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Publications.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents distributed to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.

Found in 196 Collections and/or Records:

Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198

Papers, mostly of Marshall Anderson, from the Attic Archive, Dundee.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 1-Box 51(19)
Scope and Contents The Attic Archive evolved organically from the activities of Pete Horobin, beginning in 1978. When Horobin's association ended, the archive was continued in turn by Marshall Anderson, Peter Haining and, lastly, aitch. Each change of custody coincided with the start of a new phase of activity, each phase undertaken, usually, over ten years.The papers of the Attic Archive are now dispersed through various cultural institutions, each having a particular association with the archive,...
Dates: Circa 1980-2010.

Papers of and concerning John MacDougall Hay (1881-1919), father of the poet George Campbell Hay.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26793-26796
Scope and Contents

John MacDougall Hay became minister of Elderslie in 1909, but is best known for his work as a novelist and poet, particularly for his novel 'Gillespie' (London, 1914). He also wrote numerous articles for newspapers and periodicals.

Dates: 1904-1956, undated.

Papers of and concerning the poet George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26721-26792
Scope and Contents Born in Elderslie and educated in Tarbert Loch Fyne, Edinburgh and Oxford, George Campbell Hay spent most of his life in Edinburgh, but preserved a lifelong attachment to Kintyre, and in particular to Tarbert. Much of his poetry is a celebration of Kintyre, the land and its people, particularly the fishermen. Most of these poems had been written between 1938 and 1945 and already published in periodicals; they include translations from eleven languages. Hay's most important work,...
Dates: [Circa 1925]-1987, undated.

Papers of Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd (1893-1981).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27438-27445
Scope and Contents

Born in Cults, Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd was educated in Aberdeen and became a lecturer in English at Aberdeen College of Education. She wrote poems in Scots and English and three novels as well as articles for magazines and journals.

Dates: 1896-1980, undated.

Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.85.1.1-85.1.14
Scope and Contents

Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

Dates: 1907-1913.

Papers of Magnus Magnusson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13542/1-1198
Scope and Contents This archive contains the papers of Magnusson Magnusson (1929-2007), broadcaster, scholar, author and environmentalist accumulated over the course of his career. After embarking on a career in journalism in the 1950s Magnusson moved into television in the-mid 1960s where he presented such programmes as "Chronicle" which was dedicated to achaeological discoveries. Magnusson may be best known for his role of quizmaster on the long-running BBC show Mastermind. Magnusson had a strong connection...
Dates: circa 1948-2006.

Papers of Neil M Gunn.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.209

Papers of TAG Theatre Company, concerning a production of Lewis Grassic Gibbon`s trilogy, "A Scots Quair".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10939
Scope and Contents

Includes programmes, photographs and typescript and printed copies of an adaptation by Alastair Cording of "Sunset Song"

Dates: 1993.

Papers of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.11-81.2.38
Scope and Contents

The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.

Dates: 1852-1900.

Papers of the family of Ballantyne of Holylee.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.253
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of J G Lockhart and Robert Cadell.

Dates: 18th century-19th century.

Papers of the family of Dunlop of Stevenson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.360
Dates: 18th century-20th century.

Papers of the Rev Alexander George Somerville.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12274
Scope and Contents

Papers mostly concern Somerville`s work, during 1969-1970, as Organising Secretary of the World Council of Churches Refugee Relief in Biafra.

Dates: 1946-1982.

Papers of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.50100-50251
Scope and Contents William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, known as Ronald, was born in Edinburgh in 1889. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School and the University of Edinburgh, where he read philosophy. After graduating, Fairbairn pursued further studies at the Universities of London, Manchester, Kiel and Strasbourg, where he read divinity and Hellenic studies. Fairbairn`s academic studies were interrupted by the First World War, during which he served as a territorial in the Royal Garrison Artillery with...
Dates: 1891-1974, 1992.

Papers relating to the Edinburgh branch of the Social Democratic Party.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13662
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of agendas, minutes, newsletters and publications relating to the organisation of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Edinburgh and its merger with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the Social and Liberal Democrats Party, later known as the Liberal Democrats.

Dates: 1981-1988