Highland. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland. Region. Longitude: -5.0000. Latitude: 57.6667.
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
14 volumes of press cuttings compiled by Dr Lachlan Grant concerning social conditions in the Highlands.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12187/1-14
Scope and Contents
Dr Lachlan Grant MD (1871-1945) was born in Renfrewshire, spent much of his youth in Argyll, and graduated from Edinburgh University in 1896. He took a Diploma in Public Health in 1911 and in 1921 became a Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. He was Medical Officer for Ballachulish and Kinlochleven, bacteriologist to Argyll County Council and consulting medical officer to British Aluminium, Kinlochleven. He came to note nationally as the founder of the Highland...
Dates:
1902-1993.
'A draught of the Firths of Tayne, Cromartie, [and] Inverness, wt ye true distances as yey do ly.' , [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 16)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
A map of Scotland, north of Glenmore in detail, and outline of the east coast to Dunbar, showing the courses of the chief rivers, and the positions of a few places., [?1636-?1652.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 2)
Dates:
[?1636-?1652.]
Cathenesia descripta ex magna ejusdem charta quam lustravit et descripsit Timoth. Pont. / Opera R. Gordonii ...'., 1642.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 9)
Scope and Contents
Imprint: mense Aprili, 1642.
Dates:
1642.
Circa 500 transparencies and prints of Scottish landscapes, largely the West Coast, Highlands and Aberdeenshire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10537
Dates:
1960-1988 and undated.
Commonplace book containing an anonymous account in verse of "A Tour of the Highlands in 1792".
Item
Identifier: Acc.12306
Dates:
circa 1792-1832.
Diary of a Free Church missionary in Lewis, Skye and the West Highlands.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9702
Dates:
1859-1863.
Illustrated travel journal of Samuel Jolly.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11734
Scope and Contents
Contains watercolours and pencil drawings of Scottish Highland scenery.
Dates:
1827.
Journal of an un-named law apprentice (later a member of the Faculty of Advocates).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11721
Scope and Contents
Details his life in Perth and Edinburgh, holidays in the Highlands and Skye, a trip to the Great Exhibition, London, and travels in the south of England.
Dates:
1850-1852.
Letter of Charles J Shore.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10264
Scope and Contents
Shore describes travels through the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
Dates:
1827.
Letter of George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, to the Lord President of the Privy Council, John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8037
Scope and Contents
Concerning the maintenance of ministers and schools in the Highlands.
Dates:
1658.
Manuscript map by Clement Lemprière entitled, "A Description of the Highlands of Scotland, the Situation of the Severeal Clans and the Number of Men able to Bear Arms, as also ye Forts Lately Erected and Roads of Communication, or Military Ways carried on by His Majesty`s Command..."
Item
Identifier: Acc.11104
Scope and Contents
Scale: circa five miles to one inch.
Dates:
1731.
Papers concerning estate management in the highlands.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5639
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
1. letter book, 1806-1824, concerning the Glenlyon Estate
2. accounts and papers, 1896-1914, concerning Barcaldine
3. ledger, 1848-1854, of Sir Alexander Campbell
4. index, 18th century.
Dates:
circa 1700-1914.
Part of the manuscript of David Stewart, "Sketches of the Highlanders of Scotland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5008
Dates:
circa 1821.
Photocopies of 15 letters of Seton Gordon to Paul C Spink.
File
Identifier: Acc.9176
Scope and Contents
Mostly on weather conditions in the Highlands.
Dates:
1964-1976.
Photocopy of journal of Nathaniel Phillips of Slebech, describing a tour through the Scottish Highlands.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8311-is now MS.50271
Scope and Contents
With typed transcript.
Dates:
1791.
Rental of the lands of Kintail, Lochalsh, Loch Carron, and others belonging to Seaforth made for Edwart Burt.
File
Identifier: Acc.8203
Dates:
1726.
Seven albums of coloured photographs of Skye and the Western Highlands
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13321
Scope and Contents
The photographs are largely views, particularly of mountains and seascapes. They were probably taken on a series of hostelling holidays in Scotland by train. Many of the photographs are taken from the train on the journey from Mallaig to Fort William.
Dates:
1937-1938, undated
Sketchbook containing pen, pencil and wash drawings of Highland landscapes, buildings and people.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10766
Dates:
1780.
Tours of Scotland and England by A L.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10285
Scope and Contents
Locations include: Edinburgh, Stirling, Glasgow, Loch Lomond, the Clyde canal, the English Lakes, via Hawick and Langholm and the Highlands.Account of 1785 tour to Edinburgh and around Glasgow begins at Berwick. The author travels with Mr Heron. Account of 1786 tour of the English Lakes accompanied by Mr Heron, Mr Ruddock and Mr Wilson, begins at Berwick.Account of the 1788 tour to the Highlands begins at Alnwick. The author travels to Edinburgh where he...
Dates:
1785-1788.
Typescript of an extended essay of James Bruce on the history of Highland roads and bridges.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10214
Dates:
circa 1980.
Wade collection of 19 maps and plans of the Highlands, Scotland.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10497
Dates:
circa 1725-1745.