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Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20005-20036
Scope and Contents

There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.

Dates: 1833-1925, undated.

Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.16407-16420
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.

Dates: 1759-[circa 1947.]

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 and papers of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee and Jewish, Colonial and Continental Mission Committees.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7548/A/1-G/99
Scope and Contents

The archive of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, 1929-64, together with much 19th and earlier 20th century material, and some items relating to Jewish and Continental Missions.

Dates: 1796-1991, undated.

Correspondence, papers, cuttings and photographs of David Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, mostly relating to his political career.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13477/1-278
Scope and Contents The collection comprises school papers, 1943-1959, and material relating to his time at Edinburgh University, 1957-1962; files relating to elections, 1961-circa 1990s; political papers, 1954-1981, mainly concerning constituency politics; manuscript diary of the Lib-Lab Pact, 1977-1978; files relating to his involvement in the Scottish Constitutional Convention, 1988-1998, including minutes of meetings and related correspondence; files relating to Scottish politics, 1992-1999, including...
Dates: 1895-2012.

Correspondence, reports, research notes and other papers of Dr Foster Neville Woodward, scientist and researcher.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9010/1-247
Scope and Contents Correspondence and research papers of Dr Foster Neville Woodward, Scientific Consultant, 1914-1985. Although there is some personal correspondence, the papers relate mainly to Dr Woodward’s scientific career, including his work as a scientific civil servant, 1930-1947, at the Chemical Defence Research Establishment, Sutton Oak, on chemical warfare and in particular on mustard gas, at the Ministry of Supply, Leamington Spa, on camouflage research, and at the Ministry of Production, where his...
Dates: 1914-1985.

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.

Gude Cause Archive.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13293/1-240
Scope and Contents Electronic archive, digital images, sound and video recordings, and related ephemera of the Gude Cause project, 2008-2010. The project’s main objective was to celebrate the centenary of the Women’s Social and Political Union procession which took place in Edinburgh on 10 October 1909. Furthermore, in the light of a report published before the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, Gude Cause sought to reenergize women’s participation in Scottish political life.The archive charts the...
Dates: 2006-2010

Minutes, accounts, and miscellaneous papers of the Edinburgh Skating Club.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.24641-24649
Scope and Contents The Edinburgh Skating Club was clearly well-established in 1784 when the first minute book starts. Apart from a few years of inactivity the Club flourished until the early 1900's when combined figure-skating declined in popularity. It was finally dissolved in 1966. Although the Club attracted a large proportion of its members from the legal profession, the Edinburgh Skating Club was not socially exclusive and the membership lists include local noblemen, merchants, army offers and a slater....
Dates: 1784-1966, undated.

Minutes, correspondence and other papers of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, mainly records of the Scottish Liberal Party.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11765/1-110
Scope and Contents

Minute books and other papers from the Edinburgh headquarters office of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, consisting mainly of older records of the Scottish Liberal Party prior to its union with the Social Democratic Party and the creation of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, and including records of the Scottish Liberal Club and the Scottish Reform Club.

Dates: 1855-1987, undated.

Minutes, correspondence, financial papers, photographs and other papers of the Scottish Craft Centre.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10729/1-51
Scope and Contents

Includes papers concerning the closure of the Scottish Craft Centre, the move from Acheson House in 1990, and the proposed Scottish Craft Council, 1991.

Dates: 1955-1991.

Papers of Magnus Magnusson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13542/1-1198
Scope and Contents This archive contains the papers of Magnusson Magnusson (1929-2007), broadcaster, scholar, author and environmentalist accumulated over the course of his career. After embarking on a career in journalism in the 1950s Magnusson moved into television in the-mid 1960s where he presented such programmes as "Chronicle" which was dedicated to achaeological discoveries. Magnusson may be best known for his role of quizmaster on the long-running BBC show Mastermind. Magnusson had a strong connection...
Dates: circa 1948-2006.

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

Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)

Papers of the Rev Alexander George Somerville.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12274
Scope and Contents

Papers mostly concern Somerville`s work, during 1969-1970, as Organising Secretary of the World Council of Churches Refugee Relief in Biafra.

Dates: 1946-1982.

Papers of the Scottish Far East Prisoners of War Association.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13613
Scope and Contents Minutes, membership lists, press cuttings and photographs, 1992-2007, of the Scottish Far East Prisoners of War Association, and papers relating to `Beyond the Bamboo Screen: Scottish Prisoners of War under the Japanese`, a book compiled by Tom McGowran, OBE.The Scottish Far East Prisoners of War Association was established in the years following the end of the Second World War. The Association’s purpose was to offer practical and emotional support to survivors of wartime...
Dates: 1992-2007

Papers of the Scottish Mountaineering Club and the Glasgow branch of the Junior Mountaineering Club of Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11538
Scope and Contents

Includes minutes, registers, climbing books and photographs.

