P G BALES, HONORARY BOROUGH ARCHIVIST: RESEARCH PAPERS

Comprising: Transcripts from the Doncaster borough archives of account books, rentals and oath book 1532-1678; extracts from published sources on the history of Doncaster 13th century to 18th century; annual reports of the honorary borough archivist 1945-1949; other records 1928-1948

P G Bales MC MA, head of history at Doncaster Grammar School, became Honorary Borough Archivist in 1944, although his interest in the borough archives long predated his appointment. He became the first county archivist of Cambridgeshire in 1946.

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