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Membership lists.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Lists or rolls of the collective body of members, as of a society, at a given time.

Found in 96 Collections and/or Records:

Records of the Edinburgh People's Festival.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14155/1-42
Scope and Contents The Edinburgh People’s Festival (EPF) was founded in 2002 by Colin Fox as a ‘more accessible and inclusive cultural alternative’ to the Edinburgh International Festival. It presented a series of plays, lectures, concerts, pageants, ceilidhs, and art exhibitions in different venues around the city of Edinburgh in August and throughout the year until 2018. The EPF was established in part as a tribute to the festival of the same name organised by the Edinburgh Labour Festival Committee,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1949-1954, 2003-2020.

"Records of the Literary Society of Glasgow, 1764-79. Transcribed from the Society's Minutes, 1830", by William James Duncan.

 File
Identifier: MS.3114
Scope and Contents Album containing.(i) Laws of the Society. (Folio 1.)(ii) List of meetings for each session, with the name of the speaker and the title of his 'discourse', November 1764–January 1771 (folio 3 verso). Occasionally the elections of new members or the names of absentees are recorded. 'There is a gap in the Records for the next 5 years, and the only information we have of their Transactions during the years 1771 and 1773 is from a loose jotting, of which the following is a...
Dates: 1764-1779.

Records of the Royal Highland Yacht Club

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14054/1-8
Content Description

Minutes, correspondence, lists of members, newsletters and journals.

Dates: 1970-2021.

Register of members, 1920-1938, with an index., 1920-1938.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13898/11
Content Description From the Collection:

The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.

The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.

Dates: 1920-1938.

Register of members of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., 1887, 1915.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21583
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates: 1887, 1915.

Register of members of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., 1927-1966.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21584
Scope and Contents

Includes lists, 1930-1935, of the committee of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians as required by the Companies Act.

Dates: 1927-1966.

Register of membership changes of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., 1926-1938.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21585
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates: 1926-1938.

Register of membership changes of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., 1938-1957.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21586
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates: 1938-1957.

Registers of members of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., 1887-1966.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21583-21586
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates: 1887-1966.

'Roll of Beadsmen or Bluegowns’ in Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.574
Scope and Contents

The roll, 1830-1863, states that ‘Each man receives one penny for every year of the King’s life’ (folio ii). James Penman, the last of the Bedesmen, is mentioned throughout, and his death in 1864 is recorded (folio 31 verso).

Dates: 1830-1864.

Transcription, circa 1894, of the minute books of the Edinburgh Skating Club, 1784-1893., 1784-1893.

 File
Identifier: MS.24643
Scope and Contents

A copy of the membership list follows the transcription (folios 141-148), with later additions up to the elections of 1939 (folio 148), and Directions and Inventory copied from the Minute Book for 1784-1888. Miscellaneous verses are transcribed from both original books at folios 158-172.

Dates: 1784-1893.