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Collection name.. Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH)

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Co-ordinated by the British Library, the five year project, 2018-2022, saw audio processing hubs established throughout the United Kingdom, of which the National Library of Scotland was one. Each hub worked with institutions in its catchment area to process at risk analogue audio media. The original media were usually returned to the originating institution. Three copies of the digitised files were made: one for the originating institution; one for the British Library; and one to be retained by the audio processing hub.

Found in 39 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.

Collection of oral history recordings from the "Salt of the Earth: A Scottish Peoples’ History Project", co-ordinated by the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA)

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS006
Scope and Contents A collection of oral history interviews conducted over a period of three years from 1998–2001, with funding provided by the National Lottery Charities Board. The project collected oral histories through tutor led adult education initiatives and constructed a picture of life in 20th century Scotland from the perspectives of ordinary people. Over 450 people were involved in the project across 43 geographical locations, generating the oral history archive and also a book, four videos and a...
Dates: 1998-2001

Collection of sound recordings made by John Junner relating to his interest in traditional Scottish music.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS028
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of personal recordings predominantly made by John Junner, a teacher and Scottish traditional music expert and collector. It includes published, unpublished and broadcast material (including BBC Schools programmes). The Collection has a focus on the work of James Scott Skinner.

Dates: 1929-2009.

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.

Gaelic oral history recordings, Scottish folk music, and Gaelic psalm singing recordings from the Gairloch Heritage Museum Oral History, Gaelic Story and Song Collection.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS008
Scope and Contents

A collection of songs, music, stories and testimony from the Gaelic community.

Dates: 1960-2000.

Glasgow Unity Theatre audio collection, Scottish Theatre Archive.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS026
Scope and Contents

A collection of oral history interviews which focuses on the Glasgow Unity Theatre and its productions designer, Helen Biggar.

Dates: 1983.

Oral history interviews conducted and recorded by Neil C Rafeek and Hilary Young as part of their research for the book ‘The University Experience 1945-1975: An Oral History of the University of Strathclyde’ (2004).

 Series
Identifier: UNLS004
Scope and Contents This collection of oral history interviews with various students and members of academic and support staff at the University of Strathclyde formed part of the research material used by Callum G Brown, Arthur McIvor, and Neil C Rafeek to write a book entitled ‘The University Experience 1945-1975: An Oral History of the University of Strathclyde’. The interviewees discuss both their backgrounds and their experiences of teaching and working at the University of Strathclyde between 1945 and...
Dates: 2002-2003.

Oral history interviews conducted and recorded by Neil C Rafeek as research for his thesis, 'Against all the odds: women in the Communist Party in Scotland 1920-91: an oral history'.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS003
Content description

The collection focuses on the testimony of women involved in the Communist Party of Great Britain in Scotland from its inception to its demise.

Dates: 1994-1997.

Oral history recordings made by Franki Raffles as part of her project "Lot's Wife".

 Series
Identifier: UNLS031
Scope and Contents

The recordings were captured between 1992 and 1994. The interviews focus on immigrant Jewish women from the former Soviet Union who resettled in Israel.

Dates: 1992-1994.

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.

Scottish Life Archive Oral History Collection, National Museums Scotland (NMS).

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS007
Scope and Contents A collection of oral history interviews that were mainly conducted by National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland/National Museums Scotland social history curators between 1968 and 2009, covering subjects relating to their collecting, research and exhibition priorities. Interviewees were either donors of artefacts to the collections or employees of a particular occupational group which curators were researching in order to enhance the information available about related artefacts in the...
Dates: 1968-2002.

Scottish Ornithologists' Club Wildlife and Oral History Collection.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS009
Scope and Contents The collection includes: interviews with Scottish ornithologists; after dinner speeches, 1968-1981, made at the annual Scottish Ornithologists' Club conference; recordings relating to Fair Isle and the Scottish Bird Islands Study Cruise at the time of the International Ornithological Congress in 1966. The remainder of the collection comprises recordings of birds from various locations around Scotland, including St Kilda. Amongst the group represented here is a selection from a...
Dates: 1960-2005.

Scottish Poetry Library Audio Recordings Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS042
Scope and Contents

A collection of audio recordings from the Scottish Poetry Library consisting of various live performances and published recordings.

Dates: 1967-2008, or before.

Sound recording of Professor James Norman Davidson delivering a presidential address to the Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: UNLS014
Scope and Contents

The address by Professor Davidson concerns biochemistry, with particular reference to DNA and nucleic acid.

Dates: 1967.

Sound recording of the memorial service for Sir Hector James Wright Hetherington.

 Item
Identifier: UNLS013
Scope and Contents

The order of service is as follows: Organ music.- Hymn: Ye Holy Angels Bright.- Prayer.- Reading: Revelations 21, Psalm: 121 I Will Lift Up My Eyes Unto The Hills.- Reading: John 13.- Choir: Te Deum laudamus.- Eulogy.- Prayer.- Paraphrase: 61 Blessed Be The Everlasting God.- Prayer.

Dates: 1965.

Sound recordings, and transcripts, of media reports on the 'work-in' dispute, 1971-1972, at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS). BBC broadcast material.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS022
Scope and Contents

The recordings include BBC news items and special features covering the UCS 'work-in'. Interviewees include members of the Joint Shop Stewards Committee, and other workers.

Dates: 1969-1972.

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.