Scope and Contents From the Collection: Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity which has been operating in Edinburgh since 1835. The Deaf and Dumb Congregation in Edinburgh began meeting together in 1830 following the establishment in the city of schools for deaf children. Braidwood’s Academy for the Deaf was established in 1760 and the Edinburgh Institution [later the Edinburgh Royal Institution] for the Deaf and Dumb in 1810.The Edinburgh Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society was established in 1835 to assist deaf people in...

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The correspondence and papers include material concerning Bencoolen, Goa, Iran, Sind, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Tahiti, various surveys, and literary and scientific subjects.

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The correspondence and papers include material concerning Bencoolen, Goa, Iran, Sind, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Tahiti, various surveys, and literary and scientific subjects.

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The correspondence and papers include material concerning Bencoolen, Goa, Iran, Sind, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Tahiti, various surveys, and literary and scientific subjects.

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The correspondence and papers include material concerning Bencoolen, Goa, Iran, Sind, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Tahiti, various surveys, and literary and scientific subjects.

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The correspondence and papers include material concerning Bencoolen, Goa, Iran, Sind, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Tahiti, various surveys, and literary and scientific subjects.

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The correspondence and papers include material concerning Bencoolen, Goa, Iran, Sind, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Tahiti, various surveys, and literary and scientific subjects.

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During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.

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The proofs and pages relate to the article published in "The Century Magazine", volume 63, number 2, pages 221-237, December 1901.

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This series contains press, awards, and other papers relating to the reputation of Ian Rankin, regarding his career as a writer and his personal life.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School. His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...

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This series is comprised of items in the Robert Boothby papers which he deemed important enough to keep and which do not fit within other series in the collection. Many of these items are of a personal nature for Boothby like the items about his father’s death. Others were collected by Lady Wanda Boothby about Robert Boothby, even after his death.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884. Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The papers chiefly refer to James Stuart's stay in India as an officer (later Commander-in-Chief) of the forces of the East India Company based at Fort St George (Madras). The most detailed portions of the papers cover the year immediately prior to Stuart's dismissal from the Company's service in 1783. Stuart appears to have retained these papers as justification of his actions and as a defence against accusations of inefficiency. He made different sets of copies of much of his...

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This series contains papers relating to the journalistic activities of Ian Rankin. Included, in manuscript, typescript or published format, are articles, reviews, interviews, and obituaries written by Rankin. Some working notes of Rankin are included, and also some papers concerning the administrative aspects of his journalistic engagement.

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: Kathleen Jamie was born in Johnstone in 1962, and studied at the University of Edinburgh. These papers date from the period 1988 to 1997. During this time, Kathleen Jamie was writer in residence to various organisations, including the Workington Docks Project and the University of Dundee, and was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Scottish-Canadian Fellowship in 1994. The collection includes papers relating to the following published or broadcast works:The Golden Peak (London:...

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Correspondence, drafts, notes, and working papers of Philip D Thomson of and concerning '100 Years of Hibs' (Edinburgh, 1975), being the centenary history of Hibernian Football Club co-written with Gerald Docherty. With circa 1000 Hibernian Football Club match programmes, photographs, 27 scrapbooks, fanzines and epherma, 1933-93, of and relating to Hibernian FC and Scottish football in general.

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These papers relate to the period spent by Johnston as Colonel Commdandant of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical engineers. This has been placed within his military career despite most of the material dating beyond his active military service. This is due to it still being a military appointment albeit an honorary position and does not fit within his civilian career.

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Press cuttings are arranged chronologically.

Includes three issues of ‘War Machine’ magazine. Folios 20-55.

Scope and Contents Press cuttings, 1984-2000. Folios 1-94.The newspaper and magazines cuttings are arranged by topic. Within each topic, the articles are arranged chronologically, with those undated at the end of each topic.Other crime. Folios 1-64. Police. Folios 65-75. Other. Folios 76-94.Printouts, undated, from various books on the history of Edinburgh. Folios 95-116.Leaflet, undated, ‘Crime and Punishment : An exhibition of documents from the national...

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The newspaper and magazines cuttings and print outs are arranged by topic. Within each topic, the articles are arranged chronologically, with those undated at the end of each topic.

Gangs and gang-related crime. Folios 1-19. Drugs and drug-related crime. Folios 20-43. War crimes. Folios 44-53. World's End murders, and murderer Angus Sinclair. Folios 54-65. The Lockerbie disaster. Folios 66-70. The disappearance of Arlene Fraser. Folios 71- 81.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This series contains manuscripts and typescripts of, and associated working papers for, novels, novellas and graphic novels by Ian Rankin. The working papers include, variously, synopses, research material, development notes, and evidence of editorial interventions. With these also are papers relating to the process of publication: some administrative, particularly contracts, and promotional materials; others, including advertisements and cover proofs, concerning actual publication....