Papers connected with Shiela's work at the BBC 1940-1944, including later papers relating to colleagues
MS. Grant Duff 8
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Papers connected with Shiela's work at the BBC 1940-1944, including later papers relating to colleagues
Shelfmark
MS. Grant Duff 8
Summary
Includes
Correspondence with Professor Reginald Betts regarding Czechoslovakia, 1943-1950, with an obituary of Betts, 1961. With letters concerning possible work in the extra-mural department of the University of Birmingham suggested by Reginald Betts, 1950.
Letters from Lev Braun [a journalist colleague from Czechoslovakia], 1944-1995, with a typescript copy of Braun's thesis on Albert Camus.
Radio broadcast by and letters from Josef Korbel and his son, 1945, 1951-1977
Copies of articles by others about the Czech government in exile during World War 2, n.d. [late 20th cent.], with list of expenses of the Czechoslovak National Committee in Paris and notes, n.d. [c.1940]
Miscellaneous letters about Czechoslovakia from Czechs, BBC colleagues, and others commenting on Sheila's work, 1936-1994
Date
1936-1995
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box
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Collection contents
Archive of Shiela Grant Duff, with Grant Duff and Lubbock family papers
Papers of Shiela Grant Duff, later Shiela Newsome, afterwards Shiela Sokolov Grant
Correspondence and papers relating to Shiela's career as a journalist and later writings, with related materials
Papers connected with Shiela's work at the BBC 1940-1944, including later papers relating to colleagues
