Rector, 1865-2003
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: EUA IN1/GOV/Da.12
Scope and Contents
Rectorial candidates' promotional literature:
- Material relating to Artemus Ward's campaign (1865)
- Rectorial election scrapbooks (1868 & 1871)
- Printed literature relating to rectorial elections (1890-1936)
- Election campaigns: 1951; 1951 (Waugh campaign); 1963; 1979; 1982; 1985; 1988; 1991; 1994; 2003
Rectorial addresses (texts) by:
- William Ewart Gladstone
- Thomas Carlyle
- Lord Moncreiff
- Sir William Stirling-Maxwell
- Earl of Derby
- Marquis of Hartington
- Earl of Roseberry
- Earl of Iddesleigh
- George Joachim Goschen
- J.P.B. Robertson
- Lord Balfour of Burleigh
- Winston Churchill (copy)
- Sir Sydney A. Smith
- James Robertson Justice
- Archie Macpherson
Rectorial administration:
- Election posters (1932-1942)
- Election administration (1929-1945)
- Rectorial address administration (1933-1935)
Other Rectorial items:
- Rectorial election sketches (1883)
- Sketches in the Quad: humorous postcard from Rectorial election of 1902
- 'Vote Birsay button (c1967-1970)
- Sermon by Malcolm Muggeridge, St Giles Cathedral (1968)
- Winston Wins, Edinburgh University Library publication by Peter Freshwater (1994)
Dates
- Creation: 1865-2003
Creator
- University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Certain material may be restricted due to Data Protection and other legislative reasons.
Extent
2 boxes
Archivist's Note
A number of items have steel fastners requiring removal.
Grant Buttars 02 November 2005
Creator
- University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) (Organization)
Subject
- Browne, Charles Farrar, 1834-1867 (aka Artemus Ward) (Person)
- Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (historian, essayist and philosopher) (Person)
- Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-, 1874-1965 (Knight | Prime Minister of Great Britain) (Person)
- Gladstone, William Ewart, 1809-1898 (British statesman and Liberal politician) (Person)
- University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) (Organization)
- University of Edinburgh. Rector (Organization)
- Box: EUA-A-376 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: EUA-A-377 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: EUA-A-378 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: EUA-A-379 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: EUA-A-966 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: EUA-A-967 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: EUA-A-968 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: EUA-A-969 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: EUA-A-970 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: EUA-A-971 (Mixed Materials)
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Contact:
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk