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Major accessions to repositories in 2022 relating to Scotland

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Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives: Old Aberdeen House Branch

  • Charter for land transfer in Rayne, Aberdeenshire 1637 (DD3163)
  • Deer District, Aberdeenshire: plans 1862-1965 (Acc3224)
  • Johnston family, baronets, of Caskieben: records pertaining to the estate of Portlethen and William Harvey's Trust 1816-1916 (Acc3164)
  • Evan Street Water Company, Aberdeenshire: records 1848-1886 (DD3204)
  • Inverurie Burgh: plans 1860s-1950s (Acc3220)
  • Peterkins, solicitors, Aberdeen: plans 19th-20th cent (Acc3214)
  • Sarah Rochester, Aberdeenshire: digital copy of isolation diary 2020 (DD3189)
  • St Fergus School: lockdown cook book 2020 (ED/GR6S/B63/3/1)
  • Martin Ford (fl2006-2011), Councillor: papers c2006-2011 (DD3240)
  • David Carr (fl1860-1889), solicitor, Stonehaven: client executry papers c1860-1889 (Acc3205)

Dumfries and Galloway Archives

  • Closeburn Scottish Women's Institute: records rel to events, activities and management nd (1535)
  • Locharbriggs Village Hall Committee: records rel to events, activities and management 1890-2001 (1532)

Dundee City Archives

  • Broughty Ferry Art Society: records incl minutes, catalogues, photographs, newspaper cuttings, certificates, correspondence, membership/syllabus cards 1978-2020 (GD/X1559)
  • Churches Together in Dundee: records incl minutes of meetings, financial records, corresp 1989-2008 (GD/X1563)
  • Hamilton Carhartt Ltd, overall manufacturers, Dundee: photographs, press cuttings, 16mm films c1940-1979 (GD/X1572)
  • North Carr Lightship: monthly return log books 1928-1969 (GD/X966)
  • Orchar Park Bowling Club: minutes, constitution, corresp, membership applications, financial records, fixture lists, lists of prize and trophy winners, newspaper cuttings, photographs 1911-2020 (GD/X514)
  • George Clark (fl1859-1898), teacher at West End Academy, Dundee: mark books, bank account books, merit lists, newspaper cuttings, photographs of staff and pupils 1859-1898 (GD/X1556)

East Dunbartonshire Archives: Bearsden

  • West of Scotland Football Club, rugby club, Milngavie: programmes, match reports, AGM documents, photographs, financial records c2004-2022 (2022/8, 2022/9)

East Dunbartonshire Archives: Kirkintilloch

  • Kirkintilloch Male Voice Choir: minutes, members registers, admin files, programmes, photographs, historical notes 1925-2009 (2022/2)
  • Lennox Cricket Club, Lennoxtown: scoring book, fixtures card, fundraising event notice, player memories notes 1967-2022 (2022/1)
  • Lenzie Tennis Club: minutes 1889-1913 (2022/10)
  • Lenzie Tennis Club: minutes 1913-1922 (2022/13)
  • Balmore Trust, East Dunbartonshire: minutes, annual reports, corresp, staff newsletters, news cuttings 1980-2020 (2022/6)

Edinburgh City Archives

  • Brown Brothers & Co Ltd, ironfounders, hydraulic and general engineers, Edinburgh: records of Andrew Betts Brown of Brown Brothers nd (1275)
  • Bruce Peebles & Co Ltd, engineers and electrical machinery manufacturers, Edinburgh: selection of photographs of machinery, products, and staff in the workplace c1900-2010 (1298)
  • City of Edinburgh Council: Voices: The Community Story: oral history interviews focusing on the theme of migration into Edinburgh 2022 (1300)
  • Edinburgh City Mission: records 1834-1950 (1301)
  • Welsh and McNay families: birth certificates, rent reciepts, corresp, birthday cards 1800s-1900s (1277)
  • Merchant Maiden Hospital, Edinburgh: vols (7) of accounts (non-consecutive) 1782-1907 (1278)

