Bob McLean
- Location: University of Stirling Archives and Special Collections
- Reference Number: SPA/BM
- Date: 1970 - 1995
- Description: Bob McLean, as he was always known (in politics if not by his family), was born in Penicuik to his father, also Bob, an HGV driver, and his mother Sarah. An only child, he was educated at Lasswade High School before heading north to study history at Aberdeen University. At the end of his degree, he took a sabbatical upon his election as president of the Students' Representative Council, through which he then became Scottish president of the National Union of Students.
Robert McLean was a leading figure in the "Nationalist wing" of Labour politics in Scotland. He was a key figure of those who, established Scottish Labour Action (SLA), a pro-Home Rule grouping impatient to deliver a devolved Assembly in Edinburgh, and equally impatient with old-fashioned Scottish Left politics.
Following the 1979 Referendum he was instrumental as Vice Convenor of the Campaign for a Scottish Assembly (CSA), later the Campaign for a Scottish Parliament (CSP). The bulk of this collection relates to the History of the CSA which he recounted in the 2005 book Getting It Together. The collection includes research notes for the book and draft chapters.
Also included are materials for his publication Labour and Home Rule. - Level: Sub-Collection
- Extent: 27 files
- Contact: University of Stirling Archives
