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The publishers provide sales figures for copies of Ewart's book The Penycuik Experiments.

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The printers ask Ewart to inform them how many copies of The Penycuik Experiments he wishes to have, as they still have a considerable amount in store.

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: the Northern Switchboards' Conference; training sessions; the 10th anniversary celebrations for the Befriending Service; the treasurer's report; Radio Forth receiving a forged letter claiming the Switchboard has closed; and a report on a 'transvestism' seminar.Note that transvestism is a historical term used to describe individuals who wear clothes associated with a gender other than their gender assigned at birth.Also discussed is a request...

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Topics discussed include: a report on purchasing computers (a copy of the report is attached to minutes); vacant posts; concerns about renting out premises to non-gay groups; accommodation at the Cumbrae Conference; and a comment that West and Wilde are selling condoms and lubricant containing Nonoxynol‐9 (historically believed to prevent transmission of HIV).

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Topics discussed include: a report from the Treasurer covering finances; proposal regarding the purchasing of tea and coffee; the Drama Group; installing a bookshop; an update on discos; resignation of the editor of Gay Scotland; room alterations; and proposal to establish a youth group after the change of law with the introduction of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980.

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Topics discussed include: the stocking of Gay News in a Public Library; reports from the Befrienders and Bookshop Sub-Groups; fundraising and price rises; and an enquiry about banning someone from the premises.

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Topics discussed include: a vote to remove a member from the Branch Committee; a finance update; repots from subgroups (including: Women, Books, Hypermarket, Disco, National Executive Committee (NEC), Committee, Communications, and Development); a letter from Lothian Regional Council Labour Group discussing job discrimination; complaints received by members; and objections to a Christmas card stocked in the Open Gaze Bookshop.

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Correspondence sent by the Secretary of the Edinburgh Branch of the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG). Topics discussed include the Gay Centre’s book collective, the befriending group’s cheque book, and premises management.

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include training (including gay issues and awareness training for Lothian and Borders Police); statistics (attendance at team meetings), staffing (resignations); safer sex campaigning leaflets, both Lesbian safer sex and for men who have sex with men; HIV and AIDS education (including the Take Care Campaign); bus advertising campaign; Switchboard Meridian profile; the Age of Consent campaign; correspondence sent to members; the West and Wilde Bookshop Development Fund;...

Scope and Contents This ‘scrapbook of curiosity’ consists of 18th century original advertisements of Rare and Curious Books, Jests, Wits, Facetia, Books on Angling, Poetry from 1730 to 1771. The title page is written in neat, probably late-18th century manuscriptA compilation of over 170 advertisements for new publications, cut from a variety of daily, weekly and monthly periodicals of the mid-18th century. Many of the snippets ate dated, but the works from which they have been extracted are not...