Glasgow City Archives

  • Carlene Cliver: diary, "Journal of an American couple's life in Glasgow during the time of the pandemic" 2019-2020 (TD2160)
  • Clyde Cruising Club: log books 1936-1939 (TD2171)
  • Gaiter Club, walking society: minutes, cash book 1858-1920 (TD2164)
  • Glasgow Chamber of Commerce: additional minutes, list of members, subscription book, letter books, newscutting books 1782-1913 (TD1670)
  • Glasgow City Labour Party: cash books 1939-1968 (TD2169)
  • Glasgow Corporation: Domesday Book of Glasgow 1890-1975 (C5/10/4)
  • Glasgow Corporation: City and Royal Burgh of Glasgow: Roll of Honorary Burgesses 1901-1991 (C8/4)
  • Anderston United Free Church, Glasgow: records 1834-2019 (CH3/591)
  • Macfarlane & Co, solicitors, Glasgow: trust and executry papers of companies acquired by Macfarlane & Co: Cowan, Steuart & Taylor and Nicolson MacWilliam c1830-1980 (TD2179)
  • Pollokshields Heritage Group: additional minutes, newspaper cuttings and videos 1986-2020 (TD2008)
  • Polmadie Iron Works: index of employees 1870-1920 (TD2165)
  • R & W Sorley, jewellers and silversmiths, Glasgow: photograph album of commissioned works c1896-1919 (TD2162)
  • Photograph album of Rolls-Royce factory, Hillington, showing construction of site, machinery in use by workers and teaching at Stow College 1939-1940 (TD2144)
  • Rotary Club of Kelvin: agendas, minutes, attendance records, photographs, directories, correspondence, photograph album, visitors' book, attendance book and file on 50th anniversary 1948-2017 (TD2182)
  • Stonelaw Ward Committee: minutes 1926-1934 (TD2163)
  • Thomas Coats Memorial Baptish Church, Paisley: additional records 1929-2019 (TD1080)
  • Thomas Kinnaird of Glasgow: letter book 1887-1895 (TD2186)
  • West of Scotland Academy of the Fine Arts: treasurer's accounts 1857-1871 (TD2173)

Highland Archives

  • Bear Scotland and Paul Woods: images of work carried out on the Kessock Bridge 2013-2022 (GB232/D1741)
  • Beauly Fishery Board: oral history interviews, transcripts, interview summaries and permission consent forms 2022 (GB232/D1742)
  • Cantraybridge Trust: minutes, accounts, bank statements 2008-2022 (GB232/D1760)
  • Clan Donald Society of the Highlands and Islands: agendas and minutes, treasurer's papers, bank statements, membership lists 2010-2020 (GB232/D1500)
  • Dingwall Monday Club: minutes, accounts, corresp, administrative papers, President's notebooks, framed musical notation c2001-2020 (GB232/D1744)
  • Alexander Clyne, designer and architect, Inverness: works, designs and articles 1909-1947 (GB232/D1746)
  • HM Prison Inverness: Segregation Unit admissions book, plans 1899-1973 (GB232/D1754)
  • Hugh Barron, researcher: family history and research papers with estate rental ledgers for Urquhart Estate, Inverness-shire; ministers own copy of Glenurquhart Free Church baptisms (1866-1892) 1782-2008 (GB232/D1734)
  • Inverness Architectural Association: records incl minutes 1928-1994 (GB232/D1694)
  • Inverness Choral Society: records incl minutes, newspaper cuttings, newsletters, programmes, photographs, centenary publication 1920-2021 (GB232/D1732)
  • Fraser family, Barons Lovat: records incl files relating to fishing; hydro electric schemes; Mallaig harbour; estate rentals; corresp 19th-20th cent (GB232/FL)
  • Macpherson family of Biallid: family photograph albums and scrapbooks incl rel to Sir Tommy Macpherson's obituaries, funeral and memorial services; with corresp c1820-2021 (GB232/D1501)
  • Fuel Pump & Tank Services, Inverness-shire: minutes, corresp, financial records, photographs, map, diaries of Fuel Pump & Tank Services, Inverness-shire, with work diaries of Mr Melrose Douglas and Mr William Macdonald employees of Pump Maintenance Ltd c1960-1998 (GB232/D1727)
  • Northern Constabulary: Kingussie, Newtonmore and Aviemore police station log books and registers c1960-1989 (GB232/R91)
  • Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland: Provincial Grand Lodge of Ross & Cromarty: attendance book and with records of the Lodge St. Martin No. 1217, (Ullapool) minutes and petition 20th-21st cent (GB232/D1650 & D1670)
  • Women's Guild, St Columba High, Inverness: records incl minutes, attendance register, list of senior members 1964-2006 (GB232/CH3/1655)

Highland Archives: Lochaber Archive Centre

  • British Aluminium Ltd, Kinlochleven: glass plate negatives 20th cent (L/D190)
  • Richard Wood, forester: albums of photographs of Glenquoich c1950-2010 (L/D246)

