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Correspondence and other papers, including photographs, newspaper cuttings and a pamphlet, concerning Sailors' Walk House, Kirkcaldy, a sixteenth-century building.
Series
Identifier: MS.20761 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Scope and Contents
The papers were kept by the donor, Miss Gwendollyn Lendrum, secretary of the committee which prevented the house’s demolition, raised funds for its restoration, and ultimately transferred it to the National Trust for Scotland.
Dates:
1933-1953.
Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including papers and printed material of the Scottish National Party, PEN International and other political and cultural bodies.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6419 Box 1(1)-Box 108(3)
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and lectures.
With letters of and to various correspondents, including James Bridie, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Naomi Mitchison, and Edwin Muir.
And documents and correspondence concerning the SNP, PEN, the Saltire Society, and other organisations.
Dates:
1890-1973, undated.
Correspondence, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8950/1-41
Scope and Contents
Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.
Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.
Dates:
1895-1965, undated.
Letters, press cuttings, photographs and pamphlets concerning Tibbie Shiels.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9850
Dates:
circa 1878-1882.
Literary papers and speeches of Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond.
Series
Identifier: Dep.363
Dates:
Circa 1950-1983.
Literary, personal and political papers of James Kelman, with digital archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13471
Dates:
circa 1970-2012.
Manuscripts, correspondence, and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12765/1-42
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, publications and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie (1913–1998) and his family. Robert Blair Wilkie was the curator of the Old Glasgow Museum 1965-1998 (formerly known as the People’s Palace Museum). Active member of the Scottish Nationalist movement (joined Scottish Nationalist Association under John MacCormick in 1937), in 1945 he was the SNP candidate in West Renfrewshire, and in the following year he was appointed editor of the Scots Independent...
Dates:
1870-2001.
Papers and correspondence of Ronald W Clark.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9589
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, notes, manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, drafts, photographs, pamphlets and press cuttings.
Dates:
1948-1987.
Papers and correspondence of the Scottish Secretariat, and of Roland Eugene Muirhead.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3721/1-263
Dates:
1827-1963.
Papers of James Ramsay Macdonald and Bailie George Kerr of Glasgow.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13461
Scope and Contents
The papers provide an insight into the personal and political relationship between James Ramsay Macdonald (1866-1937) and Bailie George Kerr of Glasgow (fl.1860-1942) over a period of nearly three decades. They also illustrate the development of the early Socialist movement in Scotland, trade unionism and Glasgow local politics. As well as letters of James Ramsay Macdonald, the archive includes correspondence of prominent Socialists such as John and Katherine Bruce Glasier and leading...
Dates:
1895-1970s.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)
Dates:
1900-1977, undated.
Personal and political papers of John McDiarmid Airlie with printed papers and photographs of Robert McGregor Airlie and some printed songbooks and music.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13203
Scope and Contents
Personal and political papers, 1899-1953, of John McDiarmid Airlie (1886-19), Labour Councillor and Parliamentary candidate to Ayr Burghs, related to his involvement in the Trade Union and Labour movement.The collection includes some interesting correspondence from Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937) and from Labour Ministers of Fuel and Power Hugh Gaitskell (1906-1963) and Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker (1889-1982). It also includes some printed papers and...
Dates:
1899-1960.
Political, academic and personal papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, political academic and MP for Berwick and East Lothian.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13476/1-319
Scope and Contents
John Pitcairn Mackintosh (1929-1978) was a political scientist, professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and a Labour MP for Berwick and East Lothian (1966-1974, 1974-1978). He was pro-Europeist and pro-devolutionist and campaigned in favour of a yes vote during the 1979 Referendum on a Scottish Aseembly.The material consists of the personal and academic papers detailing Mackintosh’s political and academic career. The papers document his many academic ventures including his...
Dates:
1927-1978, undated.