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Religion

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 394 Collections and/or Records:

Res.3.9 Female resident, c.30 yrs, married, waiting to be re-housed, male interviewer, 8 May 1961

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/3/9
Scope and Contents Accommodation: Refused relocation to a maisonette in Muirhouse due to it being several stories up and INTVEE's husband is an invalid. Family has been in the pre-fab for five years, previously lived in Dixon Street, Leith in a corporation flat with a kitchen and bathroom. Moved owing to husband's disability and now wish to move from prefab because son has to share a room with his two sisters. INTVEE likes the pre-fab despite the damp and not in a hurry to move. Little social contact with...
Dates: Other: 8 May 1961

Res.4.6 Female resident, age unkown, married, corporation tenant, female interviewer, 22 September 1961

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/4/6
Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her husband and six children. They are a religious family but don't attend church regularly but expect to so once the new church has been built. The children go to Sunday school. INTVEE expresses her dislike of the white church and mild outrage at the irreligious appearance and lack of religious atmosphere inside. INTVEE had moved to Wardieburn when she was two years old, thinks it has always been a friendly place. There was more strictness with children not allowed to play...
Dates: Other: 22 September 1961

Res.1.10 Female resident, 72 yrs, widowed, corporation tenant, male interviewer, 1 February 1961

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/1/10
Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her two sons in a three apartment house on the first floor of a three storey tenement. They have been in the house for 18 years and previously lived in Wardieburn having been moved there from Leith under the slum clearance scheme. They had moved to Granton after her husband died and thought it was much more respectable, there had been a lot of fighting on the stairs in Wardieburn. Her neighbours here are all very pleasant. One of her sons was decorating the bedroom with a...
Dates: Other: 1 February 1961

Res.1.13 Female resident, 62 yrs, widowed, corporation tenant, male interviewer, 10 February 1961

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/1/13
Scope and Contents INTVEE is a widow and lives with her son and daughter, 34 and 33 yrs. She and her family used to live near Easter Road in two rooms but managed to get a corporation house in 1946. They had been on the list for 12 years. She would have preferred somewhere nearer town where there are more shops. She knows most of her neighbours and finds them friendly. Her rent is £1 6 3d a week for the four apartment house. She used to go to the school to pay the rent but now a man comes round to collect it....
Dates: Other: 10 February 1961

Res.3.14 Female resident, age unknown, married, corporation tenant, female interviewer, 18 July 1961

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/3/14
Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Neighbourhood; employment and finance; local amenities; education: leisure; child rearing.Neighbourhood: INTVEE describes the street as friendly and neighbours as helpful, no drunkenness or brawls. Her husband thinks the Doo'cot pub is rowdy.House: INTVER describes the house as "very bare, the wallpaper dirty and torn, scanty and shabby furniture with bright pink lino from which the pattern has been largely rubbed off. There's an old TV and...
Dates: Other: 18 July 1961

Res.4.10 Female resident, age unknown, widowed, corporation tenant, male interviewer, 28 September 1961

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/4/10
Scope and Contents INTVEE lives alone in a three apartment, ground floor flat in a block of six. INTVER thinks that the street looks scruffy with some unattended gardens and harling fallen off. INTVEE says a man from the corporation came and knocked more harling off but has not been back to fix it. INTVEE burst into tears twice during the interview over the death of her husband in February. She thinks it would be a lot easier if she could find a job to do. She had previously worked at a house where there was a...
Dates: Other: 28 September 1961

Res.4.19 Female resident, 53 yrs, married, corporation tenant, male interviewer, 9 October 1961

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/4/19
Scope and Contents INTVEE lives on a ground floor five apartment house. There are six adults including her married daughter and two children. When she married they lived with her mother but then got a house near Victoria Street where there were eight on the stair and they were the only Protestants. Her mother made her feel guilty about no longer having any money coming in but she hadn't approved of the marriage and was always trying to cause trouble. INTVEE likes her present house, her only complaint is the...
Dates: Other: 9 October 1961

Resounding defeat for Section 28 supporters, 11 Feb 2000

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Identifier: GD61/11/2/4/129/3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: 11 Feb 2000

Rev Bruce Ritter (The Scotsman), 18 Oct 1999

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Identifier: GD61/11/2/3/178
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: 18 Oct 1999

Right sentiment, but wrong execution, 11 Feb 2000

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Identifier: GD61/11/2/4/129/1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: 11 Feb 2000