scrap-book contains a painting and woodcuts by Joseph Crawhall (given to John A Hipkins by Charles Keene); original drawings by Birket Foster, Harrison Weir, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, J F Sullivan, John A Hipkins himself, and others; a painting by Edith J Hipkins (page 64); illustrations cut out of Punch and other reproductions; and Valentines, letters, etc., addressed to Miss Hipkins.

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Contains versions of the rules and constitution, studies of the history of the Society, photographs, newspaper cuttings and two printed works sent to the Society.

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Two scrapbooks, 1950-1952, compiled by Bruce Sharman, then a young actor and assistant stage manager with the Citizens` Theatre Company. He was involved in the Company`s Festival productions of `The Atom Doctor`, `Douglas` and `The Queen`s Comedy` in 1950, and their `Three Estates` in 1951. Bruce Sharman returned to the Festival in 1952 and 1953 with The Old Vic Company. The scrapbooks contain programmes, posters, photographs, reviews and ephemera.