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New Year

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

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of Victorian printed ephemera

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1982
Content Description

Collection of 32 Victorian printed ephemera, in colour: greeting cards, birthday cards, New Year and Christmas cards, religious cards with short prayers, a Valentine card, and two advertisements for Heinz and Ivelcon. Some cards are annotated in the back by the people who sent or received them.

Dates: 19th - early 20th century

Custom regarding dust and ashes at New Year, 1884

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/264
Scope and Contents

Custom regarding dust and ashes at New Year, that they should not be put out but be kept behind the door to [keep out the fairies] (text is unclear).

Dates: 1884

Gay Scotland, Issue 6, Jan 1983 - Feb 1983

 Item
Identifier: GD61/10/2/7
Scope and Contents Front cover reads: "Pull Together for ’83!"Contents include: an editorial; news and reports; adverts; "Gay Broadcasting", which reports on the first international forum on homosexual radio and television held in Brussels in 1892; "Gay Women’s Page"; youth news, views; leisure and pleasure; "David's Bed", a short story by Derek Ogg; "Screw on the Turn", a short story by E. Beckett; "World Gaze"; "Regular Features"; "Book Reviews"; classified ads; and letters to the editor....
Dates: Jan 1983 - Feb 1983

Minutes of the EGS Trust Team Meeting, 16 Dec 1992

 Item
Identifier: GD61/1/1/4/85
Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: call cards; trainee applications; Lesbian Line update; membership update; Christmas and New Year phone duties; fundraising evening; request for a speaker from Outright Scotland, previously Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG); the Gay Business Club; and a new group named Men Against Sexual Abuse.

Dates: 16 Dec 1992

Song entitled 'Duan Callaig' [Song of Hogmanay], 1895

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/66
Scope and Contents

Song written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Duan Callaig' [Song of Hogmanay] beginning 'A noch an oidhche mu dheireadh, na bhliadhna 's bidhibh fialaidh rium sa n fhardraich dol a ghabhail mo Dhuan Callaig'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1895