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Collection of United States Consular Reports

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Identifier: Coll-547
Scope and Contents The US Consular Reports are a collection of information about the economies and markets of other countries - in this case Scotland. They provide statements about the imports and exports between the main ports of Scotland and the US based on the accounts of US consuls in Edinburgh, Leith, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, and other Scottish towns. There is economic information on Clyde shipbuilding, Dundee trade and social conditions, the bicycle market, the sugar industry, locomotive building, and...
Dates: 1855-1885

Collection of University law medals of James S H Allan

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1609
Scope and Contents

5 x medals, University of Edinburgh, being:


  1. Civil Law - 1953-54
  2. Public law - 1953-54
  3. Mercantile law - 1954-55
  4. Conveyancing - 1955-56
  5. Evidence & Pleading - 1955-56

Each medal is contained in a medal box - Alexander Kirkwood and Son, Medalists, St. James Square, Edinburgh.

Dates: 1953-1956

Collection of Works of Rev. Thomas A. Pye

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Identifier: Coll-516
Scope and Contents

The works of the Rev. Thomas A. Pye consist of:The Jesus Christ of Greeceon Socrates,A comparison of Aristotelian and Christian ethics,The seal of Roman Law on early Christianity, andThe influence of Christianity on Roman Law.

Dates: 20th century

Collection on the Study of Government in Scotland

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1076
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: 1930-1980

Collection relating to Eric Henry Liddell

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-218
Scope and Contents

Small collection of items, from multiple sources, relating to Eric Liddell.


Annual sports programmes of Edinburgh University Athletic Club, 1923-1925, showing Liddell's times in the races entered, and an annotated Scottish Inter-Universities programme, 1923; two photographs of a memorial stone in China; Wedding invitation.

Dates: Majority of material found within 20th century

Collection relating to James Stewart Fraser

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1263
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: - copy of 'Gardyloo', 2 March 1940 - copy of 'Gardyloo', 29 April 1944 - copy of 'The Chalmers Watson Journal', 1935 (Rectorial election - D. Chalmers Watson) - copy of 'The Chalmers Watson Journal' (Once more a message on the eve of election) - 2 x copies of reprints of 'The Royal Medical Society', from...
Dates: 1935-1944

Collection relating to James Tait Black Memorial Prize

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1270
Scope and Contents At E2010.22 is an archive of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize retained by its first judge, Herbert Grierson, Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University, comprising letters from prizewinners including D.H. Lawrence, Arnold Bennett, Lytton Strachey and Robert Graves. While most of the letters in the collection are solicitor's typed carbon letters (letters to the administrating solicitor Robert Welsh of Ayr), five are original letters to Herbert Grierson from winners: Henry...
Dates: 1920-1935

Collection relating to Winifred Rushforth

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1260
Scope and Contents The Rushforth collection is composed of: In E2010.10: - material relating to the Davidson Clinic, being Minute Book 1938-1946, bank guarantee 1960, bank statements 1959-1961, Annual Reports of the Davidson Clinic 1942-1968; Davidson Clinic Bulletin 1946-1967, pamphlets and programmes of the clinic 1940s and 1950s, newspaper clippings, talks and papers, off-prints of articles, and journals...
Dates: 1855-1984

Coloured Panorama of Edinburgh

 Fonds — Frame: Barker Panorama
Identifier: Coll-1709
Scope and Contents

This small, watercolour version of Barker's first full Panorama is dated 1792. Its purpose is unclear, but it is related to a set of engravings published two years earlier.

Dates: 1792

Colquhoun catalogue of prints and pictures at Rossdhu, Luss

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Identifier: Coll-1521
Scope and Contents The catalogue is dated 18 May 1871 and signed 'Sir J. Colquhoun'. There is a bookplate, 'Sir James Colquhoun, Bart.'. The list is headed 'Prints [...] at Rossdhu - Luss', and includes listings of items in 'Family bed room', in 'Best Bed Room No.6', in 'Best Bed Room Dressing Room No.7', a listing of 'Round miniature portraits', listing of 'Second Best Bedroom No.8', in 'Blue Room No.9', in the 'Old Nursery No.4', the paintings or 'Pictures in Small Sitting Room', listing for the 'Entrance...
Dates: 1871

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Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (1868-1974) 3
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University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 3
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Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 2
Balfour-Melville, Evan Whyte Melville, 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history, University of Edinburgh) 2
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Christian Salvesen Ltd. (1872-2007) (shipping company) 2
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Davidson Clinic (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2
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Lawley, Derrick, 1915-2012 (statistician) 2
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