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Major accessions to repositories in 2000 relating to Scottish History |
Local
- Sir Henry Alexander (1875-1940), Lord Provost of Aberdeen: scrapbooks, visitor's book, reports and photographs c1920-35 (Acc 360)
- Peter Farquhar Flett (1908-1992), lieutenant-commander: corresp, notebooks, news cuttings, photographs c1930-79 (Accs 332, 333, 340, 341, 344, 346, 349, 351)
- George Bennett Mitchell & Son, architects, Aberdeen: architectural drawings, specifications and schedules, contract and cash books, valuation reports and reports on churches under 1925 Church of Scotland Act 1904-71
- Aberdeen Educational Trust (addnl): minutes, corresp, financial records, legal papers, bursary applications and plans c1890-1989 (Acc 399)
- Aberdeen South Townswomen's Guild: minute books, attendance registers and scrapbooks c1947-89 (Acc 334)
- Mastrick Congregational Church, Aberdeen (addnl): register, church roll and cradle roll (Acc 335)
- North East Scotland Federation of Townswomen's Guilds (addnl): newspaper cuttings, photographs and memorabilia 1946-95 (Acc 394)
- Peterhead Methodist Church and North of Scotland Mission Circuit: minutes, cash books, legal papers, baptismal register 1815-1992 (Acc 364)
- Workers Educational Association, North of Scotland district, Aberdeen: minutes, corresp, reports and newsletters c1970-93 (Acc 382)
- Sir Alexander Lyon, Lord Provost of Aberdeen: scrapbooks of press cuttings, photographs and ephemera 1880-1912 (Acc 386)
- Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone, granite merchant: personal and trustees' corresp, accounts and legal papers 1860-1902 (Acc 391)
- Joseph Johnston & Sons Ltd, fish curers, Montrose: records 18th-20th cent (MS681)
- Brechin Town Council: papers incl material rel to Brechin Public Library (MS680)
- Carnoustie War Memorial and Rest Garden: visitors book from 1952 (MS683)
- Hillside Primary School, Montrose: logbooks and admission registers 1888-2000 (ACC/6)
- William Adair: notebooks and legal papers 1635-70 (Acc 483)
- Arnold F Macjannet: notebook rel to the history of Irvine (Acc 545)
- Alexander Smith (1830-1867), poet: misc papers rel to his work (Acc 528)
- William Flint & Sons Ltd, grain and manure merchants, Ayr: administrative, financial, production and legal records 1912-70 (Acc 554)
- G Reid & Son Ltd, building contractors, Catrine: administrative, financial and contract records (Acc 558)
- William Samson & Co, seed merchants, Kilmarnock: stock catalogues 1878-1972 (Acc 474)
- Ardrossan, Saltcoats and Stevenston Merchants' Association: financial records 1903-37 (Acc 467)
- Arran War Memorial Hospital, Lamlash: records incl minute books 1922-71 (Acc 567)
- Auchinleck Kirk Session: minutes, proclamation and baptismal registers 1752-c1967 (Acc 547)
- Cumbrae School Board: minute book 1897-1919 (Acc 566)
- Customs and excise records for Ayr, Irvine and Troon outports 1729-1921 (Acc 557)
- Kay's Schools, Kilmarnock: trustees' minute book 1867-85 (Acc 502)
- Mauchline Golf Club: financial records c1909-16 (Acc 492)
- National Council for Women, North Ayrshire branch: records 1928-29 (Acc 471)
- Saltcoats Amateur Swimming Club: records 1893-1937 (Acc 466)
- Saltcoats and District Socialist Sunday School: records 1916-42 (Acc 470)
- Saltcoats and District Vegetarian Society: financial records 1943-57 (Acc 472)
- Saltcoats Horticultural Society: records 1905-33 (Acc 473)
- Saltcoats Independent Socialist Party: records 1917-52 (Acc 469)
- Saltcoats Literary and Debating Society (addnl): administrative and financial records 1897-1982 (Acc 468)