Highland Archives: Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre

  • Dr Colin MacDonald Memorial Fund, Skye: trustee minutes and and deed of trust 1965-2000 (SL/Acc.654)
  • Skye Agricultural Show: files, ledgers and judges books 1920-2000 (SL/Acc.632)
  • Macdonald family of Waternish: letter books, papers, diary 1945-1974 (GB3219/SL/D266)
  • Ewen Bain (1925-1989), cartoonist: Angus Og cartoon strips 1960-1989 (GB3219/SL/D425)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Leicester Branch: records including minutes (1977-1992), photograph album and loose photographs (c1980-2018), newsletters (2006-2011), administrative papers, history of society and newspaper cuttings (c1980-2018) 1977-2018 (DE10521)

Nucleus: The Nuclear and Caithness Archives (Caithness Archives)

  • Peter Lees: papers rel to his work at Dounreay and Thurso Technical College incl various nuclear plans, hand-written notes, academic literature, photographs c1950-1980 (GB1741/P1000)
  • Sinclair family, Earls of Caithness: resignation in Favour of William, Earl of Caithness and Lord de St Clare, Lands of Noss, per Oliver Sinclair one of the sons of the said Earl 1476 (GB1741/P957)

Orkney Archive

  • Richard Welsby, photographer, Orkney: photographic collection providing a comprehensive historic, environmental, social and cultural record of life in Orkney c1980-2001 (AccNo 2979)
  • Save the Children: Orkney branch: minutes 1966-2001 (AccNo 2908)
  • Peat rights map of Stenness along with a handwritten key to the plots 1816-1816 (AccNo 2908)
  • Second World War recipe books, some recipes dated nd (AccNo 3003)
  • Sheena Graham-George (fl2022), artist and interviewer: collection of oral histories collected around St Margaret's Hope 2022-2022 (AccNo 2990)
  • North Isles Landscape Partnership Scheme: oral history project by Dr Tom Rendall, incl sound recordings and summaries 2022-2022 (AccNo 3010)
  • George "Dod" Leonard, photographer and postcard maker, Orkney: glass plate negatives (1200) of local people and scenes used to make postcards, images largely taken by Leonard, and by Tom Kent 1870-1969 (AccNo 2917)

Perth and Kinross Council Archive

  • Angela Jeffs, creative writing teacher, Perthshire & multiple other creators: Drawing on the Writer Within', Covid 19 creative writing project produced collaboratively and through international effort 2020-2021 (Acc22/16)
  • Balnacraig School: records incl admission registers, 1898-2012; punishment book, 1919-1976; licensing register; Fechney School minute book, 1900-1911; annual reports, 1926-1974; governors/directors minutes, 1937-1994 1898-1994 (Acc22/12)
  • Dr Fritz Eichmann, physicist, teacher, prisoner of war: personal papers and photographs c1940-1949 (Acc22/26)
  • Dr Fritz Eichmann, physicist, teacher, prisoner of war: corresp and personal papers c1940-1949 (Acc22/17)
  • MacFarlane's Trust ledger (1873-1874) details the setting up of the trust by Duncan MacFarlane (d. 1873), farmer at Invervack, Blair Atholl, in July 1873 c1873-1969 (Acc22/13)
  • Friends of William Soutar Society, Perth: records rel to society activities, including ‘People who Knew Soutar’ oral history project 1932-2016 (Acc22/58)
  • James Ballantine (1851-1927), ferryman, inspector of the poor, Caputh: papers rel to Caputh Registration Office, Caputh Parochial Board, Spittalfield Bowling Club and other local organisations c1870-1929 (Acc22/42)
  • Mountain Bothies Association: organisational records incl newsletters, Journals, minutes, annual reports, corresp c1960-2021 (Acc22/51)
  • Mountain Bothies Association: organisational records incl newsletters, Journals and bothy maintenance lists 1966-2012 (Acc22/52)
  • Breadalbane Academy: records incl log books, 1904-1992; handbooks, 1985-2006; year books, 2000-2008 (2005 & 2007 wanting); school magazines, 1919-1992 (some wanting); school newsletter, 1972-1973; programmes and certificates 1904-2008 (Acc22/01)
  • Perth Burgh Council: City of Perth Golden Book of Remembrance 1939-1945 (Acc22/27)
  • Perth Symphony Orchestra: organisational records including administration papers, programmes of concerts, photographs and other ephemera 1951-2015 (Acc22/18)
  • Royal Horticultural Society of Perthshire: organisational records incl minutes, accounts, list of officer bearers, subscriptions and members lists, syllabuses, catalogues and other ephemera 1806-1976 (Acc22/34)
  • Royal Horticultural Society of Perthshire: organisational records including minutes, flower show schedules, corresp with Buckingham Palace, general corresp, photographs and other ephemera 1912-2020 (Acc22/35)
  • Schiehallion Ladies Curling Club: organisational records including minutes; photographs; newspaper articles; programmes; score cards and club badges 1960-2021 (Acc22/29)
  • F. Peter Lole (1909-2003) authority on glassware: papers rel to Jacobite glass 1909-2003 (Acc22/41)
  • Thomas Clark (b1775) of Highfield, Scone: journal containing an account of his life and family covering the period c1775 - c1837, with biographical details for his parents, siblings, wife and children entered on the front and back pages. Many of the entries are taken up with descriptions of local church sermons c1775-1837 (Acc22/43)
  • Norman Renfrew (fl1977-1980), Perth and Kinross Provost: personal scrapbooks containing photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes, invitation cards and other papers relating to events attended during his term as Provost 1977-1980 (Acc22/06)
  • Dr Fritz Eichmann, physicist, teacher, prisoner of war: letters to his wife, Ille and their children describing his life at Balhary Camp, visits to the Barrett family in Blairgowrie and other observations 1945-1948 (Acc22/04)

