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This collection consists of personal recordings predominantly made by John Junner, a teacher and Scottish traditional music expert and collector. It includes published, unpublished and broadcast material (including BBC Schools programmes). The Collection has a focus on the work of James Scott Skinner.

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A collection of oral history interviews which focuses on the Glasgow Unity Theatre and its productions designer, Helen Biggar.

Scope and Contents This collection of oral history interviews with various students and members of academic and support staff at the University of Strathclyde formed part of the research material used by Callum G Brown, Arthur McIvor, and Neil C Rafeek to write a book entitled ‘The University Experience 1945-1975: An Oral History of the University of Strathclyde’. The interviewees discuss both their backgrounds and their experiences of teaching and working at the University of Strathclyde between 1945 and...

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The recordings were captured between 1992 and 1994. The interviews focus on immigrant Jewish women from the former Soviet Union who resettled in Israel.

Scope and Contents The collection includes: interviews with Scottish ornithologists; after dinner speeches, 1968-1981, made at the annual Scottish Ornithologists' Club conference; recordings relating to Fair Isle and the Scottish Bird Islands Study Cruise at the time of the International Ornithological Congress in 1966. The remainder of the collection comprises recordings of birds from various locations around Scotland, including St Kilda. Amongst the group represented here is a selection from a...

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The address by Professor Davidson concerns biochemistry, with particular reference to DNA and nucleic acid.

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The recordings include BBC news items and special features covering the UCS 'work-in'. Interviewees include members of the Joint Shop Stewards Committee, and other workers.

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A collection of interviews recorded by Linda MacKenney mostly in Scotland, but also the wider United Kingdom, between 1982 and 1985.

The collection focuses on people connected with Scottish theatre during the 1930s and 1940s. It also focuses on the creation and disbandment of important amateur theatre groups in Glasgow around the time of the Second World War, and the political climate of Scotland at that time.

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The recordings mainly concern the life of William Macewen, in particular his appointment as Surgeon-General to the Royal Navy during World War One, but also his family association with Garrochty.

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Charles Woolfson was a lecturer in the Department of Social and Economic Research at the University of Glasgow, and John Foster was documenting the 103 day action. The recordings are of Joint Occupation Committee meetings, interviews, and relevant broadcast material.

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Readings predominantly made by John A Mack, an academic working in the field of criminology, from academic works written by himself and from published creative works.

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A series of lectures prepared and recorded by Professor James Holms Dickson for students attending the 1989 Plant Ecology Junior Honours course. The lectures cover a range of subjects relating to biology and ecology.

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The recordings are of various presentation ceremonies, lectures and addresses.

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Various audio recordings associated with St Andrew's College of Education, including speeches, religious services, lectures and ceremonial events.

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The recordings were originally made for the purpose of writing up shop stewards' bulletins by the publicity committee. The events covered include: mass meetings of UCS workers; shop steward meetings; press interviews; and television and radio programmes concerning UCS.