- Saltcoats, Ardrossan and Stevenston Horticultural and Floricultural Society: records 1841-1904 (Acc 464)
- St Nicholas Kirk Session, Prestwick: records 1909-86 (Acc 490)
- Stair Kirk Session: minute books 1902-87 (Acc 540)
- Troon and District Badminton Association: records, incl minutes and corresp 1971-98 (Acc 548)
- Wallacetown Kirk Session, Ayr: minute books 1929-48 (Acc 546)
- John E Dickenson: brochure, photographs and memoir rel to building of Tongland dam and power station 1934-84 (GGD326, GGD342)
- David Imrie (d 1783), minister of St Mungo: religious musings, accounts, recipes, genealogical notes, jottings on church, local and national affairs (GGD446)
- Thomas Liddell, minister of Lochmaben: census details and associated notes for parish1851-66 (GGD451)
- Cochran & Co (Annan) Ltd, boilermakers: corresp rel to refractories 1928-35 (GGD440)
- Thomas and John Kelly, grain merchants, Dumfries: executry and associated papers 1832-78 (GGD450)
- Dumfries and Maxwelltown Girls' Social Club: financial records 1920-26 (GGD445)
- Records of various Dumfriesshire horse breeding societies 1895-1954 (GGD448)
- Fraser Grange, baritone: papers incl artistic criticisms, notebooks on voice production, corresp, programmes, newscuttings, photographs 1920-62
- William Smith (Shoe Merchants) Ltd, Dundee: records incl memorandum of agreement, ledger, stock book, time and wages record, Blairgowrie, Montrose and Crieff balance sheets 1874-1962
- Dundee West Church of Scotland: records of predecessor congregations incl McCheyne Memorial Church, St John's Church and Ryehill Church 1865-1989; Scottish Sunday School Union for Christian Education, Dundee Local Union minutes 1926-73
- Hillcrest Bowling Club, Dundee: minutes, register of members, cash book, corresp 1912-95 (addnl)
- Hare family of Calderhall: trust deed ledger of Lt Colonel James Hare incl annotated OS map of oil works 1883-1917
- Edinburgh Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd: records rel to predecessor companies (Acc 532)
- Edinburgh Western Cemetery Co: certificate of right of burial ledger and lair book 1872-79 (Acc 552)
- Association of County Councils of Scotland: minutes and manuals 1890-1975 (Acc 551)
- Lothian and Borders Police: files c1960-89 (Acc 526)
- Old St Paul's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh: volumes (2) rel to the historical background of the church (Acc 522)
- Edwin George Morgan (b 1920), writer and professor of English (addnl): literary MSS (MS 220/49-50, 52-53)
- Alison Louise Kennedy (b 1965), author (addnl): typescripts of the novel, Everything You Need, and selected corresp (SR 229)
- CJ Harley, Ross and Cromarty County Council development officer: working papers, reports, corresp 1949-98 (HCA/D601)
- Anderson, Shaw & Gilbert, solicitors, Inverness: practice and clients records 19th-20th cent (HCA/D586)
- North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board: plans of principal schemes 1945-67 (HCA/D606)
- Inverness Methodist Circuit (addnl): minutes, accounts and journals 1777-1999 (HCA/D558)
- Junior Chamber, Inverness: minutes, albums, corresp 1971-98 (HCA/D610)
- Iain Sutherland, writer: corresp, research notes and materials rel to Caithness topics (P384)
- Wick Playing Fields Association: papers incl list of contributors and corresp c1928-59 (P385)
- Edinburgh Caithness University Students Association: minute book 1929-37 (P386)
- Wick North, Halkirk and Shebster schools: corresp, attendance registers, lesson plans c1910-49
- Airdrie Burgh records 1821-1975 (UA)
- Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Motherwell: records
- Kilsyth Burgh: Dean of Guild records 1885-1963 (UK 1/3/1)