Scottish Borders Archive and Local History Centre

  • Berwickshire Commissioners of Supply: Cess Roll, Berwickshire c1694 (SBA/1318)
  • John Porter Blair (1898-1963), wine merchant and radio operator, of Selkirk: amateur radio logbook 1936-2011 (SBA/1370)
  • Hawick Chamber of Trade: minutes and papers 1982-2003 (SBA/1336)
  • Hobkirk Primary School: log books, 1909-2007; admission register, 1968-2003 1909-2007 (SBA/1358)
  • Ker family of Hutton, Berwickshire: writs of Broadmeadows, Hutton, Berwickshire 1578-1801 (SBA/1338)
  • William Henry 'W H' Ogilvie (1869-1963), poet, author, journalist: poems, articles and sheet music 1918-2022 (SBA/907)
  • Robertson family of Ladykirk, Berwickshire: accounts, estate and household 1774-1775 (SBA/1362)
  • River Tweed Commission: minutes of the Police Committee 1851-1857 (SBA/1351)

Special Collections, The Mitchell Library

  • Glasgow Caledonian Strathspey and Reel Society: books, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera rel to administrative history 1923-2006 (880683 85361)
  • City Bakeries Boys' Camp: photograph albums documenting the annual City Bakeries Boys' Camp for apprentices 1921-1939 (1,001,101)
  • Glasgow Northern Highland Benevolent Society: ephemera, minutes, cash books, letters, press cuttings 1836-1981 (1,003,915)
  • Glasgow Society of Musicians: records incl minutes, financial records, maps, plans and photographs 1893-1994 (1003496)
  • Margaret Thomson Davis (1926-2006), novelist: corresp and typescripts 2005-2006 (891535)
  • William Graham (1845-1914), photographer, Glasgow: photographs, glass negatives, slides, albums, c1890-1914 (1,003,917)
  • William Young (1845-1916), artist: scrapbooks containing cuttings, photographs, journal articles and ephemera relating to Glasgow c1880-1916 (646203-646249)
  • John Alston (1778-1846), director of the Glasgow Asylum for the Blind: Braille books, primarily published by John Alston of the Glasgow Asylum for the Blind with material published by other prominent Braille publishers such as William Moon (1818–1894) of Sussex, who invented a system incorporating a mixture of embossed symbols and letters and James Gall (1808-1895) of Edinburgh 1818-1887 (59040 et al)
  • George Bennie (1891-1957), owner of George Bennie Airspeed Railway Ltd: books, pamphlets, photocopied material, photographs, corresp, news cuttings, minutes, memoranda, extracts documenting the administrative running of the company with ephemera rel to the construction of the mile long test run in Milngavie 1926-1951 (1,001,057)

West Dunbartonshire Council Archive Services: Clydebank Library

  • Clydebank Housing Scheme: building plans 1925-1937 (ACCN2022/06)

West Dunbartonshire Council Archive Services: Dumbarton Library

  • Dunbartonshire and Argyll Ladies’ County Golf Association: records incl corresp, competition results and guidelines, publications order books, membership records 2004-2015 (ACCN2022/01)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

  • James Thomson (1700-1748), poet: 'Autumn' from 'The Seasons' late 18th cent (Add MS 89606)

Historic Environment Scotland (formerly RCAHMS)

