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Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)

 Subject

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

Found in 182 Collections and/or Records:

Records of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-227
Scope and Contents The records of the Phrenological Society include, within boxes: cash book; catalogues of skull casts and other; papers of the Society; six notebooks including lecture titles, names of members and visitors who inspected the casts, and a "memoir on the phrenology of Hindostan" read to the Society in 1823. The records also include a letter-book covering the period 1820-1840, minute-books for 1820-1870, and scrap-books of newspaper cuttings and printed items. Some material is stamped: Henderson...
Dates: 1820-1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Redevelopment of Coventry - general material, 1939-1945

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/1
Scope and Contents

Redevelopment of Coventry - general material consists of:


  1. general papers, c1945
  2. general photographs, 1939
  3. press clippings and articles, 1940-1944
  4. plans,c1941-1943
Dates: 1939-1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department

Redevelopment of Coventry - housing, c1940-1944

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/2
Scope and Contents

Redevelopment of Coventry - housing subseries consists of:


  1. material relating to the opening of the Canley Estate houses, 18 December 1941
  2. photographs of the Canley Estate,c1941
  3. press clippings and journal articles concerning Coventry's housing developments, 1940-1944
  4. plans for housing, a nursery and a panoramic view, c1940
Dates: c1940-1944
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department

Redevelopment of Coventry - press clippings and articles, 1940-1944

 File
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/1/3
Scope and Contents

Collection of press clippings and articles concerning the redevelopment of Coventry. These appeared in a number of newspapers and journals including the Indian Forces newspaper "Contact", the "Coventry Herald" and "Illustrated". Authors include Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson and Frank Tilsley

Dates: 1940-1944
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - general material

Rhodesia, 1972-1975

 File — Box CLX-A-15: Series Coll-490/3; Series Coll-490/4; Series Coll-490/5
Identifier: Coll-490/5/RHO
Scope and Contents

Prospectus: Ranch House College.


Pamphlets: 'White Working Class Disunity'- the Southern Rhodesia Labour Party. M. C. Steele, 1970; Southern Rhodesia Place Names - 'Love and Legend'.


Newspaper cuttings: Racial discrimination - 1972; Victoria Falls talks 1975.

Dates: 1972-1975
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 5: University College of Rhodesia

Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London: files, 1937-1959

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/C/1
Scope and Contents File of papers and press clippings relating to the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, 1957-1960. This was Percy Johnson-Marshall's own file and contains information directly relating to the Commission, as well as information relating to the governance of London generally. The file contains: evidence submitted to the Commission from a number of bodies including: the British Group of...
Dates: 1937-1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London

Scrapbook album compiled by Violet de la Mare, including two manuscript poems by Walter de la Mare

 Item — Box CLX-A-354
Identifier: Coll-1834
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook album compiled by Violet de la Mare, sister-in-law of poet Walter de la Mare. It contains numerous newspaper clippings, some relating to de la Mare's fiction and articles by him; and two unpublished poems by Walter to his nephew James Roy Delamare.

Dates: 1884-1950
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings and diplomas relating to Professor James Syme

 Fonds — Volume Df.3.41
Identifier: Coll-2891
Scope and Contents This is a scrapbook entitled "Literary Scraps: Cuttings from Newspapers, Extracts, Miscellanea, etc.", containing newspapers clippings, diplomas, and correspondence relating to Scottish surgeon Professor James Syme. Clipping: report of a meeting to found the "Syme Testimonial", 11 November 1869. Diploma of Honorary Member of the "Society for purchasing Books at Leadhills", 2 May...
Dates: 1838-1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Scrapbook of Edinburgh University student Ella MacGregor, 1920s

 Item — Box CLX-A-345
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0181
Scope and Contents Scrapbook/diary of Ella MacGregor, an Edinburgh University student in the 1920s. It contains handwritten autobiographical accounts and thoughts, cuttings of poems and songs, copies of photographs of people involved in the University's student life (for example, V. K. Mowat, joint editor of the Student 1923-24; John B. Colquhoun, President of the Union; Lilian M. Roger, President of Edinburgh University Unionist Association), of famous people who visited the University (G. K. Chesterton;...
Dates: 1920s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Scrapbook of James Finlay Weir Johnston (1796-1855), chemist of Agricultural Society of Scotland

 Fonds
Identifier: MS JOH
Scope and Contents Volume of newspaper clippings, letters, and printed pamphlets. The subjects covered change with the orientation of the book:From the front, the subject is the Irish Potato Famine, and contains materials dated 1845-1846. Interleaved throughout the newspaper clippings are letters and notes, as well as pamphlets about potato disease, many of which are written by Johnston. Other sources for the pamphlets include the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, reports by John F. Hodges, the...
Dates: 1845-1851
Found in: New College Library Special Collections