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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
Material relating to the Needlework Development Scheme
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2053
Content Description
This fonds consists of slides, bulletins, and printed ephemera produced by the Needlework Development Scheme to support and contribute to the advancement of embroidery in Scotland and in the UK between 1934 and 1961.
The donated material also included books published by the Needlework Development Scheme, and NDS-related publications that feature their work. These have now been transferred to Rare Books collections.
Dates:
mid-20th century
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
Papers of Anne M. M. Swanson relating to the British Association for Early Childhood Education
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2087
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of the papers of Anne M. M. Swanson relating to the BAECE (British Association for Early Childhood Education, formerly Nursery School Association (NSA)), dating from 1907 to 1993.The papers include:- A children's book entitled A Year of Song for a Baby in a Garden, signed and dedicated by the author Graham Robertson in 1907;
- A file with typed and manuscript documents (including minutes) relating to the NSA in...
Dates:
1907-1993; Majority of material found within 1970s-1980s
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
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
Papers of Marjorie Rackstraw
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-705
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: sorted letters, cards, newspaper cuttings; photographs; a file on displaced persons, notes of reminiscences for broadcast; Automobile Association documents; letters from Sara Margery Fry (1874-1958); book on Sara Margery Fry; cassette tapes; biographical papers; pamphlets on Masson Hall, Edinburgh University; a report on women students; album of photographs relating to Masson Hall; newsletter of the Masson Association; several dozen foreign and domestic picture...
Dates:
1904-1981
Photographs and badges of Johanna Harris, former student at the Dunfermline College of Hygiene and Physical Training
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2120
Content Description
This fonds consists of material related to the Dunfermline College of Hygiene and Physical Training [later renamed the Dunfermline College of Physical Education] that belonged to Johanna (Jo) Harris, a former student.
27 small photographs of College life taken by Johanna Harris during her time there as a student, from 1928 -1931. This includes a trip to Sweden by the students;
1 large...
Dates:
1928-1931
Records of the Dunfermline College of Physical Education Old Students' Association
Collection
Identifier: EUA GD55
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises: the records of Dunfermline College Old Students' Association (DCPE OSA), including governance and membership records, publications and records relating to Dunfermline College of Physical Education (DCPE), which may have been made up of donations from OSA members (see Custodial History); and donations of items from former College students relating to both the DCPE and DCPE OSA. The collections are varied and include photographs, artefacts and uniforms as well as...
Dates:
1905-2018
Scottish Eastern Association, Medical Women's Federation
Fonds
Identifier: GD51
Scope and Contents
Minutes, publications (such as annual reports), correspondence, campaigning papers, and ephemera.
Dates:
1915-2012
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive