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School magazines.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Magazine produced by a school with features and publications by and relating to the pupils.

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Papers concerning theatrical productions and the school magazine of the Royal High School., 1946-1956, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.26297(part 1)-(part 2)
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Papers concerning theatrical productions, 1946-1955, undated (folio 1); (ii) Papers concerning the school magazines, ‘Schola Regia’ and ‘Phaeton’, 1948—1956, undated (folio 56). They include drafts of editorials, articles, poems and proofs.

Dates: 1946-1956, undated.

Papers of Hector MacIver as schoolmaster at the Royal High School., 1945-1965, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26295-26298
Scope and Contents

Hector MacIver taught in the Royal High School in Edinburgh from 1945 to 1966; he was appointed Principal Teacher of English in 1947. Apart from his teaching, MacIver was particularly interested in drama, and regularly produced the school's plays, some of which were, with his encouragement, written by pupils. He also advised the editor of the school magazine, ‘Phaeton’, which he was instrumental in founding.

Dates: 1945-1965, undated.

Papers of the author, broadcaster and schoolmaster, Hector MacIver (1910-1966).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26276-26300
Scope and Contents

Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.

Dates: 1928-1966, undated.