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France. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 2.0000. Latitude: 46.0000.

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 94 Collections and/or Records:

Grand tour journal of Robert Campbell of Auchmannoch

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13919
Scope and Contents

The journal covers a Grand Tour through France, Switzerland and Italy untaken between 29 June 1829 and early August 1830.

Dates: 1829-1830

Journal of a continental tour of Andrew MacInnes.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13701
Scope and Contents Journal of a tour to France, Switzerland and Germany by Andrew MacInnes and `Richard`. At the back of the volume are accounts of expenses on the tour, mileages and a number of Scottish songs. The notebook is bound in a larger twentieth century volume together with a full transcript and a letter of 1928 of Andrew MacInnes, Saint William, Ontario, Canada, son of the diarist, to his nephew Clayton McCall donating the journal to him. Andrew MacInnes and his companion...
Dates: 1830

Journal of Margaret Aytoun.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7291
Scope and Contents

Describing a tour through Holland, Belgium, the Rhineland and Northern France.

Dates: 1840.

Journal of Sir Alexander Bannerman of Elsick, of tours in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, The Levant, Turkey and in Europe, with descriptions of yachting and sporting visits to Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13494
Scope and Contents The journal includes an eye-witness account of Napoleon III`s arrival in Paris in 1852. In 1853, Bannerman records visits to the Pyramids and Jerusalem and gives a detailed account of a Bull Fight in Cadiz in 1853. In 1861, Bannerman records visits to Constantinople, Athens and Malta.The accounts of foreign tours are interspersed with descriptions of several yachting expeditions, mostly starting from Cowes, to Ireland and Scotland but also to Europe. In 1854-1856,...
Dates: 1852-1867

Journalist's notebooks of Neal Ascherson.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13676/1-185
Scope and Contents The notebooks and engagement diaries cover Ascherson's career as correspondent for the Manchester Guardian (1956-57), The Scotsman (1959-60), Observer (1960-1975 and 1979-1990), and The Independent on Sunday (1990-1998), as well as his later career as a writer and academic. They contain descriptive notes relating to his research and reporting on international and home politics and affairs. From 1987, the notebooks also contain detailed personal diary entries.Ascherson's time as...
Dates: 1957-2013

Letter of Andrew Hay to John Hay of Alderston.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10961
Scope and Contents

Concerns the purchase of books in France and Holland.

Dates: 1699.

Letters and other papers, 1887-1920, of the Reid and King families, relating to the First World War and life in Australia.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13540
Scope and Contents Letters and other papers, 1887-1920, of the Reid and King families. The papers consist of an Army pay book, 1887-1893, of Private James Reid, 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; a letter from Andrew Reid to his parents, 16 December [1916], describing his experiences on the Somme front during the First World War; 2 letters, 6 January 1918, of Mary King (nee Reid) to her mother, and to her sister, sent from New South Wales, Australia; a photograph of Mary with her husband, Andrew...
Dates: 1887-1920

Letters of Angus Graham to his sister, Dorothy Vaughan Johnson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9390
Scope and Contents

Written while on active service in France and Egypt.

Dates: 1914-1918.

Letters of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13711
Scope and Contents Letters of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War, c.1915-1916.Letters and postcards of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders, and part of the British Expeditionary Force, c.1915-1916. Riddell, a machine gunner (number 9969), was captured and made a prisoner of war in 1914, during the early weeks of the war. He was captured at the Battle of Bertry, at which time around 500 Gordon Highlanders were taken prisoner. ...
Dates: 1915-1916.

[Map of the action of 13 December 1813, near Petite Moguerre]., 1813.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(81)
Scope and Contents From the Series: Some of the maps were acquired by General Sir George Murrary during his active service, others later for historical purposes. They are arranged as follows: Peninsula (numbers 1-88); France (numbers 89-95); uncertain locality (numbers 95-96); Canada (numbers 97-106); Flanders (numbers 107-133); various military actions, 1761-1846, and undated, especially those of 1813 (numbers 134-164). A list has been placed at the front of each volume; only the manuscript items have...
Dates: 1813.