Shelfmark
MS 522
Title
Materials by and relating to Robert Birley / collected by N.R.F. Welsh.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1967-1984.
Physical description
1 envelope (23 items) ; 38 cm.
Note
Devised title.
Note
Location of production assumed from material.
Note
Letters, newspaper cuttings, and photocopies of articles by or about Robert Birley; from various associates, such as Elinor Birley and Nick Welsh; collected by Nick Welsh, and covering 17 years (1967-1984).
Formatted contents note
Contents: 1) Birley, Elinor, ALS to Sally and NRF Welsh, 13 August, [1982] -- 2) ---, ALS to NRF Welsh, February -- 3) [Birley, Robert,] Clipping from The Times, 3 August 1982 -- 4) [---,] Obituary from The Times -- 5) [---,] Obituary from Die Zeit, 31 August 6, 1982 (photocopy), with translation into English by Gerhard R. Schade -- 6) [---,] Service of thanksgiving order of service, 23 October 1982 -- 7) Birley, Robert, ALS to NRF Welsh, 17 February 1967 -- 8) ---, ALS to NRF Welsh, 17 May 1967 -- 9) ---, ALS to NRF Welsh, 15 May 1968 -- 10) ---, ALS to NRF Welsh, 1 June 1969 -- 11) ---, ALS to Ruth, 14 September 1971 -- 12) ---, ALS to NRF Welsh, 9 November 1973 -- 13) ---, ALS to NRF Welsh, 13 June 1975 -- 14) ---, ms. notes on local churches, 2 June 1975 -- 15) ---, ‘Leontes’ jealousy’ (autograph manuscript) -- 16) ---, ‘Universities and utopia’, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1965 -- 17) Nicolson, Nigel, ‘Robert Birley’, The Independent Magazine, 13 January 1990 -- 18)
Van Oss, Oliver, typescript of address given at Robert Birley’s memorial service -- 19) Waugh, Auberon, review of Red Robert published in the Daily Mail (photocopy) -- 20) Welsh, NRF, ALS to Elinor Birley, 26 July, 1982 (photocopy) -- 21) ---, typescript memoir of Robert Birley, along with letters sent to him in response, 1983 -- 22) Yates, Anne, letter to the editor of the Daily Mail, 25 January 1984 (copy) -- 23) Archie, ALS to NRF Welsh, 1 October 1983
Summary, etc.
Scope and content: Around 25 items relating to or by Robert Birley, including ALS, printed letters, newspaper cuttings, and photocopies.
Provenance
Donated to ECL by N.R.F. Welsh in April 2012.
Provenance
Robert Birley (1903-1982) was a history master at Eton 1926-1935 after which time he left to become headmaster of Chaterhouse, until 1947. After the Second World War he was appointed educational advisor to the Allied Control Commission for Germany. Two years later he became headmaster of Eton, a post he retained until 1963. From 1964-1967 he was visiting professor of education at the Universty of the Witwatersrand, and was head of the social science and humanities department at City University, London 1967-1971.
Subject
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Added entry--place
England.
Identifier
B46253