  • A & W Reid, architectural practice: designs for Abercrombie Mausoleum, Forglen House, Aberdeenshire, by A & W Reid. 1864 (2022/6)
  • James Mackie & Sons, engineers, Belfast: album of photographs of the interior of Baltic Works, premises of Hardie & Smith, 28 Annfield Road, Dundee, presented by James Mackie & Sons, engineers, of Belfast 1957 (2022/52)
  • Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh and Linlithgow: oral histories rel to Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh and Linlithgow, compiled by Ruth Donaldson 1940-2000 (2022/28)
  • Possibly William Graham (1845-1914),, photographer: an album of photographs of 'Glesga and Suburbs' comprising nearly 500 photographs of Glasgow buildings, street scenes and interiors, as well as photographs of illustrations of Glasgow and views of buildings in Renfrewshire and East Lothan. Accompanied by a notebook with descriptions of each photograph c1900 (2-22/61)
  • Peter McGowan (fl1990-2020), landscape researcher and practitioner: papers comprising digital material, reports, drawings, slides and photographs 1990-2020 (2022/12)
  • Mark Turnbull (1943-2016), landscape practitioner, teacher: papers, comprising slides, reports, drawings and teaching notes from both his teaching and practicing careers 1960-2010 (2022/14)
  • James Curle (1862-1944), archaeologist: a collection of diaries and notebooks compiled during his excavation of Newstead, Scottish Borders 1904 (2022/41)
  • Ian Fisher (1943-2021), historian: collection of research material compiled by Fisher, comprising manuscript material, offprints, photographs and slides rel to Early Christian sites in Scotland, Ireland and Scandinavia, and other subjects 1970-2015 (2022/60)
  • Henry Dryden (1818-1899), antiquarian: notebooks (3) compiled by Dryden showing sites in Orkney, Mull and mainland Scotland c1850 (2022/50)
  • Euan MacKie (1936-2020), archaeologist: papers comprising records of excavations at Leckie Broch, Stirling; Brainport Bay, Argyll and Bute; East Wemyss Caves, Fife; Sheep Hill, West Dunbartonshire; and research into roundhouses, brochs, and archeoastronomy 1960-2018 (2022/54)

Lothian Health Services Archive

  • Clifford Leen, consultant in infectious disease: papers collected during his career, specialising in HIV and AIDS 1989-2006 (Acc22/008)
  • Eothen Stearn, artist: oral histories, moving image footage, and digital artwork created by Eothen Stearn towards an art installation around Edinburgh's experience of the HIV epidemic (Meet me at the threshold, Talbot Rice Gallery, 2022) c1970-2022 (Acc22/015)
  • Roy Robertson, professor of addiction medicine: papers fl1989-2010 (Acc22/010)
  • Iain Dewar Haig (fl1955-1986), architect: papers and photographic material from his career as South Eastern Hospital Board architect 1955-1986 (Acc22/014)