- Motherwell and Wishaw Burgh: town clerk's corresp 1928-35 (UJ 1/49)
- Auchterarder estate cartularies 1832-1965
- Auchterarder rentals 1773, 1814
- Graham & Finlayson, solicitors, Crieff: legal papers c1700-1920
- James Hardy, secretary to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club: notebooks c1849 (SBA/126)
- Emily Menzies (1851-1908): recipe book (SBA/91)
- John Robertson: MS "Memoirs of the Antient and Illustrious Family of Lauderdale" 1758 (SBA/131)
- Agnes Roberts Sanderson: journal with genealogical notes and details of family travels from Scotland to Australia and back 1862-78 (SBA/127)
- Robert Aitchison, grocer and spirit dealer, Cockburnspath: ledgers and stock books 20th cent (SBA/84)
- Auchencrow School: log books 1864-1966 (SBA/82)
- British Red Cross Society, Selkirkshire branch: news cuttings book, photographs, audio tape 1949-77 (SBA/123)
- Melrose Yearly Friendly Society: minute book 1944-76 (SBA/92)
- Peebles Mixed Youth Club: minute book 1963-67 (SBA/88)
- Scott Mortification Trust, Selkirk: deeds 16th-19th cent (SBA/98)
- Scottish Borders Amateur Athletic Association: records 20th cent (SBA/111)
- Social Peeblean Society of Edinburgh (later Peeblesshire Society): minute books 1782-1934 (SBA/85)
- Traquair Primary School: log books, registers, photographs 1874-2000 (SBA/120)
- Charles Fothergill, journalist and naturalist: journal anent travels in Shetland 1806
- Charles Joseph Galliari Rampini (1840-1907), sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway: professional, literary and personal papers (5 vols)
- Joseph Leask, merchant, Lerwick: wet copy letter book c1878-79
- H McDonald & Co, fish curers, Lerwick: ledgers, cash books, shipping books etc c1909-29
- Campaign against Dounreay expansion: records incl minutes, newsletters, press cuttings and photographs c1980-99
- Graham family of Rednock (addnl): papers 1538-1926 (PD160)
- John Riddell, peerage lawyer and genealogist: letters and related papers to Sir Archibald Edmonstone rel to genealogy of the Edmonstones of Duntreath 1828-51 (1 vol) (PD167)
- Russell & Aitken, solicitors, Falkirk: Canglour farm writs, particulars, plans and corresp rel to various estates 1700-1901 (PD168)
- Stirling Christian Youth Council: minutes 1942-59 (PD169)
- Stirling County Club: records 1878-1992 (Acc 1134)
- Stirling Methodist Church (addnl): records 1944-2000 (PD49)
- Duchray copy charter 1509 and Rednock charter 1598 (PD177)
National
- Boyce family of Edinburgh: papers, incl First World War letters of Private Robert Boyce, 11th and 12th Royal Scots 1897-1961 (GD1/1265)
- Mackay family of Bighouse, Sutherland family of Uppat, Baillie family of Dochfour and Dr JJ Galbraith, chief medical officer for Ross and Cromarty: papers 1541-1962 (GD1/1200)
- John Elder, WS, Edinburgh: letter book 1887-88 (GD1/1272)
- Andrew Russell, merchant in Rotterdam (addnl): letters received 1681-92 (GD1/885)
- Robert Butchart, land surveyor, Arbirlot: notebook c1820 (GD1/1248)
- James Bertram & Son Ltd, papermill engineers, Leith (addnl): apprenticeship and staff registers 1924-72 (GD284)
- Birnie Kirk Session: misc papers 1836-90 (CH2/36)
- Board of Inland Revenue (Scotland) (addnl): records incl predecessors 1783-2000 (IRS)
- Boharm and Dundurcas Kirk Session: records incl minutes 1679-1948 (CH2/1115)
- Border Counties Railway: register of shareholders 1860 (BR/BCS/2/3)
- Boyndie Kirk Session: records 1698-1992 (CH2)
- Church of Scotland Home Mission Board: records and committee papers 1844-1948 (CH3)
- Dunkeld Kirk Session: minutes 1831-1969 (CH2/749)
- Edinburgh Gas Light Co: letter book 1823-29 (GD1/1246)
