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Sound recordings.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Discs, tapes, filaments, or other media on which sound has been recorded.

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

Aberdeen City Art Gallery and Museums Oral History Audio Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS029
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1984-2004.

Assorted papers of Janet Paisley, including examples of her poetry, plays, short stories and monologues; with papers relating to her interest in the Scots language, and the history of Scotland., 1990-2012, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 2(1)-(9)
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This is a box list of the papers of Janet Paisley, as received by the Library. No attempt has been made currently to review the order of the papers, to date them or to otherwise interpret them. The aim of the box list is to facilitate access in advance of any fuller arrangement and description.

Dates: 1990-2012, undated.

Audio recording of an interview with Esther Breitenbach on Scottish feminist magazines for the Scottish Magazines Network, released in podcast form.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14489
Scope and Contents

Interview with Dr Esther Breitenbach on the print cultures of Scottish feminism, focusing on her work with the Scottish Women's Liberation Journal (1977-78) and MsPrint (1978-81). The interviewers were Scott Hames of the University of Stirling and Rachael Alexander of the University of Strathclyde.

The recording was released as part of a series of podcast interviews with Scottish magazine editors, writers, and publishers by the AHRC-funded Scottish Magazines Network.

Dates: 16 April 2021.

Digital archive of Don Paterson, with two notebooks.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13339
Scope and Contents Since 2000, Don Paterson has done much of his writing directly onto his Apple Mac (and subsequent models), and his digital archive appears to contain most of his work – in diverse fields - back to that point. The development of the poems are charted through multiple drafts as he hones a work down to the essence. The prose, some of which seems to form the raw material for his collections of aphorism, is occasionally written at such speed that there is no attempt to correct typos or even spell...
Dates: 1995-2011

Duncan Morison Audio Collection, Leabharlannan nan Eilean Siar / Western Isles Library Service (WILS).

 Series
Identifier: UNLS010
Scope and Contents

Coarse groove shellac discs which are part of the Duncan Morison collection held in Stornaway by the Western Isles Library Service.

Duncan Morison was a celebrated musican from Harris and Lewis, Western Isles. These recordings are of Morison performing a variety of folk material, including works written or arranged by himself.

Dates: Publication: 1929-1946.

Fife Archives oral history audio collection.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS041
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1993-1995.

Files of the Gude Cause project, relating to sound recordings., Undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13293/222-228
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Electronic archive, digital images, sound and video recordings, and related ephemera of the Gude Cause project, 2008-2010. The project’s main objective was to celebrate the centenary of the Women’s Social and Political Union procession which took place in Edinburgh on 10 October 1909. Furthermore, in the light of a report published before the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, Gude Cause sought to reenergize women’s participation in Scottish political life.The archive charts the...
Dates: Undated.

Outsize items of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland)., Circa 1975-2006, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12911/314-317
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.

Dates: Circa 1975-2006, undated.