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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This scrapbook contains photographs, press cuttings, membership cards, dinner menus mainly relating to the Edinburgh Borderers RFC in the 1920s and 1930s. There is some material dating from later years, including some loose correspondence.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...

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Newspaper cuttings documenting Pipe Major William Ross's activities, or of bagpiping interest, ca. 1928-1935. With a large section of photographs of family members and friends and some scenery.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...

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Margaret Anna Dalrymple, Lady Newhailes, was the first wife of Sir David Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Newhailes. The daughter of Sir Mark John MacTaggart-Stewart, 1st Baronet of Southwick, Lady Dalrymple was divorced from Sir David in 1919 and married Sir Patrick Graham Blake, 5th Baronet of Langham in 1925. She died in 1962.

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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 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...

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.