National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections

  • Journal of a tour of the Scottish coast and lighthouses, including some sketches of lighthouse keepers and their wives 1821 (Acc.14361)
  • Ebenezer Black (fl1806-1815), surgeon: journal 1806-1815 (Acc.14342)
  • Reverend Robert Blair (fl1719): poems and religious writings 1719 (Acc.14372)
  • Alan Norman Bold (1943-1998), poet, biographer, journalist, musician: further literary papers incl pencil sketches and other artwork c1940-1969 (Acc.14452)
  • Robert Burns (1759-1796), poet: first Commonplace Book nd (Acc.14409)
  • Herrick Bunney (1915-1997), organist of St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh: papers 1898-2006 (Acc.14453)
  • Alexander Low Bruce (1839-1893), colonial estate owner, Nysasaland, and son-in-law of David Livingstone, missionary and explorer: corresp mostly rel to his business interests in the African Lakes Corporation, and related companies, but incl some copy letters, 1859, of David Livingstone 1859-1892 (Acc.14404)
  • John Borland (1796-1885), merchant and emigrant: typescript copy of journals kept by John Borland, emigrant to the USA 1843-1882 (Acc.14314)
  • Sir Christian John Store Bonington (b 1934), Knight, mountaineer, writer and photographer and Peter Gillman (b 1942), journalist and mountaineer: papers relating to the climb featured in and the publication of 'Eiger Direct', by Dougal Haston, Peter Gillman and Chris Bonington 1966-2018 (Acc.14376)
  • Robert Cochrane (1804-1891): travel journal, with accounts of travels in Europe and a round the world tour 1865-1871 (Acc.14386)
  • Forbes, family, of Culloden: family papers, incl letters to Duncan Forbes of Culloden 1694-1744 (Acc.14316)
  • Gall & Inglis, printers and publishers, Edinburgh: business records 1840-1974 (Acc.14407)
  • Admiralty ledger preserved by Henry Dundas 1804-1805 (Acc.14367)
  • Lanarkshire Tandem Club: minutes 1902-1903 (Acc.14334)
  • Napier family of Merchiston: letters and legal documents incl material in Scots, and rel to Scottish domestic affairs in the seventeenth cent 1465-1689 (Acc.14371)
  • Scottish Parent Teacher Council: records 1948-2018 (Acc.14406)
  • South Edinburgh Liberal Association: records rel to the Scottish Liberal Party and Liberal Democrats and the Edinburgh Liberal Party 1968-1999 (Acc.14384)
  • Workers' Educational Association, Scotland: records c1920-2000 (Acc.14420)
  • Letters of various Scottish women, possibly collected by Major Duncan Grant Warrand (1877-1946), Seaforth Highlanders 1686-1837 (Acc.14321)
  • David Stephen (1869-1946), composer and organist: journals and papers 1902-1946 (Acc.14377)
  • Rose B Willison (fl 1915-1923), nurse in the First World War: autograph album while a nurse at Stobhill Hospital 1915-1923 (Acc.14319)
  • Nigel Smith (1941-2020), industrialist and referendums expert: papers 1993-2020 (Acc.14391)
  • Lilian Adam Smith, née Buchanan (1866-1949), wife of Sir George Adam Smith: diary of Lilian Buchanan with related notes and corresp 1889-1931 (Acc.14375)
  • Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), wife of Franklin D Roosevelt, President: letters of, and about, Eleanor Roosevelt to Arthur C Murray, 3rd Viscount Elibank 1946-1957 (Acc.14392)
  • Vincent Cartledge Reddish (1926-2015), Astronomer Royal for Scotland: papers incl corresp, papers concerning professional appointments, photographs and publications c1930-1999 (Acc.14415)
  • Patrick Murray (fl1751), of Edinburgh: compendium of texts or lecture notes on philosophical subjects, probably written in France 17th cent (Acc.14312)
  • Hew Morrison (1850-1935), Librarian, Edinburgh Public Library, Gaelic scholar: corresp and papers, incl extracts from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness 1877-2003 (Acc.14317)
  • Alexander McLeish (fl1920-1959), Church of Scotland minister and missionary in India: diaries rel to his activities as a Church of Scotland minister and missionary in India c1920-1959 (Acc.14331)
  • John Peter McGrath (1935-2002), playwright, director: scripts, screenplays, corresp and papers, incl some corresp and papers of Elizabeth MacLennan, and audio and video recordings of productions of 7:84 Theatre Company 1948-2013 (Acc.14408)
  • Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972), Knight, author: typescript of 'Greek memories', First World War memoirs 1932 (Acc.14449)
  • Henry Lambert (1833-1902), General Manager of the Great Western Railway: From King's Cross to Euston via the Caledonian Canal, Tour journal of Henry Lambert. 1892 (Acc.14414)
  • Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), essayist and historian: notebooks 1813-1873 (Acc.14412)
  • John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (1705-1782), general: letters received, on mostly military matters 1753-1771 (Acc.14341)
  • James Byres of Tonley (1734-1817), antiquary and architect: papers of and concerning Byres 1774-1817 (Acc.14324)
  • Robert Burns (1759-1796), poet; Walter Scott, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford, (1771-1832), writer; George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, afterwards Noel (1788-1824), poet: manuscripts from the Library of Honresfield House 18th-19th cent (Acc.14410)

V&A Archive of Art and Design

  • Dorothy Hogg (1945-2022), jewellery artist and designer: sketchbooks, designs, photographs, correspondence, papers 1960s-2020s (AAD/2022/4)

V&A Department of Theatre and Performance

  • Bunny Christie (b1962), theatre set designer: costume notebooks and rehearsal documents rel to the 2018 London production of "Company" 2018 (THM/643)

University

Aberdeen University, Special Collections Centre

  • Account book relating to an unknown Aberdeen household or business and a sasine related to Elgin 1756-1770
  • Alexander Pirie & Sons, paper-makers, Aberdeen: additional business records 19th-21st cent (MS 2911)
  • Alexander Caseby (1898-1991), missionary: personal papers 1935-1991 (MS 3289)
  • Helena Mennie Shire (1912-1991), literary scholar: additional papers 1980s-1990s (MS 3407)
  • Smith family, baronets, of Crowmallie: family and personal papers incl of Sir Robert Smith (1880-1957), MP 1906-1976
  • Theodore Shennan, Professor of Pathology, University of Aberdeen: personal papers c1850-1950

Abertay University Archives

  • Abertay University: Abertay Coronavirus Archive 2022: community updates and administrative communications on campus life as the country moved into the endemic phase of the Covid-19 pandemic 2022 (ACC118)

