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Lectures.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Documents containing the text of expositions of a given subject delivered before an audience or class, especially for the purposes of instruction. (AAT) Use for all lecture texts and students' notes. Index also under the subject of the lecture, and under the names of the lecturer and student where known (but not under the university or other place where the lecture was delivered). (NLS) .

Found in 502 Collections and/or Records:

Introductory lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun: a series of lectures opening Aytoun's yearly courses., 1856-1864.

 File
Identifier: MS.4897
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Hardly any of the lectures are dated, but they were presumably delivered between 1845 and 1865, while he held the Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh. Apart from the introductory lectures in MS.4897 and a few miscellaneous lectures in MS.4912, they have been broadly grouped according to the threefold classification used by W E Aytoun himself; lectures on literature; lectures on language, style, and versification; and lectures on the principles of...
Dates: 1856-1864.

Lecture and description of slides for ‘Intro to Saga Tour’., 4th quarter of 20th century.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/755
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.

Dates: 4th quarter of 20th century.

Lecture and description of slides for the Jorvik Viking Centre., 4th quarter of 20th century.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/752
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.

Dates: 4th quarter of 20th century.

Lecture and description of slides on ‘Archaeology of the Bible Lands’., 4th quarter of 20th century.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/747
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.

Dates: 4th quarter of 20th century.

Lecture and description of slides on ‘For the Love of Birds’., 4th quarter of 20th century.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/750
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.

Dates: 4th quarter of 20th century.

Lecture and description of slides on ‘Lindisfarne’., 4th quarter of 20th century.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/753
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.

Dates: 4th quarter of 20th century.

Lecture and description of slides on the ‘Birds of Iceland’., 4th quarter of 20th century.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/748
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.

Dates: 4th quarter of 20th century.

Lecture and description of slides on ‘The Silk Road’., 4th quarter of 20th century.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/756
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.

Dates: 4th quarter of 20th century.

Lecture and description of slides on the ‘Treasures of Scotland’., 4th quarter of 20th century.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/757
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.

Dates: 4th quarter of 20th century.

Lecture notes, undated, on social geography in Marcel Hardy's hand., Early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.10628
Scope and Contents

The manuscript includes two lectures entitled 'Famine as related to a growing population' (folio 54), and 'Tropical colonies and dependencies of Europe' (folio 103).

Dates: Early 20th century.

Lecture of W Hiller, "The History of Polish Emigration in Great Britain".

 File
Identifier: Acc.8559
Scope and Contents

With list of books on the subject.

Dates: 1941.

'Lecture on ragged schools' by Thomas Guthrie.

 File
Identifier: MS.14236
Scope and Contents

The lecture is preceded (folio 1) by notes of its contents in another hand.

Dates: Mid 19th century.

Lecture on ‘The Place Names and Dialects of Atholl and Breadalbane’ by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson., [Before 1928.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.381
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: [Before 1928.]

Lecturers and sermons of George Reith., [?1886-?1941.]

 Series
Identifier: Acc.3564/34-71
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Dates: [?1886-?1941.]

Lectures and articles by James Campbell., 1895-1897, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.10260
Scope and Contents

The papers include: 'The tying and untying of a Celtic knot', a lecture to the Celtic Union, Edinburgh, 1895 (folio 1); 'The strength of the hills', a lecture to the Glasgow Gaelic Society, 1897 (folio 38); 'Amalgamated holdings in Scotland', a letter to the ‘Daily telegraph’, 1896 (folio 70).

There are also some genealogical notes on the Campbells of Lochnell and Bragleen (folio 111).

Dates: 1895-1897, undated.

Lectures and articles of Fanny Bullock Workman and Dr William Hunter Workman, 1897-1909.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13773/1-3
Content Description From the Collection:

Lectures, articles, photographs, miscellaneous papers relating to cycling and mountaineering activities. With trunks and articles of clothing.

Dates: 1897-1909.

Lectures and description of slides on Icelandic Sagas., 2000-2002.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/751
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.

Dates: 2000-2002.

Lectures and description of slides on ‘The Making of Vikings!’ and ‘Vikings!’, 4th quarter of 20th century.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/754
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.

Dates: 4th quarter of 20th century.