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Collection of recordings (78rpm) of a lecture given by Sir Godfrey Thomson in 1950

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1448
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of 5 (lacquer) acetate 78 rpm records containing a recording of a lecture on University teaching given by Godfrey H. Thomson in 1950.

Dates: 1950
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-42
Scope and Contents The collection contains reports and calendars of the Association between 1868 and 1888 as well as class register books, 1867-1892; minutes and scroll minutes spanning 1868 to 1970 (ELEA and EAUEW); certificates in arts and register of names, addresses and subjects passed; blank certificates and diplomas; printed pamphlets on the history of the Association; photographs of the first women graduates. There is the correspondence of Mrs Mary Crudelius; and, acceptances of honorary membership of...
Dates: 1868-1974
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Essays by Rev James Drummond (c.1805-1867), minister of Irvine Relief Church

 Collection
Identifier: MS DRU 3
Scope and Contents

Essays for the Relief Divinity Hall by James Drummond, Minister of Irvine Relief Church, 1841. Octavo volume with 133 leaves.

Interleaved with a biographical note from 1949 by Rev. Robert J. Drummond, donor of the item and grandson of the author. "Exercises usually prescribed in the fourth year of a student for the ministry in the Relief Church"

Dates: Majority of material found within 1841
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Lecture and teaching notes taken down by Diana K. Hastings while at Dunfermline College of Physical Education (1967-1970)

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1277
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of 3 files of manuscript notes taken down during the period of study, 1967-1970. There are notes from practical lectures and notes for teaching practice.

Dates: 1967-1970
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Material collected by Elsie G. Taylor

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1446
Scope and Contents Taylor's University of Edinburgh, B.Ed. degree graduation hood, 1948; First Class Certificate of Merit awarded to Elsie G. Taylor for her performance in Advanced Theory and History of Education, signed by Professor Godfrey Thomson, 1948; Sketch diagram of Room 70 showing positioning of staff and desks (collected by Professor Ian Deary during the Economic...
Dates: 1947-2007
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Material relating to the winding up of the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1419
Scope and Contents This collection of material largely relating to the winding up of the EAUEW is composed of: scrapbook of newspaper articles - mostly the Scotsman - about the Association from 1871 to 1879 copy of a booklet about the Association covering 1867-1967, by E.J.B.W copy of the Statutory Instrument, 1972 No.1185 (S.82) Education, Scotland. The David...
Dates: 1871-1973
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Arthur Ruffell Barlow

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-208
Scope and Contents The collection consists of material about the Church of Scotland mission in Kenya, about Kikuyu language and culture, and about the interests and concerns of Africans and their relation to the government. In particular it includes: Barlow's comments on and additions to theKikuyu-English Dictionaryby L.J. Beecher and G.S.B. Beecher (including volumes of the 1935 dictionary with Barlow's handwritten amendments) with correspondence (1956-1962) about the publication of a revised version;...
Dates: 1903-1965
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Dr. Thomas J. Watson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1079
Scope and Contents

The content of each notebooks varies, though within Watson's fields of interest. Each notebook entitled Vol.1 through to Vol.6. Manuscript.

Dates: 1930-1950
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Everitt Young

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1071
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of letters to Ivory Buchan (Margaret Ivory Ritchie Buchan) and includes: Edinburgh letters, 1931-1938, beginning on a regular basis in 1934, with comments on teacher training, and setting up a private school in Blackhall; South Africa letters, 1938-1951, going abroad for health reasons, early difficulties in South Africa, and about work in Benoni and Johannesburg.

Dates: 1931-1951
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1310
Scope and Contents Biographical and personal papers, c mid 19th century-1972; Publications authored and co-authored by Thomson, 1904-1954; Unpublished materials by Thomson, 1897-1954; Publications collected by Thomson regarding education, intelligence, psychology, and statistics, 1879-1971 Unpublished material collected by Thomson and authored by others, c mid 20th...
Dates: c1890s-1978
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 5
Moray House College of Education (1959-1991) 3
Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (1868-1974) 2
Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research 2
Lawley, Derrick, 1915-2012 (statistician) 2
Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 2
Armstrong College (University of Durham). Durham College of Science (1871 -) 1
Barlow, Arthur Ruffell, 1888-1965 (Scottish Missionary) 1
Bartlett, Maurice Stevenson, 1910-2002 (statistician) 1
Burt, Cyril Lodowic, Sir, 1883-1971 (educational psychologist) 1
Crudelius, Mary, 1839-1877 (campaigner for women's education) 1
Duff, James Fitzjames, Sir, 1898?1970 (educationist and academic administrator) 1
Dunfermline College of Physical Education 1
Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre (1907-1959) 1
Edinburgh Trust for the University Education of Women 1
Emmett, William B, fl mid 20th century (psychologist) 1
Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, 1890-1962 (English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist) 1
Hastings, Diana Kerr, fl. 1967-1970 (physical education teacher) 1
Hotelling, Harold, 1895-1973 (mathematician) 1
Kelley, Truman Lee, 1884-1961 (psychometrician, statistician) 1
Kenyan African National Union (founded 1960) 1
Kirkwood, James, c1650-1708 (advocate of parish libraries) 1
Ledermann, Walter (1911-2009) 1
Ledermann, Walter (Mathematician) 1
Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 1
McFarland, Henry Stewart Noel, 1924-1973 (educationist) 1
Mitchell, William Fraser 1
Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord, 1714-1799 1
Scottish Council for Research in Education (fl. 1928-2003) 1
Scottish Gymnastics (sports organisation) 1
St. George's Training College, Edinburgh 1
Taylor, Elsie Gwenllian, 1922- (B.Ed. graduate, University of Edinburgh) 1
Thomson, Hector, 1917-2008 (senior lecturer of ancient and modern Greek, University of Aberdeen) 1
Thomson, Jane, Lady, fl. 1890-1971 1
Thurstone, Louis Leon, 1887-1955 (psychometrician) 1
University of Durham (1832-:) 1
Watson, Dr., Thomas J., fl .1949-1967 1
Young, Janet Everitt Maclean, fl. 1931-1951, Teacher 1