Dundee University Archive, Records Management and Museum Services

  • Alan Fairlamb (b1947) Professor of Biochemistry: material rel to research, prizes, time at the University and an oral history, incl rel to his own research, Life Sciences, establishing the Drug Discovery Unit and the Wellcome building 1980-2022 (ACC 2022/1219)
  • Alan Sharp (1934-2013), screenwriter: letters [65] from Alan to Susan Tarr, mostly personal but also addressing his travels and thoughts about major events, American and Middle Eastern politics, history and religion c1984-2022 (MS 454/6/2)
  • Dr James F Riley (1912-1985) surgeon: research notebooks 1943-1969 (UR-SF 48)
  • Dundee Royal Infirmary: Eye Ward operation books,lists patients details, operation, treatment and outcomes 1913-1951 (ACC 2022/1220)
  • Dundee Rep Theatre: models and photos of sets of various Rep productions incl The Elves and the Shoemakers, Osage County 2017 , Measure For Measure, Wings Around Dundee, The Bookies, Don Quixote. Also production documentation for productions incl Death of a Salesman, Monsterous Bodies, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Deathtrap, Passing Places,The 39 Steps, All My Sons , A-Z of Dundee Tour, Rep Stripped 2010-2022 (ACC 2022/1236)
  • Alan Sharp (1934-2013), screenwriter: personal and semi-professional letters (9) to Ann Andrews with ms copy of Dean Spanley script and script of 'Piano Movements', which Sharp sent to Ann with the idea of her producing one of them for New Zealand television c1989-1999 (MS 454/6/3)
  • Peter Haining (fl 1990-2023), mixed media artist also known as Aitch: wooden cabinet containing diaries, photographs, videos and audio cds which together chart the artist's life during 2021. Considered by the artist to be part of the Attic Archive 2021 (ACC 2022/1228)

Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections

  • Keith Andrews (1920-1989), British art historian and museum curator: academic papers incl drafts for 10 articles and lectures with manuscript alterations and notes, some in multiple versions, each with a list of slides, with 5 type-written translations into German 1960-1989 (Coll-2062 (accession number: SC-Acc-2022-0049))
  • Ian Appleton (1939-2020), architect: collection of Ian Appleton relating to artist Ian Hamilton Finlay 20th cent (Coll-2059 (accession number: SC-Acc-2022-0042))
  • Edinburgh University Women's Club Badminton Club: trophies, minutes, reports, correspondence, and pamphlets 1929-2009 (EUA GD6 (accession number: SC-Acc-2022-0070))
  • Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825-1894), Scottish writer: autograph manuscript (386 leaves) of R. M. Ballantyne’s Erling the Bold: A Tale of the Norse Sea-Kings, a novel of Viking life, inspired by Icelandic sagas. Working manuscript with alterations, clarifications and revisions 1869 (Coll-2074 (accession number: SC-Acc-2022-0086))
  • Sir John Jackson (1851-1919), civil engineer and engineering contractor: photograph albums, newspaper articles, accounts, postcards, business papers, family papers c1898-1919 (Coll-1490 (accession number: SC-Acc-2022-0043))
  • Graham MacIndoe (b1963) Scottish photographer: photography collection on four themes: Edinburgh images; Edinburgh College of Art and Student Protests, Powderhall and Bookies; Coal Yard 1980-1989 (Coll-2067 (accession number: SC-Acc-2022-0074))
  • Manuscript volume containing notes of lectures by Hugh Blair, Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh, comprising 39 complete lectures 1770 (SC-Acc-2022-0058)
  • Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish novelist and poet: autograph letter to his friend the antiquarian Cuthbert Sharp in Bishopwearmouth, Durham. From Abbotsford, dated 10th May [no year, but probably 1830] c1830 (Coll-1147/22-0057/2)
  • Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish novelist and poet: autograph letter to Robert Smith Esq., primarily concerning the recovery of a debt, but also with family news and remarks of a general nature. St Paul’s Churchyard, Edinburgh, dated 5 January 1800 1800 (Coll-1147/22-0057/1)
  • Percy Johnson-Marshall (1915-1993), Professor of urban design and regional planning, University of Edinburgh: family letters of from the Second World War, with additional material related to Johnson-Marshall's career 1939-1945 (PJM (accession number: SC-Acc-2022-0064))

