Manifestoes.
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Copies of printed and other material concerning the ‘Forty-five., 1745.
Includes a letter, manifesto, etc., of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1745; the ‘dying declarations’, last speeches, etc., of Lord Balmerino, Mr John Hamilton, and other Jacobites; political verses, toasts, epitaphs, etc.
Correspondence and papers of Lady Tweedsmuir relating to election campaigns, mostly in the constituencies of North Aberdeen, 1945, and South Aberdeen, 1946-1974, where she stood as a Unionist parliamentary candidate., 1945-1974.
Early years diaries and papers of George Dott., 1909-1914.
"Manifesto by the Noblemen, Gentlemen and others... for Asserting the Undoubted Right of their Lawfull Sovereign James the Eight", an unsigned Jacobite engagement.
Manuscript copy of 'To All True-Hearted Scotsmen, whether soldiers.or others’, a manifesto printed by Robert Freebairn at Perth., 1715.
Miscellaneous Scottish National Party papers., 1943-1984, undated.
Notebook of George Davie containing material for a manifesto by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’, probably for his candidature in the Edinburgh University Rectorial election in 1935., 1935.
The volume also contains some preliminary notes by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ for an intended publication, 'A Pageant of Scottish Personality (from 729 to 1940)' (folios 24-29).
Papers mostly of the National Party of Scotland, containing manifesto, leaflets, policy paper and report., Circa 1930-circa 1936, undated.
Containing:
(i) Manifesto of the National Party of Scotland as issued by the National Council, 10 May 1930.
(ii) Three recruitment leaflets of the National Party of Scotland, undated.
(iii) A policy paper, probably of the National Party of Scotland, circa 1930.
(iv) Report of a Party committtee to investigate Parliamentary grants to universities by Malcolm MacEwen, circa 1936.
Papers of the Advisory Council for the Arts in Scotland (ADCAS)., 1977-1984.
Papers on electioneering for the new Scottish Parliament., 1999.
Records of the National Party of Scotland, Scottish Convention, Scottish Covenant Association and Scottish National Party.
Minutes, letters and papers, with miscellaneous printed political leaflets and ephemera retained with the collection, from the Edinburgh Headquarters of the Scottish National Party. Included are records of other organizations of the national movement.