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 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 116 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of the Reverend William Matheson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 1(1)-Box 14(10)
Scope and Contents

Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.

Dates: 1707-1977.

Papers of the Scottish Campaign for Resistance of the Atomic Menace (SCRAM).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11607
Scope and Contents

Includes research files, correspondence, reports and press cuttings.

Dates: 1970-1994.

Papers of Trevor Clark, colonial civil servant in Nigeria, Hong Kong and Soloman Islands.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12777
Scope and Contents

Includes research notes, photographs and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1940-1979.

Papers of W Angus Sinclair, Reader in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12573
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of publications and World War II counter-propaganda material.

Dates: 1912-1955.

Photographs and notes of printers` ornaments used in Scotland in the first half of the 18th century, compiled by David F Foxon.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10079
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence.

Dates: mid 20th century to late 20th century.

Preparatory notes of a "Times" review by William Mann.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10230
Scope and Contents

Concerns a production of Verdi`s "Simone Boccanegra" by La Scala at Covent Garden.

Dates: 1976.

Research, correspondence, papers and notes of John V Pearson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11495
Scope and Contents

Concern Pearson`s studies into media coverage of the Public Inquiry into the proposals to build an oil platform yard at Drumbuie, Ross and Cromarty.

Dates: 1973-1974.

Research notes and typescripts of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11589
Scope and Contents

Papers concern published works, and one unpublished work on Scottish castles.

Dates: circa 1968-1992.

Research notes compiled by the Reverened Clive L Rawlins.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9472
Scope and Contents

Concerning "William Barclay; the Authorized Biography" (1984).

Dates: circa 1984.

Research notes for the BBC Scotland television arts programme "Scope", by John Milligan.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11791
Scope and Contents

The notes concern work on Scottish artists and architects; includes 16 camera scripts for "Scope".

Dates: 1969-1973.

Research notes of Stephen Dodgson, c.1994-2004, for a biography of General George Wade.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13464- Inventory is available.
Scope and Contents

Research notes, c.1994-2004, of Stephen Dodgson compiled for ‘The Babe of Tangier: an enquiry into the life and circle of General George Wade’.

Dodgson’s biography of Wade was published in the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, volume 82, no. 330, Summer 2004. His research drew upon a range of sources, including the papers of J. B. Salmond, concerning Wade in Scotland (Acc.2796).

Dates: 1994-2004

Research papers, notes and email correspondence of Margaret Elphinstone relating to ‘The Gathering Night’ (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2009), with some printout drafts of sections of the novel.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13731/1-11
Scope and Contents Like many historical novelists, Margaret Elphinstone carries out extensive research on the subjects on which she plans to write. These papers demonstrate that she pursues her research to academic levels and beyond: corresponding with, and interviewing, experts in very specialised fields; reading widely; attending conferences and courses and - to some extent - trying to experience for herself what her characters’ lives would ‘feel’ like. The file headings alone indicate the depth and breadth...
Dates: Circa 2007-2008.

Research papers of Gael Turnbull for biography of John Macleod Campbell.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13324
Scope and Contents Research papers, c. 1989-1998, of Gael Turnbull for his biography of John McLeod Campbell. Gael Turnbull, poet and medical practitioner, took up this project after his retirement from medicine. John McLeod Campbell, Church of Scotland minister and theologian, was removed from the ministry after his preaching was determined to be inconsistent with the doctrinal position of the Westminster confession, which ministers of the Church of Scotland were expected to hold. Friends with...
Dates: 1989-1998.