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Reviews. Document genre.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Reports or essays giving critical estimates of a relatively recent work, performance, or event. For other critical descriptions and analyses, prefer ""criticism"" .

Found in 286 Collections and/or Records:

Prompt script and reviews of 'The last of the Lairds', by Allan Sharpe, after the novel by John Galt, containing staging notes and programme., 1989, [1993].

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11443/20-21
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Arranged alphabetically by title. The date in square brackets is that of the Fifth Estate production, where this has been possible to establish.

Dates: 1989, [1993].

Published articles and reviews of Janet Adam Smith., 1928-2016.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13861/103-112
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.

Dates: 1928-2016.

Published articles and reviews of Janet Adam Smith and of Michael Roberts., 1928-2016.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13861/103-119
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.

Dates: 1928-2016.

Published articles and reviews of Michael Roberts., 1931-1958

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13861/113-119
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.

Dates: 1931-1958

Review of 'Place names of Scotland', 2nd edition (Edinburgh, 1903) by James B Johnston., [1903, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.403
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: [1903, or after.]

Reviews and correspondence relating to 'The moth trap' by Tom Pow., 1989-1990.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12233/64
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates: 1989-1990.

Reviews and press cuttings, containing some reviews of the individual plays and coverage of the season as a whole., 1982-1983.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10893/92
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Containing papers on the following Scottish plays: 'Gold in his boots' by George Munro; 'U.A.B. - Scotland' by Harry Trott; 'Johnny Noble' by Ewan MacColl; "In time o' strife" by Joe Corrie; and 'Men should weep' by Ena Lamont Stewart.

Dates: 1982-1983.

Reviews by Janet Adam Smith for 'The Listener'., 1928-1968.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/103
Scope and Contents

Containing:

'The Listener’s Book Chronicle', 1928 [specimen reviews], 1929, 1930,1932-1937.

'The Listener’s Book Chronicle', 1938-1949, 1965-1968.

"The Listener’s ‘Week by Week’", and editorials from 'The Listener', 1929-1935.

Dates: 1928-1968.

Reviews by Janet Adam Smith for the 'New Statesman'., 1949-1975.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/106
Scope and Contents

Containing:

Articles and review essays for "New Statesman’s" 'Books in general' feature, 1950-1975.

Miscellaneous obituaries and articles by Janet Adam Smith for the 'New Statesman', 1950-1960.

Dates: 1949-1975.

Reviews by Janet Adam Smith for 'The Spectator', 1937-1949, and reviews of new novels, June–October 1940., 1937-1949.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/105
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.

Dates: 1937-1949.

Reviews by Janet Adam Smith for the 'Times Literary Supplement'., 1936-1960, 1962-1996.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/104
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.

Dates: 1936-1960, 1962-1996.

Reviews by Janet Adam Smith for various newspapers., 1936-1972.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/108
Scope and Contents

Containing reviews for: 'The London Mercury', 1936-1939; 'The Criterion', 1936-1939; 'The Times', 1936-1939, 1952, 1968-1971; and 'The Sunday Telegraph', 1962- 1972.

Dates: 1936-1972.

Reviews ‘Gesualdo’, an opera libretto by Ian Rankin. , 2008.

 File
Identifier: MS.50580
Scope and Contents

Scottish Opera Five:15 Press Coverage, 2008. Bound volume of reviews of ‘Gesualdo’. Folios 1-92.

Scottish Opera Five:15 Audience Feedback, 2008. Folios 93-100.

Note from Scottish Opera press officer. Folio 101.

Dates: 2008.

Reviews of ‘A Question of Blood’., 2003-2004.

 File
Identifier: MS.50573
Scope and Contents ‘Birmingham Post’, 2003. ‘Brighton Evening Argus’, 2003. ‘Cambridgeshire Journal’, 2003. ‘Choice Magazine’, 2003. ‘Daily Mirror’, 2003. ‘Dover Mercury’, 2003. ‘East Kent Mercury’, 2003. ‘Essex Magazine [and] Anglian Life’, 2003. ‘Evening Herald (Dublin)’, 2003. ‘Faversham News’, 2003. ‘Glasgow Evening Times’, 2003. ‘Good Book Guide’, 2003. ‘Good Book Guide’, 2004. ‘Gravesend Messenger’, 2003. ‘Guardian’, 2003. 2 copies. ‘Hampstead & Highgate Express’ (‘Ham & High’),...
Dates: 2003-2004.

Reviews of 'Black and Blue', 'The Black Book', 'Dead Souls', 'Exit Music', 'The Falls', 'Fleshmarket Close', 'The Hanging Garden', and 'Hide and Seek'., 1991-2009.

 File
Identifier: MS.50571
Scope and Contents ‘Black and Blue’. Folios 1-47. ‘Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine’, 2000. ‘Big Issue’, 2014. ‘Bookseller’, 1997. Includes unannotated cover sheet from Orion. ‘City Paper’, 1998. ‘Daily Telegraph’, 1997. ‘Deadly Pleasures’, 1997. ‘Directory’, 1997. ‘Glasgow Evening Times’, 1997. ‘Guardian’, 2009. See reviews of ‘Exit Music’. ‘Herald’, 1997. ‘Independent’, 1997. ‘Journal’, 2014. ‘Literary Review’, 1997. 2 copies. ‘Mail on Sunday’, 1997. ‘New York Times’, 1997. ‘Oxford Mail’, 1998....
Dates: 1991-2009.