The records of the Dunfermline College of Physical Education Old Students' Association have a somewhat complex custodial history which is intertwined with the records of the College itself (EUA IN16). These collections were originally held at the College's campus at Cramond, outside Edinburgh. In 1986 DCPE merged with Moray House College of Education and in 1990 a formal association was formed between Moray House and Heriot-Watt University. A preliminary listing of the records was made by Heriot-Watt as part of the Non-Formula Funding Scottish Higher Education Funding Council Specialised Research Collections in the Humanities (1995-1999). When Moray House merged with the University of Edinburgh in 1998, Edinburgh University Library Special Collections took over de facto responsibility for the collections, but as the records were still held on the Moray House campus (at Holyrood, following the closure of the Cramond campus), this was devolved largely to an Honorary Archivist, who handled enquiries, the intellectual control and arrangement of and ongoing accruals to the records. The records were brought physically on site to Edinburgh University Library in 2008 following the opening of the Centre for Research Collections. Due to this complex instititional and custodial history and sporadic provenance records, there is some ambiguity between corporate records and donations, as well as legacy issues surrounding previous professional practices.