This collection consists of approx. 50 notebooks and bound volumes of notes taken by Giles as a student at Balliol College, and as a lecturer in Classical History at the University of Edinburgh. Also includes a typescript entitled 'On Land, Sea and Ice. An Autobiography' by J. Burn Wood, 1947.
It also includes one photograph album and eight individual photographs acquired later, all related to Alexander F. Giles and his family.
Alexander Falconer Giles graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MA in 1904, and then went to study at Balliol College sometime before 1914. He came back to the University of Edinburgh to teach as a Lecturer in Classical History from the 1920s to the 1940s. He became the Deputy Secretary of the University in 1922.
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Lecture notes and medal donated in August 2017, accession no SC-Acc-2018-0150.
Photographs purchased in August 2018, accession no SC-Acc-2019-0049.
Catalogued by Aline Brodin in March 2018. Photographs catalogued in April 2019.
