Speeches

Scope and Contents Series of printed and manuscript addresses given by Charles Lyell, including: Printed Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, 20 February 1835. Lyell toasts Mantell's health. Galley proof of an Address delivered to the Royal Institution, Friday 4 February, [1840s - after 1846] 'The Fossil footmarks of a reptile in the coal-formation of the...

Scope and Contents C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert) James - Correspondence, Speeches, Bibliography. Letter from C. L. R. James to Professor George Shepperson, Edinburgh. He talks of his project to write memoirs of George Padmore, and thanks George Shepperson for his review of his writing. He believes a good review is valuable and this one had a great effect among the people of the University of Ibadan. At present, he is...

Scope and Contents The file contains material relating to East Africa, specifically reports, pamphlets and papers on Tanganyika and Uganda.Tanganyika: - Report of 'The United Nations Visiting Mission to Tanganyika 1954'. Speech by George Shepperson, Reader in Imperial and American History, University of Edinburgh, on the occasion of dinner to celebrate the Independence of Tanganyika, held by EU Jumbo Club.Uganda: - Constitution of the Uganda Peoples' Congress. - Policy...

Scope and Contents Letter from Patrick Reyntiens to Professor [Chris] Breward thanking him for the award of his honorary degree (Doctorate Honoris Causa) from the Edinburgh College of Art, dated 19 July 2015, Winterbourne Lodge, Ilminster. Reyntiens says that he has "the greatest regard for Edinburgh College of Art where [he] was for some three years just after the war".There is also a typed copy of Reyntiens' speech at the award ceremony at the University of Edinburgh on the 27th of June 2015,...

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"Moral Rearmament", manuscript, pen, 23pp. MacDiarmid’s speech to Aberdeen University Literary Society in debate on motion deploring Edinburgh International Festival ‘"happenings", 27 February 1964.

Content Description Two pages from two different issues of the London Illustrated News: title page from the No. 1279 vol. XLV (Saturday, September 24, 1864), showing an illustration of Charles Lyell giving a speech at Bath (caption: "The British Association at Bath: Sir Charles Lyell delivering the presidential address in the Theatre"); and a page from No. 1308, vol. XLVI (11 March 1865) showing a full-page engraved portrait of Charles Lyell. Admiral Lindesay...

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Pamphlet entitled Speech by the Right Hon. The Earl of Mansfield, in the House of Lords, 9th July 1877. Contains a transcription of the speech of William David Murray, Earl of Mansfield, defending the claim of John Francis Goodeve-Erskine to the Earldom of Mar.

Scope and Contents Government Publications: - Some comments on Mr Nyerere's speech at the Fourth Committee of the UN, 1957. - Proposals of the Tanganyika Government for a Republic, 1962. Report of the Presidential Commission on the Establishment of a Democratic one-party state, 1965. The Arusha Declaration and Tanu's policy on Socialism and Self-Reliance, 1967. Arusha Declaration – Answers to Questions, 1967.Nyerere's Pamphlets and an Article: - Democracy and the Party...

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His Excellency The President of Malawi's speeches - 1971.

• Opening of the C.P.A. Conference, 1971;
• Chileka Airport, January/February 1971;
• Opening and Closing of Parliament, MArch 1971;
• Bangwe Meeting, 11 April 1971;
• Tobacco Auction Floors, 9 June 1971;
• Republic Celebrations, July 1971;
• University of Malawi – Opening Ceremony