Scottish Milk Marketing Board Special Collection

Newspaper cuttings spanning a period of forty-eight years, from a selection of local and national newspapers; photographs depicting board members; obituaries of board member and persons associated with the milk marketing industry in Scotland; health care issues, e.g. Heart Disease (Book 6); subsequent replies to reports/surveys; date, time and place of Scottish Milk Marketing Board AGMs over the decades; Urquhart, Robert. History of the Scottish Milk Marketing Board, T. & A. Constable Ltd: Edinburgh, 1979.

The Scottish Milk Marketing Board collection contains, 11 ledgers containing some 35,000 press cuttings arranged chronologically and 2 ledgers of press cuttings awaiting attention. A written history of the Scottish Milk Marketing Board is held with the press cuttings archive. Individual calendar of the collection have been, or are being, compiled and are available via the University of the West of Scotland, Library web page. This purpose built calendar can also be consulted at the University Library.

Open.

Gift: Milk Marketing Board, Paisley, 1998.

Arrangement incomplete as of, 15th March 2005.

Calendar indexing the collection chronologically available online via Library web site, Special Collections page; printed calendar listing collection held at University of the West of Scotland, Robertson Trust Library, Special Collections.

No known copies.

Fonds-level description compiled by Allison Buchanan, Special Collections Librarian, March 2005.

Applications for permission to quote should be sent to University's Chief Librarian.

This material has been appraised in line with standard GB 0605 procedures

Collection formerly in the custody of the creator.

None expected.

No related material.