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Account of the experiences of Alpin MacGregor, 1st Gordon Highlanders, as a Prisoner of War, and notes on interviews conducted by his father, Rev Duncan MacGregor, with soldiers repatriated to Holland.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13710
Scope and Contents Account of the experiences of Alpin MacGregor, 1st Gordon Highlanders, as a Prisoner of War, 1918, and notes on interviews conducted by his father, Rev Duncan MacGregor, with soldiers repatriated to Holland, early 1918.Alpin MacGregor was a Sergeant Major in the 1st Gordon Highlanders. In the regular army when the First World War broke out, MacGregor`s was amongst the first battalions to form the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914. In the retreat following the battle at...
Dates: 1918

Audio recordings of a radio programme, 1981, concerning William Johnstone and an associated interview, undated, with him.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.7936(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents

The tapes were produced by the BBC.

Dates: 1981 and undated.

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.

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.

Gaelic oral history recordings, Scottish folk music, and Gaelic psalm singing recordings from the Gairloch Heritage Museum Oral History, Gaelic Story and Song Collection.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS008
Scope and Contents

A collection of songs, music, stories and testimony from the Gaelic community.

Dates: 1960-2000.

Glasgow Unity Theatre audio collection, Scottish Theatre Archive.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS026
Scope and Contents

A collection of oral history interviews which focuses on the Glasgow Unity Theatre and its productions designer, Helen Biggar.

Dates: 1983.

Oral history interviews conducted and recorded by Neil C Rafeek and Hilary Young as part of their research for the book ‘The University Experience 1945-1975: An Oral History of the University of Strathclyde’ (2004).

 Series
Identifier: UNLS004
Scope and Contents This collection of oral history interviews with various students and members of academic and support staff at the University of Strathclyde formed part of the research material used by Callum G Brown, Arthur McIvor, and Neil C Rafeek to write a book entitled ‘The University Experience 1945-1975: An Oral History of the University of Strathclyde’. The interviewees discuss both their backgrounds and their experiences of teaching and working at the University of Strathclyde between 1945 and...
Dates: 2002-2003.

Oral history interviews conducted and recorded by Neil C Rafeek as research for his thesis, 'Against all the odds: women in the Communist Party in Scotland 1920-91: an oral history'.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS003
Content description

The collection focuses on the testimony of women involved in the Communist Party of Great Britain in Scotland from its inception to its demise.

Dates: 1994-1997.

Photocopy of letter, 1856, of David Livingstone.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11642
Scope and Contents

Letter concerns a debt owed to the recipient`s (identified only as Welsh) brother. Includes a summary of interview, 1948, by Michael Kittermaster with Alumana, a headman in Zambia, on his meeting with Livingstone in 1873.

Dates: 1856 and 1948.

Record of interview between Emperor William II of Germany and Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, with other related papers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4171
Scope and Contents A small collection of papers and photographs, relating to an interview in 1929 by Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, diplomat and author (1887-1970), with the ex-Kaiser of Germany, Wilhelm II, and to a subsequent visit, 1939, to the Kaiser and his wife at Doorn, in the Netherlands.The contents are as follows:1. A paper headed, ' "D". Second Interview with the Kaiser, 1929. Written by himself.' The questions put to Wilhelm II (in typescript) were submitted by Bruce...
Dates: 1929, 1939.

