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Papers on Scottish Devolution collected by Neal Ascherson and sent to the Institute of Governance, University of Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14136/1-4
Dates:
1950-2006.
Political papers of Sam Ghibaldan.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13669
Scope and Contents
Papers of Sam Ghibaldan chiefly relating to the Liberal Democrats in Westminster (1995-1997), including the Cook-Maclennan talks which led to the Blair government’s constitutional reform agenda; ‘Make Votes Count’, which was the pro-AV+ campaign in the electoral reform referendum that Blair’s government ultimately failed to hold; and the two Scottish coalitions (1999-2007).
Dates:
1996-2007
Proceedings and notes of arguments in the case of the Earl of Traquair, apparently in his own hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.3
Dates:
1641.
Research papers and analysis concerning migration between villages in the Faroe Islands and out of the Faroe Islands.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10942/1-69
Dates:
1942-1982.
Scripts of plays of Sean Hignett, and others, for television.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7573
Scope and Contents
With papers concerning Waverley Broadcasting Ltd.
Dates:
1971-1978.
Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.1.2-28.1.7
Dates:
1705-1773.
Six unrelated Scottish historical documents.
File
Identifier: Acc.11955
Scope and Contents
Contents:1 Copy of document setting up the Christian League, 1585 (with 19th century transcript)2 Losses of Aberdeen in the Civil War period, presented at the Convention of Royal Burghs, 16953 Reply to the Western Remonstrance, 1650, Perth4 Protest of the Supplicants against the Privy Council, 16375 Account of the Scots Corporation, ca.16956 Account of celebrations in Edinburgh on the anniversaries of the King`s birthday...
Dates:
circa 1585-1695.
Small collections of correspondence and papers of and to members of the Haldane family.
Series
Identifier: MS.20260 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Dates:
[Circa 1735]-1948, undated.
Statement of the case of the petitioners in the case of the 'Beacon' newspaper, in the hand of Walter Scott [?1821], with the printed 'Petition', 1821, and 'Answers' thereto, 1822.
File
Identifier: MS.126
Scope and Contents
Inserted at the beginning is an account of the circumstances in which Sir Walter Scott wrote this statement.
Dates:
1821-1822.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
Taylor Collection: papers relating to Scottish affairs.
File
Identifier: MS.68
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Notarial copy of the proceedings in the case of the magistrates of Elgin v the Procurator of the Church of Scotland, 1713. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Memorial concerning the opposition offered by the Bank of England to the draught of a warrant for a charter to incorporate the proprietors of the Scots Equivalent Debentures', 1719. (Folio 12.)(iii) Correspondence, 1719, of the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, on the prosecution of the...
Dates:
1713-1790.
Volume of topographical surveys.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume (somewhat out of order) are as follows:(i) a report of a survey of Loch Broom made in July 1793 (folio 1);(ii) a report, addressed to John Rennie, of the survey of Loch Bay made in May 1793 by John Baine (folio 23) which was given in to the Highland Society; (iii) John Mackenzie`s letter, 1798, forwarding the reports (folio 53);(iv) a copy of a report by Thomas Telford to Nicholas Vansittart, then secretary of the...
Dates:
1793-1801.