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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 45 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.

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.

Papers of Janet Paisley.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 1(1)-Box 6(46)-was TD.3720
Scope and Contents

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: 1981-2017.

Papers relating to the climb featured in and the publication of 'Eiger Direct', by Dougal Haston, Peter Gillman and Chris Bonington.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14376/1-16
Scope and Contents The records here all relate to the climb made in 1966 of the north face of the Eiger. The purpose of the climb had been to establish an alpine style, direct route up the north face of the mountain. A team of British and American climbers (Chris Bonington, Mick Burke, Peter Gillman, John Harlin, Dougal Haston, Layton Kor and Don Whillans) attempted the climb in March 1966. The climb was troubled by bad weather and tragedy when a rope broke, sending Harlin to his death.There was...
Dates: 1966-2018.

Printed books, periodicals and sound recordings containing works by Alasdair Gray.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12900/1-14
Scope and Contents

Includes copies of various publications and sound recordings featuring works by or concerning Alasdair Gray.

There are also two LPs from Decemberism records which contain no material related to Alasdair Gray, but were presumably gifted to him after the release of their 'Some Gray stuff' (2006).

Dates: 1995-2007.

Private press vinyl compilation 7" EP produced by St Andrews University as a charities campaign record.

 Item
Identifier: UNLS040
Scope and Contents

The record was produced by St Andrews University (PR 5462) and features three Beat/Rock acts: Steve Hall And The Roosters; 20th Century Sounds; and The Black Ring.

Dates: [?1960-?1969.]

Private press vinyl LP record celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Tullis Russell Mills Band.

 Item
Identifier: UNLS033
Scope and Contents

The record was produced by Tullis Russell Paper Mill.

Dates: 1979.