Identity area
Reference code
GB 249 JCE/22/7/4
Title
Interview with William McIlvanney
Date(s)
- 1969 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
2pp. + 1 photograph
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
William McIlvanney was born in 1936 in Kilmarnock, Scotland. After graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1960, he trained to be a teacher at Jordanhill College of Education. He reached the position of assistant headmaster, but, in 1975, resigned to become a freelance writer. He is best known as a writer and poet. His works include Laidlaw, The Papers of Tony Veitch, and Walking Wounded.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Acc 90/08; Acc 98/18
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Copy of interview with William McIlvanney by Alison Clark, Alison R. Wilson and Allen J. Rowe in 'Release', January 1969; photocopy of photograph of William McIlvanney, c 1969.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English