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Conferences

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 161 Collections and/or Records:

Minutes of the SMG Edinburgh Befriending Committee, 29 Oct 1974

 Item
Identifier: GD61/1/1/1/11
Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: a failed request for financial support; an update on possibility of providing support to gay people in prison; Friend packs to support befrienders; gay-friendly hotels in Edinburgh; the Samaritans Conference; suspension of the SMG's Encounter Group; an update on premises at 60 Broughton Street; and note of an upcoming Befriending Conference in London.

Dates: 29 Oct 1974
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) / Minutes / Minutes of the Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) and Predecessors / Minutes of the Scottish Minorities Group (SMG) Edinburgh Befriending Committee

Minutes of the SMG Edinburgh Befriending Committee, 29 Jun 1976

 Item
Identifier: GD61/1/1/1/29
Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: re-flooring 58A Broughton Street; a new staff member; a decision to discover more about "trans-sexual" organisations to better advise callers; publicity; and conference reports.

Please note the term transsexual has been quoted directly from the record. This term is used to describe individuals whose gender identity is different from their assigned sex at birth.

Dates: 29 Jun 1976
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) / Minutes / Minutes of the Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) and Predecessors / Minutes of the Scottish Minorities Group (SMG) Edinburgh Befriending Committee

Minutes of the SMG Edinburgh Befriending Committee Administrative Sub-Group, 16 Apr 1978

 Item
Identifier: GD61/1/1/1/45
Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: purchasing a filing cabinet; request for volunteers to attend Switchboard conference; reflections on the new system of recording information about callers; advertising; associated groups; security; request for speakers from different organisations; and an update on the 'TV/TS' group. Note: TV is an abbreviated form of the historical term transvestite used to describe individuals who wear clothes associated with a gender other than their gender assigned...
Dates: 16 Apr 1978
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) / Minutes / Minutes of the Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) and Predecessors / Minutes of the Scottish Minorities Group (SMG) Edinburgh Befriending Committee

Official Delegation to the Nazi leaders, 1936

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/6
Scope and Contents

Official Delegation to the Nazi leaders consists of:


  1. conference papers & reports
  2. copy of Zwei Jahre Arbeit an der Reichsautobahn (Two years' work on the Reich's motorway)
  3. newspapers
  4. notes and ephemera
Dates: 1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

Other Correspondence, 8 Oct 1994 - 8 Mar 1997

 File
Identifier: GD61/5/3/14
Scope and Contents

Correspondence received and sent by the Scottish Switchboards Association (SSA). Topics discussed include: early steering group information regarding objectives and purpose of SSA; meeting information and requests to attend; updates on the progress and development of SSA; membership training; the SSA constitution; conferences; and advertising and promotion including copies of promotional leaflets.

Dates: 8 Oct 1994 - 8 Mar 1997
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) / Projects and Groups / Scottish Switchboard[s] Assoc[iation]. Archives

Page mounted with four items, c.1957

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1057/6/2/93
Scope and Contents Recto: programme of the British Oil and Cake Mills Special Conferences 1957 (in Edinburgh, Preston and London); newspaper clipping under the headline 'How Poultry Can Resist Disease' (The Scotsman, 03 October 1957). Verso: close-up photograph of an inscription on a door frame reading 'Presented by the British Empire Cancer Campaign out of a donation from the Isaac Woolfson Foundation'; photograph of Alan Greenwood looking into the doorway of a...
Dates: c.1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Alan W. Greenwood / Photographs / Photographs from the Poultry Research Centre

Page mounted with programme of the Scottish Poultry Conference, Stirling (16 November 1955) and group photograph from the conference, 1955

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1057/6/2/91
Scope and Contents

The photograph is captioned: 'Dr Blount, Mr Cyril Thornber, Dr Greenwood, Miss McLeod, Dr Coles, Major Milne, Mr Martin and Colonel Smith.'

Dates: 1955
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Alan W. Greenwood / Photographs / Photographs from the Poultry Research Centre

Page mounted with two photographs, 1948-1950

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1057/6/2/36
Scope and Contents

The first photograph depicts Ahmed Abd-El-Ghaffar Yousef Saleh in academic gown (annotated 'graduated PhD 1948, University of Edinburgh'); the second photograph depicts W. Marshall, R. Coles, F.Hutt and Alan Greenwood taken at the Conference of Poultry Instructresses for Scotland held at the Poultry Research Centre, 08-09 August 1950.

Dates: 1948-1950
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Alan W. Greenwood / Photographs / Photographs from the Poultry Research Centre

Papers relating to conferences and other events, 1955-1982

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1364/4
Scope and Contents

Folders generally include correspondence along with schedules and programmes of the events.

Dates: 1955-1982
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Richard Alan Beatty

Papers relating to reports and visits, 1951-1981

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1364/5
Scope and Contents Contains: reports on visits to other institutions, such as Cambridge University and the Royal Veterinary College, University of London; report on Beatty's attendance at various conferences and congresses, including correspondence with the Agricultural Research Council; progress reports on research carried out by Beatty's colleagues and students; notes...
Dates: 1951-1981
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Richard Alan Beatty