Glasgow University Archive Services

  • George Gibson & Co Ltd, shipping company, Edinburgh: minutes, gross earnings, letter book, charter, photographs 1878-1972 (GLAASC ACCN 00079)
  • Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society: additional records 20th cent (GLAASC ACCN 00103)
  • Scottish Hellenic Society, Glasgow: minutes, membership cards, syllabi and programmes of events, flyers 1961-1997 (GLAASC ACCN 00080)
  • Sir Kenneth Calman (b1941), surgeon, oncologist and former Chancellor of the University of Glasgow: papers 20th-21st cent (GLAASC ACCN 00059)
  • Andrew Brownlie (b1876), medical graduate, University of Glasgow, Scotland: clinical notes on lectures and demonstrations given by Professor Sir W T Gairdner FRS, summer session, 1898 1898 (GLAASC ACCN 00086)
  • Ursula Cairns-Smith (1928-2021), lecturer in German, University of Glasgow: memoir covering her life 1928-1951; diaries and corresp (in German) giving contemporaneous accounts of being evacuated from her home in Berlin and subsequent life in various camps and schools during the Second World War 1960-2019 (GLAASC ACCN 00064)

Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department

  • Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow: cuttings books, photographs, programmes, front of house posters, memorabilia, John Watt's (Publicity Manager) diaries 20th cent (GLAASC ACCN 00074)
  • Dr John MacInnes (Iain MacAonghuis) (1930-2019), Scottish Gaelic scholar: papers 20th cent (GLAASC ACCN 00095)
  • Eliza Isabella McNeill (1788-1856), the subject of Whistler's ‘Portrait of Mrs Eliza Winstanley': diary 1823 (GLAASC ACCN 00100)
  • Scottish Youth Theatre: scripts, press cuttings, flyers, brochures, programmes, marketing, Summer Festivals, posters, photographs 20th-21st cent (GLAASC ACCN 00097)
  • Bone family, artists: corresp, notebooks and journals, articles and publications, press cuttings, photographs, sketch books, artworks. Incl material rel to Sir Muirhead Bone, Mary Adshead, Stephen Bone, Gertrude Bone, Gavin Bone 20th cent (GLAASC ACCN 00078)
  • Theatre Babel, theatre company, Glasgow: press releases, programmes, press cuttings, photographs, campaigns to save funding. 1994-2008 (GLAASC ACCN 00070)
  • Elaine McDonald OBE (1943-2018), founder Member of Scottish Ballet: papers relating to career and the development of Scottish Ballet, incl books, papers, audio, VHS tapes 1969-1989 (GLAASC ACCN 00084)
  • Edwin Morgan (1920-2010), Glasgow poet laureate and translator: corresp, press cuttings, medical reports c2000-2010 (GLAASC ACCN 00063)
  • Edwin Morgan (1920-2010), Glasgow poet laureate and translator: letters to Emma Richardson regarding a school poetry competition in North Carolina, USA 1985 (GLAASC ACCN 00107)

Heriot-Watt University Heritage Service

  • Currie and Balerno News: newspapers 1976-2019 (Acc 2022.25)
  • Donald Brothers Ltd, linen, canvas and furnishing fabric manufacturers, Dundee: counter books (2) c1930-1939 (DB)
  • Heriot-Watt University: photographs 1950-1992 (HWU)
  • Shirley Shaw, textile collector: international textiles 19th-20th cent (Acc 2022.7)
  • Shirley Pinder (fl1996-2010), textile designer: student work and scarves 1996-2010 (Acc 2022.2)
  • Bernat Klein (1922-2014), textile designer: additional products incl fabrics, dresses and a cake tin 1971 (BK)

Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections

  • Buchanan family of Craigend Castle, Milngavie: family and estate papers including correspondence, diaries, press cuttings, photographs, political, diplomatic and military papers c1910-2012 (Bu)

Strathclyde University Archives

  • Mainstream Renewable Power, renewable energy company: Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm impact assessment 2012-2018 (Acc 1858)
  • Mental Health Foundation: Reclaiming Our Heritage oral history project records c1950-2009 (Acc 1848)
  • Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow: recordings of 220th lecture series 2021-2022 (Acc 1854)
  • John McGowan (fl1854), student at Anderson's University, Glasgow: notes from Dr Frederick Penny's lectures on chemistry at Anderson's University, Glasgow 1854-1855 (OM/483)
  • Jessica Douthwaite (fl2018), student at University of Strathclyde: oral history interviews for PhD project 'Voices of the Cold War in Britain, 1945-1962' 1945-1962 (SOHC/63)
  • Laurie Kazan-Allen (fl1990-2022), coordinator of the International Ban Asbestos Secretariat: research files and publications rel to Kazan-Allen's work in the UK for the British Asbestos Newsletter and to her work for the International Ban Asbestos Secretariat 2017-2018 (Acc 1868)