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Papers of Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley relating to the 51st (Highland) Division in the First and Second World Wars.

Collection

Identifier: Acc.7380/1-95

Scope and Contents

Maps, accounts, diaries, lectures and other papers, mainly concerning operations, 1942-1943, of the 51st (Highland) Division in North Africa and Sicily, together with a smaller quantity of associated post-war correspondence and some papers, 1918, concerning the Division in the First World War.

Dates: 1914-1976, undated.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Nigel Smith.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.14391

Dates: 1993-2020.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of part of the surviving business archive, or relating to the work, of Thomas Telford (1757-1834), engineer.

Series

Identifier: MSS.19969-19978

Scope and Contents The papers consist of business correspondence, draft reports, accounts and other papers relating to Thomas Telford's professional activities for the last decade of his life, as well as correspondence and some drafts relating to the 'Life of Thomas Telford civil engineer' itself. The business papers relate mainly to Scottish undertakings and to harbours, canals and fen drainage, with some personal and professional accounts. The collection is roughly half of the material which survived in John...

Dates: 1795-1838, undated.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Philip D Thomson relating to Hibernian Football Club.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.12436/1-50

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, annual reports, financial statements, fanzines and match day programmes, 1992-2005, of and relating to Hibernian Football Club collected by Philip D Thomson.

Dates: 1990-2005.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Professor John Erickson concerning the `Edinburgh Conversations`.

Collection

Identifier: Acc.13596

Scope and Contents Correspondence, memoranda and related papers, 1974-1997, concerning the ‘Edinburgh Conversations’ and Professor John Erickson`s involvement in them.John Erickson (1929-2002) was a British military historian and the West’s leading authority on the Soviet military during and after the Second World War. During the ‘Cold War’ he was one of the very few academics to earn the trust of both sides and a key channel for contact between the Soviets and the Americans.After...

Dates: c.1970s-1994

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Richard Dark.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.3617/1-17

Dates: 1815-1st half of 20th century.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Robert MacIntyre.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.12509

Dates: circa 1935-1995.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Samuel Beazley.

File

Identifier: Acc.9135

Scope and Contents

Concerning the building of Leys Castle near Inverness.

Includes correspondence, reports and accounts.

Dates: circa 1833-1842.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Scotland-UN.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.12735

Dates: 1979-2003.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Scottish PEN.

Collection

Identifier: Acc.14040

Dates: Circa 2001-2005.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Sir Harold Montague (Monty) Finniston.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.11424

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, lectures, reports and photographs.

Dates: 20th century.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Sir Robert Grieve.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.12049

Dates: 2nd half of 20th century.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of Sir Robert Grieve.

Collection

Identifier: Acc.13523

Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers, 1943-1964 mostly relating to his work as a town and regional planner, of Professor Sir Robert Grieve (1910-1995), Chief Planner, Scottish Office, 1960-4, Professor of Town and Regional Planning at Glasgow University, 1964-74, and the first Chairman of the Highlands and Islands Development Board, 1965-70. Many of the files relate to his work on the Clyde Valley Regional Plan (1944-6).

Dates: 1943-1964

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of the Bottomley and Barlow families.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.11263

Scope and Contents

Includes letters of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin and papers on cable-laying and building bridges.

Dates: 1836-1924.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of the Britain-Russia Centre, Scotland.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.12142/1-111

Scope and Contents The Britain-Russia Centre, Scotland, was founded in 1959 as the Scottish Branch of the Great Britain-USSR Association. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the branch became the Scottish Branch of the Great Britain-Russia Association, before becoming the Britain-Russia Centre, Scotland, in the later 1990s. The aim of the organisation was to promote understanding between the two areas through personal and professional contacts on a politically impartial basis. The organisation was...

Dates: 1962-1999.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division