Papers of H.W.C. Davis

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Top. Oxon. c. 594-5, c. 598-604, c. 615-19, c. 624, d. 566-96, d. 624-33, e. 432-62, e. 479-518, f. 66
  • Dates of Creation
    • 19th-20th century
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 128 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Notes and lectures, with some miscellaneous papers, of H.W.C. Davis, mainly relating to English and European history.

Administrative / Biographical History

Henry William Carless Davis (1874-1928) was Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

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.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

The papers were given to the Library, 1967-70.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, nos. 54797-924.