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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.

Audio recording of an interview with Esther Breitenbach on Scottish feminist magazines for the Scottish Magazines Network, released in podcast form.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14489
Scope and Contents

Interview with Dr Esther Breitenbach on the print cultures of Scottish feminism, focusing on her work with the Scottish Women's Liberation Journal (1977-78) and MsPrint (1978-81). The interviewers were Scott Hames of the University of Stirling and Rachael Alexander of the University of Strathclyde.

The recording was released as part of a series of podcast interviews with Scottish magazine editors, writers, and publishers by the AHRC-funded Scottish Magazines Network.

Dates: 16 April 2021.

Circa 500 letters of Florence M Russell to Norman McLaren.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10639
Scope and Contents

With cards, drawings and photographs.

Dates: 1951-1976 and undated.

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 It includes published, unpublished and broadcast material (including BBC Schools programmes).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.

Correspondence and papers of Sir George Taylor, botanist, including diaries and photographs relating to botanical expeditions to Africa and the Himalayas.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9533/1-414
Scope and Contents Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...
Dates: 1792-1990.

Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert A Watson-Watt, including his collection of printed material concerning the history of radar.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9343/1-88
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence and papers concerning radar in World War II, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1951, and other activities and interests.

Includes photographs, articles and printed books.

Dates: 1909-1969, undated.

Correspondence, notes, photographs and audiotapes of Dr Alice G. Vines relating to her book `The MacDonald Women: Margaret and Ishbel`.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13629/1-21
Scope and Contents Correspondence, research papers, photographs and audio tapes, 1904-1994, of Dr. Alice Gilmore Vines (1923-2009) relating to her PhD thesis on Margaret Ethel Gladstone MacDonald (1870-1911) and Ishbel MacDonald (1903-1982), James Ramsay MacDonald’s wife and daughter.Dr. Vines collected this material in the course of her research for an intended biography of the two women. Over a number of summers she visited Ishbel in Lossiemouth and corresponded with her. Unfortunately, she had...
Dates: 1904-1994

Digital archive of Don Paterson, with two notebooks.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13339
Scope and Contents Since 2000, Don Paterson has done much of his writing directly onto his Apple Mac (and subsequent models), and his digital archive appears to contain most of his work – in diverse fields - back to that point. The development of the poems are charted through multiple drafts as he hones a work down to the essence. The prose, some of which seems to form the raw material for his collections of aphorism, is occasionally written at such speed that there is no attempt to correct typos or even spell...
Dates: 1995-2011

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.

Ledgers, notebooks, literary correspondence and audiovisual and printed material of Alasdair Gray.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13416/1-100
Scope and Contents Literary papers of Alasdair Gray, including ledgers and notebooks used for journal entries, drafts of letters and poems, working notes and illustrations. Literary papers and correspondence include material relating to 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2010) and 'Every short story' (Canongate, 2012). The collection of CDs and DVDs includes scans and drafts for these works as well as 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009).There is also a small collection of printed material, mostly...
Dates: 1909-2012.

