This collection contains a sketch of the history of Persia, for inclusion in a World History (typescript text of two chapters, with hand-drawn map of Persia and copy photographs to be included as plates), November 1936.
Weech manuscript
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- ReferenceGB 29 EUL MS 233
- Dates of Creation1936
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical DescriptionOne volume
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Major William Nassau Weech was born in 1878, and was Senior Scholar of New College, Oxford. An assistant master of Cheltenham College, he subsequently became Headmaster of Sedbergh School, Cumbria (1912-1926). He was also Head of School at Winchester College. Author of World History; other publications include History of Sedbergh School, 1525-1925 (with Henry Lowther Clarke), 1925, and World history: the growth of Western civilisation (with R. Flenley), 1936
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Usual EUL arrangements apply.
Note
Listed by Charlotte Berry, Archivist, 12 May 2004, and encoded into EAD 2 June 2004.
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Currently unlisted.
Conditions Governing Use
Usual EUL restrictions apply.
Custodial History
Transferred in 2003 by the Arabic Subject Librarian from the book collection of the British Bank of the Middle East.
Bibliography
History of the World, William Nassau Weech, 1944