- Elgin Presbytery and Kirk Session: misc records 1707-1997 (CH2)
- Gigha and Cara Kirk Session: treasurer's account book 1797-1890 (CH2/697)
- Irvine Old Kirk Session: records, incl proclamations register 1848-1929 (CH2)
- Knockando Kirk Session: record of baptisms 1760-94 (CH2/1509)
- Landowners Co-operative Society Ltd: minutes and reports 1913-83 (GD1/1271)
- Langton Kirk Session: records, incl minutes 1796-1971 (CH2)
- Lord Advocate: applications and petitions to him 1866-76 (GD1/1241)
- Moray Justices of the Peace: records 1763-1978 (JP10)
- Polwarth Kirk Session: records, incl minutes 1807-1950 (CH2)
- Royal Commission of inquiry into duties and fees of law court officials in Scotland: reports 1815-21 (COM20)
- Royal Commission of inquiry into law courts in Scotland: reports 1834-39 (COM26)
- Speymouth Kirk Session: records, incl baptisms, communion rolls and material rel to Garmouth School 1814-1958 (CH2/839)
- St Cuthbert's Kirk Session, Saltcoats: record of distribution of poor alms 1751-72 (CH2)
- St James's Kirk Session, Forfar and South United Free Church, Forfar: records, incl minutes 1804-1977 (CH2, CH3)
- St Margaret's United Free Church, Dunfermline: minutes and roll books 1825-1964 (CH3/1232)
- Synod of Merse and Teviotdale: record of schoolmasters' salaries 1742-95 (CH2/265)
- Union of Post Office Workers: records 1971-93 (GD1/1258)
- Walston Kirk Session: communion rolls 1834-1904 (CH2)
- Cameron family of Fassifern (addnl): corresp and papers 1684-1853 (Acc 11910)
- Douglas and Palmer-Douglas family of Cavers: estate account books 1754-74 (Acc 11837, 11852)
- Hay family of Hayfield, Shetland (addnl): estate papers 1610-c1853 (Acc 11899)
- Sharpe family of Hoddam (addnl): papers c1679-1812
- Alexander Stuart Boyd, artist and illustrator: corresp with members of the Barr family 1898-1918 (Acc 11881)
- Priscilla Jean Fortescue Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir: political and personal corresp and papers 1937-78 (incorpotates earlier deposits) (Acc 11884)
- Fanny Susan Copeland (1872-1970), translator and journalist: unpublished autobiography rel to her life in Scotland, Slovenia and internment in Italy (Acc 11904)
- Arthur W Donaldson, journalist and chairman of the Scottish National Party (addnl): political and personal corresp and papers 1930-83 (Acc 11908)
- Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley, painter: corresp with Audrey Walker 1954-63 (closed until 2010) (Acc 11826)
- Duncan Glen, poet and publisher (addnl): personal and business corresp and papers 1958-98, incl papers rel to Akros publications (Acc 11848)
- William Sydney Graham, poet: letters to Ruth Rosen 1977-84, with associated corresp 1978-86 (Acc 11885)
- Sir Alexander Gray, economist and writer, and John Gray, broadcaster: corresp, diaries, broadcast scripts and tapes, papers c1918-75 (Acc 11897)
- Andrew Greig, author and mountaineer: corresp and literary papers 1968-97 (Acc 11859)
- James Michael Grieve, journalist, broadcaster and Scottish National Party activist: personal and political corresp and papers 1933-93, incl corresp of or rel to his parents (Acc 11857)
- Thomas Babington Macaulay, statesman and historian: MS articles on Francis Atterbury, John Bunyan, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson and William Pitt the Younger for the 8th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica (Acc 11868)
- Callum Macdonald, printer, publisher and editor (addnl): personal and business corresp and papers c1965-98 (Acc 11898)
- Norman Malcolm Macdonald, author and Gaelic dramatist: literary corresp and papers (Acc 11876)