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Names
British Broadcasting Corporation 21
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 3
MacCaig, Norman Alexander, poet, 1910-1996 3
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (Glasgow) 3
Wilson, Charles Haynes, Sir, Knight (Principal of the University of Glasgow) 3
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British Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Scotland 2
Church of Scotland 2
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 2
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 2
MacInnes, Hamish, mountaineer, b 1930 2
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 2
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 2
McLaren, William Norman, film director, 1914-1987 2
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 2
Prudhomme, Georges, Professor of Scottish Studies, University of Nantes, d 1994 2
Read, John (Professor of Chemistry, St Andrews University; science author) 2
Russell, Florence M, correspondent of W Norman McLaren, film director, fl 1936-1992 2
Scottish National Party 2
Tullis Russell (1809-) (Paper manufacturer ) 2
University of Glasgow, Library 2
University of Glasgow. Library 2
University of St Andrews 2
20th Century Sound (Band) 1
Aberdeen Art Gallery 1
Bonington, Christian John Store, Sir, Knight (mountaineer, writer and photographer) 1
Breitenbach, Esther (social researcher and historian) 1
Brotherston, William, 1913-1981 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Caterpillar Tractors Ltd (Uddingston, manufacturer of heavy plant and industrial equipment) 1
Commonwealth Writers, community of writers 1
Davidson, James Norman 1
Dickson, James Holms (Professor of archaeobotany and plant systematics, University of Glasgow.) 1
Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society 1
Edinburgh International Festival 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 1
Films of Scotland Committee 1
Findhorn Foundation 1
Foster, John 1
Gabrielsen, Geir Wing (Ecophysiologist) 1
Gillman, Peter (journalist and mountaineer) 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Gollan, John, General Secretary of the British Communist Party, 1911-1977 1
Gourock Primary School 1
Haldane, Archibald Richard Burdon, Writer to the Signet, 1900-1982 1
Haston, Duncan Curdy McSporran (mountaineer) 1
Hay, James Roy (interviewer of workers of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS)) 1
Hendry, Joy Mclaggan, Editor of 'Chapman', b 1953 1
Hetherington , Hector James Wright, Sir, Knight (Principal of Glasgow University) 1
Home, Alexander Frederick Douglas-, 14th Earl of Home and Baron Home of the Hirsel, Prime Minister, 1903-1995 1
Hont, István (Historian of economics and political thought at the University of Cambridge) 1
Junner, John (Teacher and authority on traditional Scottish music) 1
Kettle, Margot, biographer of John Gollan, General Secretary of the British Communist Party, d 1995 1
Lincoln, Carolyn Stewart, writer, b. 1943 1
Linguistic Survey of Scotland, 1948-?1985 1
Lyle, David W (Author of 'Images of St Andrews past' & 'Shadows of St Andrews Past') 1
MacDonald, Ishbel Allan, Labour activist, 1903-1982 1
MacDonald, James Ramsay, statesman, 1866-1937 1
MacDonald, Margaret Ethel Gladstone, socialist and feminist, 1870-1911 1
MacDonald, William (Captain, Royal Navy.) 1
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 1
MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin, writer and photographer, 1899-1970 1
MacIntyre, Robert Douglas, President of the Scottish National Party, 1913-1998 1
MacKenney, Linda (creator of the Scottish Theatre Archive.) 1
MacLauchlan, John (interviewer of workers of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) ) 1
MacNeacail, Aonghas, poet, b 1942 1
Macewen, William , Sir, Knight (Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Glasgow) 1
Mack, John A. (Criminologist, Director of Social Study, Glasgow University) 1
Magnusson, Magnus, scholar, broadcaster and enviromentalist, 1929-2007 1
McIlwraith, Maureen (novelist, pseudonym Mollie Hunter) 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Morison, Duncan M (musician) 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 1
Mylne, Christopher Kenneth (ornithologist and broadcaster) 1
National Museum of Scotland 1
OnFife Archives. Fife Archives. Fife Cultural Trust (Charity established by Fife Council in 2012 to provide Libraries, Arts, Museums, Galleries, Archives, Theatres and Cultural Partnerships Services) 1
Paisley, Janet Violet (poet and playwright) 1
Paterson, Don, b 1963 (poet and musician) 1
Perrie, Walter, magazine publisher, Edinburgh, b 1949 1
Raffles, Franki (photographer) 1
Read, Jan (scientist, film and television script writer, wine connoiseur) 1
Reid, Alastair, poet, b 1926 1
Reid, George Newlands, Lord-Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire, b 1939 1
Ritchie, Margaret (Criminologist, Lecturer in social administration and social work) 1
Royal Society of Edinburgh 1
Saltire Society 1
Scotia Review, literary journal 1
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 1
Scottish Civic Trust (Architectural heritage advocacy body) 1
Scottish Patriots, cross-party campaigning organisation 1
Scottish Poetry Library (Edinburgh) 1
Scottish Television Ltd, broadcaster 1
Shepheard, Pete (Springthyme Records owner and Founder member of Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland (TMSA)) 1
Shillabeer, Paul, photographer, fl 1948-1973: photographer 1
Silver, Robert Simpson (James Watt Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Glasgow) 1
Sinclair, William A 1
Skinner, James Scott (composer) 1
Soutar, William (poet) 1
Springthyme Recrords 1
Steve Hall and the Roosters (Band) 1
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 1
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