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Papers of the Victoria League in Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13349
Scope and Contents Minutes, correspondence, newsletters and other papers of the Victoria League in Scotland (VL Scotland), 1941-2011.VL Scotland was founded with the aim of promoting friendship and hospitality for Commonwealth visitors to Scotland, focussing in particular in later years on international students. Originally founded in 1907 as the Edinburgh branch of the Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship based in London, VL Scotland later emerged to act as the governing body for the whole...
Dates: 1992, 2003-2011.

Papers of William Beattie, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10019
Scope and Contents

Includes:

minutes, 1970-1971, of the Executive Committe of the Scottish Central Library

notes, circa 1970-1972, on incunables, Aldis`s catalogue, and early Scottish printers

notes, ? 1974, concerning the early copyright accession to the Advocates` Library

correspondence and papers, 1936-1976 and undated, mostly on bibliographical topics.

Dates: 1936-1976 and undated.

Papers relating chiefly to the election of Scottish Representative Peers.

 File
Identifier: MS.1026
Scope and Contents

Some letters to Henry Dundas (Lord Melville), 1783-1807, unconnected with election, possibly indicate that these are part of the Melville papers. The papers consist of minutes of elections, lists of peers and their votes, protests, excerpts from ancient records, proposals as to methods of electing, and other papers.

Dates: [?1703]-1771, 1783-1807, undated.

Papers relating to the involvement of Professor Hugh Pennington with campaign groups Better Together and Academics Together during the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13614/1-4
Scope and Contents

Papers related to the involvement of Professor Hugh Pennington (Emeritus Professor Bacteriology, University of Aberdeen) with the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014, particularly with the campaign groups Better Together and Academics Together.

Dates: 2012-2014

Personal and political papers of Dr Robert Douglas McIntyre.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12917/1-134
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, publications and papers of Dr. Robert D. McIntyre (1913–1998).The collection contains political papers relating to Robert D. McIntyre’s political career, spanning from the early 1940s to his death in 1998.The collection contains many political documents (c.1940–c.1994) as well as Robert D. McIntyre’s and the Scottish National Party’s research papers and publications (1706–1994). Contained within miscellaneous research papers...
Dates: 1869-1997.

Personal and political papers of Rosemary Hall.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13491
Scope and Contents Rosemary Hall was born on 22nd April 1925 in Aberdeen. She spent her early life in Montrose where her father and uncle ran the family salmon fishing business. Hall began her schooling in Montrose. However, the outbreak of the war caused interruption and her school was evacuated to Speyside. She began her working life as a PA to a partner in a firm of accountants in Edinburgh. Although Hall gave up her job after marriage, she did not stop working; she was against nuclear power in all forms...
Dates: 1947-2010

Professional and personal correspondence and papers of Sir Alastair MacTavish Dunnett, newspaper editor and businessman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9179/1-244
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence and papers concerning personal and business matters, including papers of several Thomson Organisation companies, and of many Scottish public bodies including the Edinburgh Festival Society, the Scottish Tourist Board and the Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

Dates: Circa 1955-1985.

'Record of the Linnen Manufactory in Dunse, 1765’, i.e. Duns Linen Company.

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Identifier: MS.3707
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:Rules and regulations of Partnery (page 1);Minutes of meetings, 1765-1771, 1774 (page 14);A transfer of a share, 1766 (page 57);Invoices, 1767-1768 (page 60);Copies of out-going letters relating to dealings with William Tod & Company, London, 1768-1771 (page 66).Promoted in 1765 by neighbouring gentry and inhabitants of Duns with a view to the public benefit, the company was composed...
Dates: 1765-1774.

Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents

Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.

Dates: 1648-20th century.

Records of the Edinburgh and Leith Consular Corps.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13348
Scope and Contents

Records, 1949 - 2011, of the Edinburgh and Leith Consular Corps, comprising correspondence, agendas and minutes of committee meetings and annual general meetings, ephemera, photographs and two floppy disks.

Dates: 1949 - 2011.