- Osborne Henry Mavor, playwright as James Bridie (addnl): papers 1929-56 (Acc 11907)
- Alexander Nasmyth, painter: pencil drawings (16) to illustrate 'Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley' 1821 (Acc 11900)
- Sir Walter Scott, author: letters and papers 1812-31, mostly rel to the trust administering his business affairs 1826-31 (Acc 11878)
- William Simpson, artist, photographer and war correspondent: autobiographical notes and recollections 1889; with a watercolour and photographic album 1843-93 (Acc 11877)
- Andrew Symson: 'A large description of Galloway and the parishes in it' 1684, possibly compiled for Sir Robert Sibbald's projected statistical atlas of Scotland (Acc 11892)
- Nigel Godwin Tranter, author (addnl): literary papers 1940-2000 (Acc 11852)
- Mark and Charles Kerr, King's Printers and Stationers for Scotland, Edinburgh: corresp and papers c1790-1820 (Acc 11853)
- Scottish Midland Co-operative Society, Edinburgh: records 1864-1991
- Donaldson's College, Edinburgh (addnl): records 1826-56 (Acc 11896)
- Edinburgh District Labour Party: minutes, corresp and papers 1956-83 (Acc 11922)
- International PEN, Scottish Centre (addnl): papers 1981-86 (Acc 11849)
- Lothians and Borders Horse: records incl war diaries and papers 1939-46; with records of the Yeomanry Club and the Regimental Association 1926-68 (Acc 11856)
- Young Women's Christian Association of Scotland: records c1910-90 (Acc 11906)
Special
- William Wright Fulton, physician: personal papers 1947-98 (HB 100)
- Dominic William Andrew McCreadie (addnl): personal papers rel to hospital construction and design 1947-89 (HB 78)
- Board of Management for Dumbartonshire Hospitals: minutes 1948-74 (AC 46)
- Dumbarton Cottage Hospital: visitor's book 1899-1951 (AC 39)
- Glasgow College of Nursing and Midwifery: misc material incl registers of nurses from Glasgow hospitals (HB 95)
- Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital (addnl): records, incl board of management and committee minutes 1914-78 (HB 4)
- Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital for Children: registers of patients 1934-48 (HB 5)
- Glasgow Royal Infirmary: nursing records 1929-93 (HB 14)
- Henry Brock Vale of Leven Cottage Hospital, Alexandria: minutes and annual reports 1939-48 (AC 50)
- Lanarkshire Health Board: annual reports of the medical officer of health 1891-1973 (LK 13)
- Leverndale Hospital (addnl): records, incl case notes, superintendent's files and patient statistics 1895-1996 (HB 24)
- Southern General Hospital, Glasgow: records rel to various genitourinary clinics 1919-64 (HB 17)
- Vale of Leven District General Hospital, Alexandria: misc records, incl photographs and plans c1950-99 (AC 40)
- Victoria Infirmary, Helensburgh: minutes, annual reports, ward journals 1879-1948 (AC 41)
- Western Infirmary, Glasgow: registers of nurses 1899-1974 (HB 6)
University
- Russell family of Aden: family and estate papers 1788-1909 (MS 3634)
- G Brooke: fishing registers recording salmon catches on the Spey and Dee 1931-59 (MS 3644)
- George Skene Keith, minister of Tulliallan: letters (12) to Admiral Lord Keith rel to ecclesiatical and agricultural affairs 1817-22 (MS 3629)
- Paul Egerton Weatherley, botanist: papers 1959-81 (MS 3621)
- Northern Assurance Co Ltd, Aberdeen: records 1830-1950 (MS 3624)
- Aberdeen and District Milk Marketing Board: minutes etc 1932-92 (MS 3636)
- Aberdeen University Oral History Archive; tape recordings and transcripts (MS 3620)
- 'Highland Legends and Traditions': orally collected Highland folklore and history c1830 (1 vol) (Add MS 9572)
- Papal dispensation for the marriage of Roderick McLeod of Lewis and Marsella, daughter of Celestine de Insulis, 1465 (DOC 4143)