Also includes mountaineering papers of prominent members of the Club, including Sir Hugh Munro, the Rev Archibald A Robertson, Joseph Gibson Stott and William Naismith.

Dates: 1889-2018.

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Correspondence. 27
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 16
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Lists. 4
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Audiocassettes. 3
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Leaflets. 3
Manuscripts. 3
Memorandums. 3
Publications. 3
Agendas. Administrative records. 2
Audiovisual materials. 2
Circulars. Fliers. 2
Documents. 2
Ephemera. 2
Journals. Accounts. 2
Membership lists. 2
Menus. 2
Newsletters. Serials. 2
Notebooks. 2
Pamphlets. 2
Periodicals. 2
Plans (orthographic projections). 2
Postcards. 2
Printed materials. Object genre. 2
Proofs. Printed matter. 2
Registers (lists). 2
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Videocassettes. 2
Visitors' books. 2
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Diaries. 1
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Fliers. Printed matter. 1
Guide Books. 1
Interviews. 1
Inventories. 1
Italy. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 12.8333. Latitude: 42.8333. 1
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Lecture notes. 1
Lectures. 1
Letter books. 1
Logs. Records. 1
Magazines. periodicals. 1
Maps. Cartographic materials. 1
Memoranda Book. 1
Microfilms. 1
Minute books. 1
Mountaineering. 1
Personal papers. 1
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Prisoners of War. 1
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Registers (lists) 1
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Scrapbooks 1
Scripts. Documents. 1
Second World War (1939-1945). 1
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English 35
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Scottish Liberal Democrats, political party 2
Scottish Liberal Party, political party 2
Bell, James Horst Brunnerman (mountaineer) (1896-1975) 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Scotland (CILIPS) 1
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Church of Scotland 1
Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh 1
Edinburgh Film Festival 1
Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society 1
Edinburgh International Festival Society 1
Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre 1
Edinburgh Playhouse Society 1
Edinburgh and Leith Consular Corps 1
Fox, Colin, b. 1969 (politician) 1
Franco-Scottish Society, Scottish Branch 1
Gimson, George Stanley, Sheriff Principal of Grampian, Highland and Islands, 1915-2003 1
Grieve, Robert, Sir, Knight (Professor Emeritus, Town and Country Planning, University of Glasgow) (1910-1995) 1
Hook, James (Dean of Worcester) (? 1772-1828) 1
Howie, William Lamond (chemist, mountaineer and photographer) (1846-1918) 1
Humble, Benjamin Hutchison (mountaineer and author) (1903-1977) 1
Jeffares, Alexander Norman, Professor of English Studies, Stirling University, 1920-2005 1
Junior Mountaineering Club of Scotland, Glasgow Branch 1
Kay, Katharine Cameron, painter and etcher, née Cameron, 1874-1965 1
Liberal Democrats, political party 1
Liberal Party, political party 1
Ling, William Norman (mountaineer) (1873-1953) 1
Magnusson, Magnus, scholar, broadcaster and enviromentalist, 1929-2007 1
McGowran, Tom, Secretary and Treasurer, Scottish Far East Prisoner of War Association, 1918-2001 1
McIntyre, Donald Bertram (geologist, mountaineer) (1923-2009) 1
McIntyre, Robert Douglas, President, Scottish National Party, 1913-1998 1
Naismith, William Wilson (mountaineer) (1856-1935) 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
Petrarca, Francesco, poet, 1304-1374 1
Piobaireachd Society 1
Raeburn, Harold Andrew (mountaineer) (1865-1926) 1
Republic of Venice, Major Council 1
Robertson, Archibald Eneas (minister at Astley Ainsley Hospital, mountaineer) (1870-1958) 1
Royal Highland Yacht Club, 1881- 1
Scottish Association for Mental Health 1
Scottish Craft Centre 1
Scottish Far East Prisoners of War Association, c.1945-2003 1
Scottish Library Association (SLA) 1
Scottish Mountaineering Club 1
Scottish Youth Hostels Association 1
Singleton, George, cinema proprietor, known as 'Mr Cosmo', 1900-1995 1
Small, Alexander Cunninghame Douglas (schoolmaster and climber) (1909-1995) 1
Social Democratic Party, political party 1
Somerville, Alexander George, missionary, 1917-1999 1
Steel, David Martin Scott, Baron Steel of Aikwood (politician, Liberal MP, leader of the Liberal Party) 1
Stott, Joseph Gibson (joint founder of the Scottish Mountaineering Club) (d 1938) 1
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 1
Waldensian Missions Aid Society, Scotland 1
Watt, Sir Robert Alexander Watson-, Knight, developer of radar, 1892-1973 1
Whitley, Henry Charles, Minister of St Giles', Edinburgh, 1906-1976 1
Woodward, Foster Neville, scientific consultant, 1919-1985 1
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