IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0370 PP21
Held at: Queen Mary, University of London
Title: BINDOFF, Stanley Thomas (1908-1980)
Date(s): [1950-1974]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 23 boxes
Name of creator(s): Bindoff | Stanley Thomas | 1908-1980 | historian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1908; educated at Brighton Grammar School and University College London, 1926; research assistant, professional indexer and history tutor; staff at University College London, 1935; naval intelligence division of the Admiralty; first Professor of History at Queen Mary College, 1951; died, 1980.
Publications: Tudor England (Pelican History of England series, 1950).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Professor Stanley Bindoff, c 1950-1974 including correspondence circa 1938-1972, notably with University College Rhodesia, Harvard University and the Brighton Education Committee; papers relating to the Board of Studies in History, c 1969-1975; lecture notes; London University's Senate House Victoria County History Committee minutes and correspondence and applications to the History department and related correspondence.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Original order
Conditions governing access:
The Archives are available for access in an Archives Reading Room located on the 2nd Floor of the Mile End Library. The Archives Reading Room is open Tuesdays to Thursdays 10am-4.30pm and Monday and Friday by appointment only. Users are invited to contact the Archives in advance, so that more information can be supplied concerning archive collections of relevance to their research. Contact the Archives for more information: Archives, Mile End Library, QMUL, 328 Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, telephone: 020 7882 3873, email: archives@qmul.ac.uk. For more information about the Archives see the website: www.library.qmul.ac.uk/archives
Conditions governing reproduction:
Applications for copies for research or publication should be made to the College Archivist: Lorraine Screene, Main Library QMUL, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, telephone 020 7882 7556, email archives@qmul.ac.uk
Finding aids:
Box list available in the reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated to the Archive after Bindoff's death in the early 1980s.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008