War-time diaries of H.W.B. Joseph

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Top. Oxon. e. 288-9
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1914-18, 1939-42
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Two diaries, 4. Aug. 1914 -12 Nov. 1918, and 20 Sept. 1939 - 2 July 1942, kept as an account of how war affected an 'ordinary citizen'.

Administrative / Biographical History

Horace William Brindley Joseph (1867-1943) was a Fellow of New College, Oxford . See the Dictionary of National Biography for details.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk).

Acquisition Information

Given to the Library in 1943.

Note

Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

P.S. Spokes, Summary Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library relating to the city, county, and university of Oxford. Accessions from 1916 to 1962 (Oxford, 1964).

Geographical Names

Oxford, England