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Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = PJM

Found in 188 Collections and/or Records:

Booklet entitled The Professional Photographer, and a newspaper clipping from The Scottish Field entitled "A Characteristic Portrait of Sir Walter Scott", February and April 1918

 Piece
Identifier: Coll-1073/6/96
Scope and Contents Booklet entitled The Professional Photographer, February 1918, published by Kodak Limited, Kingsway London, containing an article about David Octavius Hill and reproductions of his portraits. Pasted next to it is a newspaper clipping from The Scottish Field entitled "A Characteristic Portrait of Sir Walter Scott", dated April 1918, starting: "Mr Andrew Elliot, bookseller and publisher, Edinburgh, has just...
Dates: February and April 1918
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Hill and Adamson Calotypes / Calotype Portraits VI. Saphir-End.

Collection of documents relating to student theatre in Edinburgh gathered together by Grahame Bulfield

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-375
Identifier: Coll-1892
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 67 physical items, mainly theatre programmes, hand-outs, and newspaper cuttings relating to student theatre in Edinburgh in the late 1960s. Also includes an inventory, and a list of known student performances in Edinburgh from autumn 1964 to summer 1972. Most items are originals, but a few are copies.Click ...
Dates: late 1960s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Collection of Edinburgh University Dramatic Society programmes gathered together by Anne (Padi) Mathieson

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1581
Identifier: Coll-1798
Content Description This collection of programmes of the Edinburgh University Dramatic Society and Edinburgh Graduates Theatre Group includes those for the years...:1948-1954 1 x programme for 'What say they?', performed at Little Theatre by Edinburgh University Dramatic Society (EUDS), 10 November 1948. 2 x programmes for 'Varsity Vanities '49', performed at Little Theatre by Charities Revue, 29 April 1949. 1 x programme for 'Oedipus Rex', performed at Little...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1948-2010
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Collection of scripts, posters, flyers relating to Edinburgh University Student Dramatic Society and productions with the involvement of Derek Pugh

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1755
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: 1 x folder - Collection of programmes and promotional material of the Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group, Scottish Community Drama Association, and EU Dramatic Society - 'Beauty and the beast', a preliminary festival, 'The empty chair', 'The daughter of the dawn', 'Much ado about nothing', and 'King Lear', 1950-1958. 1 x folder - Printed copy of ...
Dates: 1951-1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Commonplace book entitled 'Fugitive Pieces', collected by Richard Gall (1776–1801)

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2935
Scope and Contents Commonplace book of Richard Gall, made up of clippings with occasional manuscript notes. Initial entries focus on the recent death of Robert Burns (1759-1796), but branch out into examples of Burns' work, and poems by other authors that centre generally on Scottish life and the city of Edinburgh.Identifiable authors and subjects of their work: E. [Ellen] Hyslop (1766-1852)William Roscoe (1753-1831)Edward Rushton (1756-1814)Eaglesfield...
Dates: 1649-1799
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Commonplace book of Helen Littlejohn

 Fonds
Identifier: MS LIT 1
Scope and Contents

Commonplace book containing newspaper clippings (1914-15), poems, and quotations. One poem is dated, 'Pretoria, December 1st 1901', and a clipping of a poem by Rumi, extracted from the Asiatic Journal, July 1839, is pasted on the inside cover.

'Miss Helen Littlejohn Feb. 1841' is written on front flyleaf.

Dates: 1841; 1901; 1914-1915
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Commonplace book of William H. Peyton

 Item — Box CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2058
Content Description

Commonplace book of William H. Peyton, indexed, c. 80,000 words. Copious notebook kept some of the time when the writer was visiting France and Switzerland, with references to Darwin and Huxley, and an autobiography at p. 181. Dated 1893-1898.


Also includes enclosures (mainly newspaper clippings), gathered in one folder.

Dates: 1893-1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Copy of a newspaper clipping concerning post-WWII rations, 9 November 1948

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1581, vol. 2, no. 60
Scope and Contents

This is a copy of an article in the Evening Dispatch from 9 November 1948. It concerns post-World War II ration cuts.

Dates: 9 November 1948
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Archive of productions of Varsity Vanities and various dramatic groups / Volume 2

Copy of a newspaper clipping concerning "What Say They?", 9 November 1948

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1581, vol. 1, no. 124
Scope and Contents

This is a zoomed in copy of an advertisement for "What Say They?" in the Evening Dispatch printed 9 November 1948.

Dates: 9 November 1948
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Archive of productions of Varsity Vanities and various dramatic groups / Volume 1

Correspondence between Beatty and Robert G. Edwards chiefly concerning the publicity surrounding in vitro fertilisation, 1969

 File
Identifier: Coll-1364/6/4
Scope and Contents

The material also contains handwritten notes and a draft annotated typescript titled 'Comments on the fertilization of human eggs in vitro' and a copy of The Times newspaper from 19 February 1969 containing a column on 'human life in the test-tube'.

Dates: 1969
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Richard Alan Beatty / Correspondence