Scotland
Found in 256 Collections and/or Records:
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1983-10 - 1983-12
Includes speech from the Glasgow Press Fund Luncheon [Scotland], Oct 83. Other subjects include: reasons for defeat in the General Election; the economic situation; health policy; a tribute to Michael Foot, former leader of the Labour Party; the shipping industry; American cruise missile bases in Britain; the disastrous effects of the international economy; Conservative health policy; education policy.
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1986-09
Includes: NK’s speech to the Trades Union Congress conference, with notes and briefings; NK’s Fabian lecture, "Democratic Socialism and the Future", with annotated text, notes and source material (Sept-Oct); NK’s speech to the Jamaican People’s National Party; a draft letter from NK to Roy Hattersley [Deputy leader] on defining Labour’s target on unemployment. Other subjects include: the steel industry; the New Right; Scottish devolution.
The Papers of Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso
The Papers of Jeremy Bray
The soundings off inlets in Tierra del Fuego explain depth of lakes in Scotland, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Transcript of interview: Dame Mariot Leslie, 2017
The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.
(Untitled), 20 Jul [1924]
Letter from 2nd Lord Linlithgow (19th Armoured Car Company, The Camp, Belhaven, Dunbar, [East Lothian, Scotland]) to WSC on his efforts as the president of the Linlithgow Unionist Association to secure cooperation between Liberals and Conservatives in the constituency. Asks whether WSC can persuade Sir James Calder to declare his support for WSC and defy the local diehard Liberals. Encloses CHAR 2/134/28.
(Untitled), [Jul] [1924]
Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to 2nd Lord Linlithgow promising to communicate with Sir James Calder [about cooperating with the Conservatives in the Linlithgow constituency] and asserting that Calder would be a much better MP than Emanuel Shinwell. Carbon copy.
(Untitled), 31 Jul 1924
Letter from 2nd Lord Linlithgow (Belhaven Camp, Dunbar, [East Lothian, Scotland]) to WSC on the need for Sir James Calder to undertake to give qualified support to a Conservative administration if a satisfactory electoral arrangement is to be reached in the Linlithgow Division.
(Untitled), 08 Aug 1924
Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Sir James Calder offering to discuss with him the position in the Linlithgow constituency [West Lothian, Scotland] and stressing the importance of Liberals and Conservatives cooperating against Socialism. Carbon copy.
(Untitled), 22 Apr 1924
Letter from Sir Joseph Dobbie (42 Melville Street, Edinburgh, [Scotland]) to WSC (Crockham Hill, Sevenoaks, [Kent]) arguing that a new Liberal Unionist organisation pledged to oppose Socialism in cooperation with the Conservatives would receive much support in Scotland and inviting WSC to address a meeting of the National Citizen's Union in Edinburgh.
(Untitled), 04 Sep 1924
Letter from Sir Robert Horne [later Lord Horne of Slamannan] (59 Pall Mall, London) to WSC (Chartwell) on the excitement caused by their forthcoming meeting in Edinburgh [Scotland] and on WSC's and Horne's respective views on Ireland.
(Untitled), 29 Sep 1924
Letter from Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] (Dalnawillan, Altnabraec, Caithness, [Scotland]) to WSC congratulating him on his Edinburgh speech, complaining of the "defeatist" attitude of the Scottish Conservative press towards the Anglo-Russian treaty, and stressing the need for David Lloyd George to "stick to his guns.".
(Untitled), 27 Sep 1924
Letter from Sir James Calder (Leith, [Scotland]) to 2nd Lord Linlithgow (Hopetoun House, South Queensferry [West Lothian, Scotland]) explaining that he has withdrawn as Liberal candidate for Linlithgowshire because he believes that there are too many extremists to enable his ideas of Liberal-Conservative cooperation to be carried out successfully. Copy sent with CHAR 2/134/152.
(Untitled), 07 Oct 1924
Letter from Katherine, Duchess of Atholl (84 Eaton Place, [London]) to WSC reporting that Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] seemed to give a negative response to the 8th Duke of Atholl's suggestion of Liberal-Conservative co-operation in his constituency [Caithness, Scotland] but promising that the matter will be carefully considered in the light of WSC's advice that Sinclair should not be opposed.
(Untitled), 31 Oct 1924
(Untitled), 12 Sep 1922
(Untitled), 13 Sep 1922
(Untitled), 08 Sep 1922
Letter from William Munro (25 George Street, Perth, [Scotland]) to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] on discussions between the National Liberals and Unionists in East Perthshire on which party should put up a candidate in the constituency in the next election. Copy sent with CHAR 2/124B/155-159.
(Untitled), 09 Sep 1922 - 11 Sep 1922
(Untitled), [Dec] [1913]
Memorandum by [John Cathcart Wason] on the danger to the Empire posed by the current Home Rule crisis and suggesting that local parliaments for Ireland, Scotland, Wales and, possibly, the English regions on the Canadian and Australian federal model could be the answer. Typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/62/123.
(Untitled), [Dec] [1913]
Cutting from the Dundee Advertiser: speech by John Cathcart Wason advocating local parliaments for Ireland, Scotland, Wales, London and, possibly, English regions.
(Untitled), 24 Nov 1919
Letter from [WSC] to Lord Curzon recommending that the 5th Duke of Sutherland, who has great political influence in Scotland, should deal with Scottish business in the House of Lords. Another copy at CHAR 2/106/124-125. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 21 Mar 1935
Letter from 8th Duke of Atholl [earlier Lord Tullibardine] (98 Elm Park Gardens [London]) to WSC on the political situation in East Perthshire [Scotland] between the outgoing Conservative MP, Lord Scone and the Liberal activist and possible candidate Francis Norie-Miller, and the bad effect it would have, both on Randolph Churchill and "Kitty" [Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, and MP for Kinross and Western] if Randolph Churchill also stood as a candidate.
(Untitled), c 1919
Picture postcards of Hamilton Palace [Larnarkshire, Scotland] and wild white cattle in Cadzow Forest, Hamilton.