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Audiocassettes.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Cassettes of audiotape. According to international standards, the tape is usually 0.15 inches (3.8 millimetres) wide and can carry 4 to 8 tracks.

Found in 175 Collections and/or Records:

Outreach and collaborative production files of 'The war in heaven' by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin., 1995-1996, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12911/192-198
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: 1995-1996, undated.

Papers, 1846-1983 and undated, of and concerning James F Dickie, fiddler.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10389
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, photographs and music.

With letters and music, 1888-1924 and undated, of James Scott Skinner, and music, 1935-1968 and undated, of John Murdoch Henderson.

Dates: 1846-1983 and undated.

Papers and speeches on Baldernock Parish., 1974-2003.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/518
Scope and Contents

File includes 1 audio tape of speech.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1974-2003.

Papers concerning Trevor Royle, "James and Jim: a Biography of James Kennaway" (1983).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8551
Scope and Contents

Includes drafts, proofs, notes and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1980-1983.

Papers of Alan Bold.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10529
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and short stories, undated, and 180 letters, 1979-1990, to Bold on literary matters, including his "MacDiamrid; a Critical Biography".

Dates: 1979-1990 and undated.

Papers of and concerning O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11309
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, articles, broadcast talks and biography.

Dates: 1904-1988.

Papers of Archibald Ward Gardner.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10080
Scope and Contents

Includes music and poetry.

Dates: circa 1955-1989.

Papers of Kathleen Jamie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12107

Papers of Magnus Magnusson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13542/1-1198
Scope and Contents This archive contains the papers of Magnusson Magnusson (1929-2007), broadcaster, scholar, author and environmentalist accumulated over the course of his career. After embarking on a career in journalism in the 1950s Magnusson moved into television in the-mid 1960s where he presented such programmes as "Chronicle" which was dedicated to achaeological discoveries. Magnusson may be best known for his role of quizmaster on the long-running BBC show Mastermind. Magnusson had a strong connection...
Dates: circa 1948-2006.

Papers of Sir Harold Montague (Monty) Finniston.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11424
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, lectures, reports and photographs.

Dates: 20th century.

Papers of the Fifth Estate Theatre Company.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11443/1-131
Scope and Contents

Includes prompt scripts, scripts of unperformed plays, production photography and press cuttings.

Dates: 1965, 1981-1997 and undated.

Papers of the Reverend Prof Franz Hildebrandt.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9415
Scope and Contents

Includes theological and personal correspondence.

Dates: 1920-1985.

Papers relating to Harry Gordon, Scottish entertainer, including research of Marillyn Gray., 1937, 1949, undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12942/117
Scope and Contents

Includes: A scrap book of Harry Gordon's 'Daily Record' articles concerning his Transatlantic visit in 1949. Manuscripts of sheet music and the comic play 'Thunder over Inversnecky', broadcast April 1937. Audio cassette of Marillyn Gray’s spoken notes, researching Harry Gordon’s career; recorded in Aberdeen Central Library.

Dates: 1937, 1949, undated.

Personal and literary papers of Elizabeth MacLennan and John McGrath., 1971-1990, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10893/413-441
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.

Dates: 1971-1990, undated.

Personal and literary papers of John McGrath., 1971-1990.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10893/417-441
Scope and Contents

Aside from, though related to, his work with 7:84, John McGrath was involved in the study of political theatre, and was himself the subject of many articles, papers and dissertations. Much of the material listed in this section falls into this category, though there is also some that might equally well have been incorporated into the main 7:84 sequence, and vice-versa. There is some overlap with, and duplication of, items in the main sequence.

Dates: 1971-1990.

Photocopies of drafts of four radioscripts by Donald MacLeod of lessons on piobaireachd, with three cassettes of sound recordings by him.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10764/1-4
Scope and Contents

With three casettes of piobaireachd played MacLeod.

Dates: Circa 1960-1980.