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Records of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), 1922-1997, comprising:
photographs of SSEES staff and buildings, 1922-1984; SSEES Library administrative records, 1923-1994; audio tapes of lectures, speeches, discussions and broadcasts by SSEES staff or recorded at SSEES events, 1987-1993; papers on and by SSEES, 1955-1996; SSEES student newsletters, including copies of "Velesh", "Wipiwop" and "The Graduate Post", 1977-1997; correspondence and papers on proposals for SSEES' amalgamation with Queen Mary College, 1973-1974, discussions on SSEES' future with London University, 1974, and amalgamation discussions with King's College, 1975; correspondence and papers on SSEES' proposed amalgamation with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), 1985; correspondence and papers on SSEES' proposed relocation to the Westfield College site, 1986-1987; SSEES promotional videos

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, offprints and articles of Dr Milos Sekulich, 1924-1984 (mainly 1941-1984). The material relates mainly to Yugoslavia and Yugoslav, specifically Serbian emigre politics. Some of the major themes of the material are the conflict within the Serbian Orthodox Church in Britain caused by accusations of communist influence, attempts at commemorating and rehabilitating the memory of General Draza Mihailovic, attempts to publicise the Croatian Ustashi atrocities against Serbs and libel cases brought by Sekulich against other members of the Serbian emigre community. There is a small amount of material on his medical interest and research into tuberculosis.

Two part printed diary of events in the Servo[Serbian]-Bulgarian War, 1885, compiled by the Intelligence Branch, Quarter-Master General's Department of the British War Office by Major G C Wynne under the direction of Colonel A S Cameron. These papers are duplicates of those kept at the Public Record Office.

Papers on Hugh Seton-Watson's interests as an academic including papers on Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia and correspondence on the future of SSEES, 1945-1975; papers re Seton-Watson family history, including books and pamphlets by George Seton, HSW's great-grandfather and papers on HSW's father R W Seton-Watson

Correspondence and papers of Robert William Seton-Watson, comprising:
Pre World War One papers, 1905-1914, including articles and correspondence relating to aspects of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, press cuttings and book reviews; correspondence on the formation, publication and content of "The New Europe", with papers and minutes of meetings for "The New Europe Society", 1913-1920; World War One papers, 1914-1918, including correspondence, memoranda, reports and articles, Seton-Watson's reports for the Intelligence Bureau on Austria-Hungary; reports and memos written for the Intelligence Bureau and the Department of Enemy Propaganda; papers on Serbia and the future Yugoslavia, 1912-1919; papers on Bohemia and the other regions that united as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland and the Ukraine; press cuttings re Romania, 1913-1928 (mainly 1914-1918); papers on Seton-Watson's work as Secretary of the Serbian Relief Fund, 1914-1921, including minute books, correspondence, diaries, ledgers, photographs and lantern slides; papers on Yugoslavia, 1919-1941, including correspondence and papers on issues of both Yugoslavia's international relations and internal politics; correspondence and documents on "The Yugoslav Society of Great Britain", press cuttings on Seton-Watson's "Sarajevo" and on Yugoslavia generally and addresses presented to RWSW by Yugloslavian organisations; papers on inter-war Czechoslovakia, 1919-1939; papers on Hungary, Romania, Carpatho-Ruthenes, Ukraine, Poland and Austria in the inter-war years, 1919-1939; papers on World War Two, 1939-1945, including papers and correspondence re RWSW's work for the Foreign and Research Press Service and the Political Intelligence Department, including political intelligence summaries; papers on Seton-Watson's work for the Tribunal for internees opposed to the Nazi system, papers by Seton-Watson and others and others on Balkan and Danubian territories; papers on Czechoslovakia during World War Two, 1939-1945, including papers and intelligence summaries produced by Seton-Watson for Chatham House and the Political Intelligence Department, correspondence and papers on Czechoslovak affairs; papers and correspondence on Hungarian and Romanian affairs in World War Two, 1938-1945; papers and correspondence on Yugoslav affairs in the Second World War, 1939-1947, including both Seton-Watson's Government work and his private involvement with British-Yugoslav organisations; general correspondence files, 1901-1951; correpondence and papers academic matters including the School of Slavonic Studies, Kings College London, and its successor, SSEES, the "Slavonic Review", and the Royal Historical Society, 1911-1949; correspondence with publishers including agreements and statements of royalties and correspondence re publications, letters to newspapers, other correspondence and reviews, 1906-1951; assorted typescripts, articles, lecture notes, notes and newscuttings on a variety of subjects, mainly Austria-Hungary, the "Eastern question" and Yugoslavia, 1905-1951; ephenera; press cuttings, bibliographies and a guide to Seton-Watson's papers held at New College Oxford

Unpublished play entitled "Syn Aleksandra", written by Dmitrii Shliapentokh, probably in the 1980s or early 1990s.

