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Testimonies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Solemn declarations, usually made orally by a witness under oath in response to interrogation by a lawyer or authorized public official, reduced to writing.

Found in 8 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.

Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates: 17th century-19th century.

Private letters, and reports of inquiries and statements of officers vindicating themselves, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1074
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Private letters, 1814-1815, to Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane from officers under his command or co-operating with him while he was Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station (MS.2327);

Reports of inquiries and statements of officers vindicating themselves, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station, 1814-1815 (MS.2331).

Dates: 1814-1815.

Sound recordings from the Linda MacKenney Audio Collection, Scottish Theatre Archive, of interviews by MacKenney with people prominent in Scottish theatre during the 1930s and 1940s.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS025
Scope and Contents

A collection of interviews recorded by Linda MacKenney mostly in Scotland, but also the wider United Kingdom, between 1982 and 1985.

The collection focuses on people connected with Scottish theatre during the 1930s and 1940s. It also focuses on the creation and disbandment of important amateur theatre groups in Glasgow around the time of the Second World War, and the political climate of Scotland at that time.

Dates: 1967-1985.

'Summary rehearsall of the principles of W.B., concerning our controversies, by way of testimony, draun up att Groning, Apryl, 1683', with an addition written in August 1683, by William Boyd.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3815
Scope and Contents

The writer, William Boyd, then at the University of Groningen and a member of the Remnant there, was afterwards Minister of Dalry in Galloway. He states his position with regard to the controversies, chiefly on obedience to the civil Government, described in Michael Shields, ‘Faithful contendings displayed’ (in which he is mentioned on pages 87-88, 91, 99, 131), and refers especially to the secession of James Russell, one of the slayers of Archbishop Sharp.

Dates: 1683.