- Abertay Historical Society: treasurer's records 1979-98 (AccM/424)
- Dundee Royal Infirmary: admission books 1981-93 (AccM/408)
- Eastern Regional Hospital Board: minutes 1949-53 (AccM/418)
- Ninewells Hospital, Dundee: maternity ward admission registers 1995-98 (AccM/406)
- Perth Glasite Church: records 19th cent (AccM/409)
- Polish Armed Forces in Scotland: records incl oral history tapes and interview transcripts 1940-50 (AccM/422)
- Royal Dundee Liff Hospital: records incl patient registers and accounts 1820-1972 (AccM/417, AccM/432)
- John Baillie (1886-1960), theologian: further papers (E2000.29)
- George Mackay Brown, author: letters to Charles Senior 1963-72 (E2000.11)
- Kenneth Lindsay Little (1908-1991), social anthropologist (addnl): corresp, notebooks and papers (Acc00/018)
- Norman Alexander MacCaig (1910-1996), poet: letters to Trudy Wallace (E2000.01)
- John Pitcairn: personal and family papers, and papers rel to paper mills 18th-19th cent (E2000.23-25)
- Sir Charles Wyville Thomson (1830-1882), naturalist: papers (E2000.07)
- Edinburgh University UFO Society: corresp, papers and newsletters c1970-79 (Acc00/007)
- Sydney George Checkland, economic historian (addnl): papers c1950-80 (ACC1948)
- Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross, economist (addnl): papers c1940-90 (ACC 1934, 1968)
- James Robert Napier, engineer and inventor (addnl): copy letter book, papers c1861-79 (DC90)
- J & P Coats (UK) Ltd, thread mfrs, Paisley (addnl): drawings and specifications, Central Agency price list, family trees 1886-1996 (UGD199)
- James Finlay plc, tea planters, cotton mfrs and merchants, Glasgow: staff records incl Calcutta, Julian Clough's papers, staff magazine 1927-2000 (addnl) (UGD91)
- A & J Inglis Ltd, shipbuilders, Glasgow (addnl): ship drawings 1880-90 (UGD69)
- Mavor & Coulson Ltd, electrical and mining machinery mfrs, Glasgow: staff record cards, wages ledger (ACC1949)
- Tindal, Oatts & Rodger, solicitors, Glasgow: annual reports and accounts 1919-52 (ACC1898)
- Adam Smith Club: minute books 1975-95 (DC331)
- Life Association of Scotland, Edinburgh and Foremen & Staff Mutual Benefit Society, Glasgow: administrative and financial records c1830-1989 (ACC2013)
- Scottish Allotments & Garden Society: minutes, financial records etc (ACC1999)
- University of Glasgow Mountaineering Club: treasurer's corresp and accounts 1964-78 (ACC1901)
- Constance Helen Brock (d 2000): research papers rel to the physicians William Hunter and James Douglas
- Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916), composer (addnl): autograph scores 1886 (MS MacCunn)
- Sir Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972): corresp with Edward, Duke of Windsor, mainly rel to book "The Windsor Tapestry" (MS Gen)
- Edwin Morgan, poet (addnl): papers incl material rel to foreign tours 1965-2000 (MS Morgan)
- Church Service Society: records, mainly corresp (MS Gen 1695)
- Scottish Ballet: further records (STA)
- Scrapbooks rel to proposed building of an opera house in Edinburgh (STA)
- Struther Arnott (b 1934), principal of St Andrews University: papers of him and his wife Greta, incl notebooks and diaries (ms38487)
- Ronald Gordon Cant (1908-1999), historian: corresp and papers (12 boxes) (msdep112)
- David Hay Fleming (1849-1931), historian and antiquary: MS collection (transferred from Fife Council Library Service) (msdep113)
- John White & Son (Weighing Machines) Ltd, Auchtermuchty: records 19th cent-c1989 (ms38487)
- Drumeldrie School: papers 18th-19th cent (ms38464)
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