Records of the Edinburgh People's Festival.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14155/1-42
Scope and Contents The Edinburgh People’s Festival (EPF) was founded in 2002 by Colin Fox as a ‘more accessible and inclusive cultural alternative’ to the Edinburgh International Festival. It presented a series of plays, lectures, concerts, pageants, ceilidhs, and art exhibitions in different venues around the city of Edinburgh in August and throughout the year until 2018. The EPF was established in part as a tribute to the festival of the same name organised by the Edinburgh Labour Festival Committee,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1949-1954, 2003-2020.

Records of the Findhorn Foundation.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9934
Scope and Contents

Includes minutes and correspondence.

Dates: 1968-1988.

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Subject
Correspondence. 133
Letters. Correspondence. 40
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 33
Photographs. 30
Reports 30
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Administrative records. 27
Financial records. 27
Accounts. 24
Reports. 23
Notes. 21
Copies. Derivative objects. 16
Lists. 16
Memorandums. 16
Drafts. Documents. 10
Manuscripts. 9
Programmes 9
Speeches. Documents. 9
Leaflets. 8
Typescripts. 8
Newsletters. Serials. 7
Pamphlets. 7
Publications. 7
Agendas. Administrative records. 6
Annual reports. 6
Business records. 6
Printed materials. Object genre. 6
Documents. 5
Excerpts. 5
Inventories. 5
Microfilms. 5
Posters. 5
Proceedings. Reports. 5
Scripts. Documents 5
Audiocassettes. 4
Diaries. 4
Legal documents. 4
Notebooks. 4
Rules. Instructions 4
Account books. 3
Cashbooks. 3
Circulars. Fliers. 3
Ephemera. 3
Invoices. 3
Journals. Accounts. 3
Lectures. 3
Letter books. 3
Periodicals. 3
Plans (orthographic projections). 3
Poetry. 3
Proofs. Printed matter. 3
Statements. 3
Subscription lists. 3
Agreements. Legal instruments. 2
Architectural drawings. 2
Articles. 2
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 2
Audiovisual materials. 2
Brochures. 2
Ciphers. Codes. 2
Circular letters. 2
Dispatches. 2
Extracts. 2
Financial statements. 2
Histories. 2
Instructions. Document genre. 2
Interviews. 2
Lecture notes. 2
Legislative acts. Legislative records. 2
Maps. Cartographic materials. 2
Membership lists. 2
Memoirs. 2
Memoranda Book. 2
Menus. 2
Minute books. 2
Newspapers. 2
Obituaries. 2
Photocopies. 2
Politics. 2
Postcards. 2
Proposals. 2
Publishers and publishing. 2
Registers (lists) 2
Registers (lists). 2
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 2
Sermons 2
Synopses. 2
Transcripts 2
Translations. Documents. 2
Treatises. 2
Videocassettes. 2
Visitors' books. 2
Warrants. Permissions. 2
Abstracts. Summaries. 1
Advertisements. 1
Albums. 1
Annotations. 1
Antimilitarism 1
Antinuclear movement 1
Autographs (manuscripts). 1
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Language
English 148
Undetermined 23
Multiple languages 3
Danish 1
French 1
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Names
Saltire Society 6
Scottish National Party 5
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 5
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 4
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society 3
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Porteous, James A A, author of "Scotland and the South", fl 1929-1970 3
Scottish Covenant Association, Scottish Convention 3
Dunnett, Sir Alastair MacTavish (Journalist and newspaper editor) 2
Edinburgh Film Festival 2
Edinburgh International Festival Society 2
Findhorn Foundation 2
Grieve, Robert, Sir, Knight (Professor Emeritus, Town and Country Planning, University of Glasgow) (1910-1995) 2
National Council of Labour Colleges 2
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association 2
Scottish Liberal Democrats, political party 2
Scottish Liberal Party, political party 2
Scottish Working People's History Trust 2
Wardie Bowling Club, Edinburgh 2
7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland) 1
Academics Together (pro-union campaign organisation, Scotland.) 1
Associated Shipwrights Society, Leith Branch 1
