Press cuttings. Information artifacts.
Found in 2179 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of The Honourable Margaret Herbison, during her term of office as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland., 1970.
Papers of the International PEN Scottish centre., 1934-1998, undated.
Papers of the "Keep Our Scottish Battalions" Campaign.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges and sister organisations.
Papers of the National League of the Blind, Edinburgh Branch.
Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.
James Leslie Mitchell is best known for his Scottish novels, ‘Sunset song’ (London, 1932), ‘Cloud Howe’ (London, 1933) and ‘Grey granite’ (London, 1934), published under the pseudonym 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', but he also wrote essays, biographies, and a study of South American history, ‘The conquest of the Maya’ (London, 1934).
Papers of the playwright and author, Joe Corrie (1894-1968).
Joe Corrie worked as a miner in Fife and Ayrshire, and many of his plays and stories are set in mining communities. He was a prolific writer who published a number of plays, several collections of poetry, and two novels, as well as numerous stories and articles in newspapers. Many of his plays were popular with amateur dramatic groups.
Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941).
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Papers of the Rev Alexander George Somerville.
Papers mostly concern Somerville`s work, during 1969-1970, as Organising Secretary of the World Council of Churches Refugee Relief in Biafra.
Papers of the Reverend Dr Duncan M Campbell, Minister of Cumlodden., Circa 1878-1912, 1927, undated.
Papers of the Reverend William Wilson, minister of St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee.
William Wilson, who was dispossessed at the Disruption in 1843, became Moderator of the Free Church in 1866, and moved to Edinburgh in 1877.
Papers of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, mostly containing printed material, some press cuttings and photographs., 1821-1978, undated.
Papers of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, relating to essay competitions., 1957-1963.
Papers of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, relating to 'The Athenaeum scheme'., 1880-1904, 1921-1933, 1953.
Papers of the Rymour Club, Edinburgh, which existed from 1903 to 1947, its object being the collection of Scottish ballads, popular rhymes, proverbs, and the like.
Papers of the Saltire Society concerning festivals, including correspondence, programmes, photographs, presscuttings, and related material., 1947-1987, undated.
Papers of the Saltire Society concerning local government, including papers of the Committee on Local Government, notes, presscuttings and related printed papers; with a collection of nursery rhymes., 1954-1970, undated.
Papers of the Saltire Society traditions group, including general papers, with presscuttings on Scottish painters and various topics., 1956-1981, undated.
Papers of the Scottish Campaign for Resistance of the Atomic Menace (SCRAM).
Includes research files, correspondence, reports and press cuttings.