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British Broadcasting Corporation 14
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 4
Prudhomme, Georges, Professor of Scottish Studies, University of Nantes, d 1994 3
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (Glasgow) 3
Bonaparte, Napoleon, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 2
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Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 2
Gál, Hans, composer, 1890-1987 2
MacCaig, Norman Alexander, poet, 1910-1996 2
MacDougall, Ian, Honorary Secretary, Scottish Labour History Society, b 1933 2
MacInnes, Hamish, mountaineer, b 1930 2
Rafeek, Neil C (author of 'Communist women in Scotland') 2
Reid, George Newlands, Lord-Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire, b 1939 2
Scottish National Party 2
Scottish Television Ltd, broadcaster 2
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Gordon Highlanders, 1st Battalion 1
Biggar, Helen Manson (sculptor, film-maker, theatre designer, and political activist) 1
Brotherston, William, 1913-1981 1
Brown, George Douglas, author, 1869-1902 1
Böll, Heinrich, author, 1917-1985 1
Caddy, Peter, Co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation, 1917-1994 1
Calder, Robert Russell, critic and poet, b 1950 1
Caterpillar Tractors Ltd (Uddingston, manufacturer of heavy plant and industrial equipment) 1
Communist Party of Great Britain (1920-1988) 1
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 1
Duncan, Andrew, poet, b 1956 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Fortescue, Hugh, 2nd Earl Fortescue, politician, 1783-1861 1
Foster, John 1
Fyfe, Christopher Hamilton, historian, 1920-2008 1
Gabrielsen, Geir Wing (Ecophysiologist) 1
Gairloch Heritage Museum 1
Glasgow Unity Theatre 1
Gollan, John, General Secretary of the British Communist Party, 1911-1977 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Haldane, Archibald Richard Burdon, Writer to the Signet, 1900-1982 1
Hay, James Roy (interviewer of workers of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS)) 1
Hendry, Joy Mclaggan, Editor of 'Chapman', b 1953 1
Home, Alexander Frederick Douglas-, 14th Earl of Home and Baron Home of the Hirsel, Prime Minister, 1903-1995 1
Horner, Francis, politician, 1778-1817 1
Jeffs, Tim, painter, 1904-1975 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Jones, Griffith Rhys, comedian, actor and television presenter, b 1953 1
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 1
Kettle, Margot, biographer of John Gollan, General Secretary of the British Communist Party, d 1995 1
Lindsay, Maurice (poet and writer) 1
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 1
Lockhart, Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce, Knight, diplomatist, 1887-1970 1
Lorimer, Robert Lewis Campbell, publisher, 1918-1996 1
MacGregor, Alpin, Sergeant Major, 1st Gordon Highlanders, 1883- 1
MacGregor, Duncan, Church of Scotland minister, 1854-1923 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
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 1
Magnusson, Magnus, scholar, broadcaster and enviromentalist, 1929-2007 1
Malcolm, Sir Pulteney, Knight, Admiral, 1768-1838 1
Marshak, Samuil Iakovlevich , poet and translator, 1887-1964 1
Menzies, William, friend of George Douglas Brown, author, d c 1951 1
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994 1
Muggeridge, Thomas Malcolm, journalist and broadcaster, 1903-1990 1
Mylne, Christopher Kenneth (ornithologist and broadcaster) 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
Orr, Robert Kemsley, composer, 1909-2006 1
Perrie, Walter, magazine publisher, Edinburgh, b 1949 1
Primrose, Archibald John, 4th Earl of Rosebery, politician, 1783-1868. 1
Railton, Douglas, Skye, writer, fl 1972 1
Read, Jan (scientist, film and television script writer, wine connoiseur) 1
Read, John (Professor of Chemistry, St Andrews University; science author) 1
Reid, Alastair, poet, b 1926 1
Reith, John Charles Walsham, 1st Baron Reith (created 1940), Director-General of the BBC, 1889-1971 1
Royle, Trevor Bridge (broadcaster and author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh) (b 1945) 1
STV Central Ltd, broadcaster 1
Silver, Robert Simpson (James Watt Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Glasgow) 1
Sinclair, William A 1
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 1
Sykes, Janet Inglis (née Hutchinson, lecturer and artist. known as 'Bunny') 1
Trumbull, Fred (Sound Recordist) 1
Trumbull, Virginia (Sound Recordist) 1
Tullis Russell (1809-) (Paper manufacturer ) 1
University of Glasgow, Library 1
University of St Andrews 1
University of Strathclyde 1
Watt, Sir Robert Alexander Watson-, Knight, developer of radar, 1892-1973 1
William II, Emperor of Germany, 1859-1941 1
Williams, Peter Frederic, musicologist and organist, b 1937 1
Woolfson, Charles (lecturer in the Department of Social and Economic Research, University of Glasgow) 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 1
Young, Hilary (oral historian) 1
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