Scotland | 20th century | Politics and government |
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Collection on the Study of Government in Scotland
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1076
Scope and Contents
Collection composed of: circa 200 separate copies of reports of investigation into complaints against the various Scottish local government councils, regional and district, carried out by the Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland, mainly 1970s; various planning documents, reports and news-sheets, including those on transport, community land schemes, Clyde recreation, crime, community councils, school and college councils, regional councils, housing, special housing, role of...
Dates:
1930-1980
Res.6.2 Elderly married couple, ages unknown, corporation tenants, female interviewer, 24 January 1962
Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/6/2
Scope and Contents
Housing: Complaints about the house include dampness, doors and windows not fitting, condensation, draughts. Very critical of the Differential Rent Scheme which will add ten shillings to their rent. Expresses belief that if the corporation insisted on young wage earners contributing to the rent then they should automatically have the tenancy when older family members die. They had previously been in Lochinvar Camp "a terrible place - a terrible rough lot down there". By contrast their...
Dates:
Other: 24 January 1962
Student notes and writing of Dr. Graeme D. Eddie, and other miscellaneous items
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1263
Identifier: Coll-1671
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: work on aspects of the output of Swedish writer Göran Tunström (1937-2000); material relating to study periods, and writing and publication while at Edinburgh and Aberdeen Universities, and afterwards; notes providing a picture of Edinburgh University Library at a time of transition in the mid-1990s; and, tracts and other publications, 1940s-1960s, relating to Scottish independence. The material being:
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Dates:
1987-2003