Ayrshire Miners' Union, -1944 1
Beattie, William, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1903-1986 1
Better Together Aberdeenshire (Local pro-union campaign organisation, Scotland) 1
Bible Board, Scotland, HM Sole and Only Master Printers 1
Border Counties Co-operative Conference Association 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Catherine McCaig's Trust 1
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Scotland (CILIPS) 1
Church of Scotland 1
Church of Scotland, Overseas Department 1
Company of Scottish History Ltd, publisher 1
Conference of Scottish Medieval Historical Research 1
Conference of Scottish Medievalists 1
Cromarty Estate 1
Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1599-1658 1
Còisir Dhùn Èideann 1
Democracy for Scotland, political pressure group 1
Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh 1
Donaldson, Arthur William (chairman of the Scottish National Party) 1
Drummond, John David, 17th Earl of Perth, 1907-2002: collector 1
Dunbartonshire Conservative and Unionist Association 1
Dunnett, Sir Alastair MacTavish, Knight, journalist and newspaper editor, 1908-1998 1
Edinburgh Christian Council for Overseas Students 1
Edinburgh District Labour Party 1
Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, newspaper 1
Edinburgh Film Guild 1
Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society 1
Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre 1
Edinburgh Playhouse Society 1
Edinburgh Printing and Kindred Trades Employers' Association 1
Edinburgh Saltire Gaelic Choir 1
Edinburgh and District Trades Council 1
Edinburgh and Leith Consular Corps 1
Engender (1992-) (women's rights organisation, Scotland) 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 1
Ewing, Winifred Margaret, politician, SNP MP, MSP, b. 1929 1
Family Care, voluntary social work agency 1
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
Farquhar, Ronald Middleton, Minister of Monigaff, 1929-1986 1
Films of Scotland Committee 1
Fox, Colin, b. 1969 (politician) 1
Franco-Scottish Society of Scotland 1
Galliard Publishing Ltd 1
Guild of Insurance Officials, Edinburgh Branch 1
Hardy, Henry Forsyth (film critic) 1
Harper, James Walker, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1859-1938 1
Highland Society of London 1
Hownam and Border Angling Club 1
Independent Labour Party, Edinburgh Central Branch 1
Innerleithen Co-operative Society, 1854-1969 1
Jeffares, Alexander Norman, Professor of English Studies, Stirling University, 1920-2005 1
Kay, Helen (Historian and independent researcher) (b.1945) 1
Kay, Katharine Cameron, painter and etcher, née Cameron, 1874-1965 1
Liberal Democrats, political party 1
Liberal Party, political party 1
Library and Information Services Council (Scotland) (LISC(S)) 1
Lothian Celtic Choir 1
MacDougall, Ian, Honorary Secretary, Scottish Labour History Society, b 1933 1
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 1
MacIntyre, Robert Douglas, President of the Scottish National Party, 1913-1998 1
Magnusson, Magnus, scholar, broadcaster and enviromentalist, 1929-2007 1
Master Printers' Association, Edinburgh Branch 1
McIntyre, Robert Douglas, President, Scottish National Party, 1913-1998 1
McLetchie, David William, WS, Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, b 1952 1
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 1
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 1
Murray, David, journalist, writer and broadcaster, fl 1934-1972 1
National League of the Blind, Edinburgh Branch 1
National Party of Scotland 1
National Union of Mine Workers, Scottish Area 1
National Union of Mineworkers, Scottish Area, Ayrshire District, 1945- 1
National Union of Public Employees, Scottish Region 1
National Union of Scottish Mineworkers, Ayrshire Area, 1944-1945 1
New Club, North Berwick, golf club 1
Newbattle Abbey College, adult education institution 1
North Berwick Golf Club 1
Pack, Donald Cecil, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, b 1920 1
Pennington, Thomas Hugh, Professor (bacteriologist and academic.) 1
Piobaireachd Society 1
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