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Administrative records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records that relate to budget, personnel, supply, and similar facilitative operations within an organization.

Found in 293 Collections and/or Records:

Papers concerning Peebleshire.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4300
Scope and Contents

Including typescript extracts from a diary, and church records.

Dates: 19th century.

Papers of Aitken Dott and Son.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10421

Papers of and concerning the Barnton Fire Fighting Parties.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.4303/1-4
Scope and Contents

The Barnton Fire-Fighting Parties provided a trained fire-fighting force to combat any fire emergency caused in the area by enemy action. The scheme was primarily a duty of home defence and self defence.

The first meeting of the Leaders of the Fire Fighting Parties in the Barnton Sector took place on July 21st, 1942 at the Park Grove Petrol Station.

Dates: 1942-1944.

Papers of and concerning the Library of the Kirk of Saltoun.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9270/1-42
Scope and Contents

Includes:

18 volumes of sermons

three volumes of library catalogue

papers concerning the management of the Library and of the affairs of the parish.

Dates: 17th century to 20th century.

Papers of and related to Connect, formerly the Scottish Parent Teacher Council (SPTC) and Council of Parent and Parent-Teacher Associations of Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14406/1-36
Scope and Contents

Minutes, accounts, correspondence and other related material for Connect and its predecessors.

Initially the organisation was the Council of Parent and Parent-Teacher Associations of Scotland, but was renamed as the Scottish Parent Teacher Council (SPTC) in 1976. It was further renamed as Connect in 2018.

The organisation promotes family engagement in education.

Dates: 1947-2018.

Papers of Dr Esther Breitenbach.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13806/1-118
Scope and Contents The collection reflects Dr Esther Breitenbach's feminist activism from the 1970s onwards. This includes papers reflecting her contributions to the Women’s Legal and Financial Independence Campaign, the Radical Scotland Women’s Group, and the European Forum of Socialist Feminists, as well as papers relating to the activities of the Women's Co-ordination Group, which advanced the demand for 50:50 gender representation. The collection includes assorted annotated pamphlets, conference papers,...
Dates: 1966-2014.

Papers of Heart of Midlothian Football Club.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10226
Scope and Contents

Includes papers of Robert Tait, director.

Dates: 1919-1967.

Papers of James McIntosh relating to the Andrew Fletcher Society

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14072
Scope and Contents James McIntosh was educated at Camphill School, Paisley, and Glasgow University. He worked as a teacher at Govan High School, Glasgow, and in Baghdad, Iraq (1956-58), and then as a teacher trainer at Moray House, Edinburgh before joining UNESCO in 1964. He was involved in setting up teacher training colleges in Ethiopia (1965-72), Afghanistan (1972-74), and Lesotho (1975-82), after which time he retired to Edinburgh. The papers relate to his involvement during his retirement with the Andrew...
Dates: 1975-2003.

Papers of Janet Paisley.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 1(1)-Box 6(46)-was TD.3720
Scope and Contents

This is a box list of the papers of Janet Paisley, as received by the Library. No attempt has been made currently to review the order of the papers, to date them or to otherwise interpret them. The aim of the box list is to facilitate access in advance of any fuller arrangement and description.

Dates: 1981-2017.

Papers of Joan Gibson relating to her involvement with Engender and other women's organisations.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14055/1-47
Scope and Contents

The papers include administrative papers of Engender, a national research and campaigning membership organisation for women in Scotland, and antecedent groups and conferences including the Scottish Convention on Women.

Dates: 1974-2008.