Collection composed of: circa 200 separate copies of reports of investigation into complaints against the various Scottish local government councils, regional and district, carried out by the Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland, mainly 1970s; various planning documents, reports and news-sheets, including those on transport, community land schemes, Clyde recreation, crime, community councils, school and college councils, regional councils, housing, special housing, role of district councils, and re-organisation of the National Health Service in Scotland, mostly from the 1970s; earlier digests and reports including a 1953 Digest of Scottish Statistics, a 1948 report from the North of Scotland hydro Electric Board, material relating to the 1979 referendum on devolution for Scotland, Scottish National Party (SNP) promotional ephemera, copies of local financial returns from the 1930s through to the 1950s and beyond; publications and election ephemera of the SNP including several numbers of theScots independentfrom the 1930s, andScottish news and commentfrom the 1940s, and several pamphlets published by the SNP in the 1940s and 1950s on Scotland's relationship with the rest of the UK; circa 50 pamphlets and booklets by various Scottish publishers on Scottish themes, notably Scotland's relationship with the rest of the UK, 1940s and 1950s and some later; SNP policy documents and reports on the subject of devolution and Scottish independence; and, reports, letters, news-sheets, press releases and other documents issued by various agencies, bodies, associations and councils on their views and attitudes towards Scottish devolution, 1979.