Letters from Mrs Ezsther ("Zsuzsika") Simon, (née Kallay) (1927-) living in Hungary, to her elder sister Magdolna ("Madeleine") Tomalin (née Kallay) (?-1989), living in Britain, also contained are some drafts of replies, telegrams, postcards and Christmas cards.

Typescripts of lectures given by Archibald Riddell Sinclair on Janos Arany and William Shakespeare, and on Robert Burns and Sandor Petöfi. The latter lecture was given on Burns Night, 1962-1963

Dafts of chapters V, VI and conclusion of a PhD thesis by Harold Gordon Skilling presented to SSEES entitled "The German-Czech national conflict in Bohemia, 1879-1893".

Thirty one photographs by the Soiuzphoto agency, showing scenes in Livadia, Tadzhistan and Moscow (including the Metro, the Park of Culture and Rest and factories), as well as farms, libraries and schools.

Typescript by B K Sokolov, entitled "Kamennougol'naia promyshlennost' Rossii v 1914-1917 godskh" [Coal and oil industry of Russia 1914-1917]

Notes by Dr David Soskice, from "Istoriya filosofii v zhizneopisaniyakh, Tom 2" [A biographical history of philosophy] by George Henry Lewes, c 1910.

Two memoranda, written at Belgrade, December 1922 by Sovet Russkikh Chastnykh Zheleznykh [Council for the Russian Private Railways].

Eighty photographs of Soviet origin, c 1955, but without captions, are principally of Moscow, showing the Lenin Library and the Metro. There is some emphasis in the collection on higher education and culture.

Fifty six photographs of a visit to the Soviet Union in the early 1950s by an unnamed presumably British delegation, showing Leningrad, Pushkin, Moscow, Stalingrad and Tashkent, including factories, pioneer camps and a collective farm; 21 offically published photographs depicting the Skorokhod shoe factory in Leningrad in the early 1950s; 3 postcards of Lenin and Stalin, 1950

Bound typewritten journal subtitled 'The trivial record of a journey taken in 1934 by way of Nürnberg, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Cracow and the free city of Danzig with 94 illustrations'.

Stafford's journal gives detailed impressions of his first flight, the places that he and his wife visited in Central Europe, the people they met, as well as occasionally giving his opinions on the political situation. He writes that 'we packed more into twenty-four days than our elders would advise'. The journal includes 94 photographs taken using a 2A folding Brownie camera.

Manuscript by M Stakhovich entitled "Nochnoe. Stsena iz russkago byta" [Night time: scenes from Russian life], undated.

Mnutes and related papers of the SCONUL Slavonic and East European Group (SEEG) and Advisory Committee on Slavonic and East European Materials (ACOSEEM) and also papers relating to specific projects of SEEG and ACOSEEM including surveys of information and library requirements, a working party on transliteration of Cyrillic and work towards a union list of Slavonic and East European serials, 1964-1992.

Correspondence relating to Horace C Stevens' work as a translator of Russian and Polish literature. The subject files include with individuals, publishers (including with Gollancz and about his translation of the work of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov) and the Polish Ministry of Information, 1925-1972.

Biblical manuscript relating story of the Passion and also including apocryphal material regarding the fate of people involved, c 1800.

Spanish-Serbo-Croat-English dictionary believed to have been begun by Dragutin Subotic and completed after his death by his brother Vojislav Subotic; Serbo-Croat-English glossary, c 1952.

Correspondence and papers of Eric Ditmar Tappe, 1946-1979, comprising:
Correspondence and papers of Maria Golescu, 1946-1979, including correspondence with Tappe and other correspondents, publications sent to Golescu by Stefan Nenitescu and notebook containing excerpts from her correspondence. The correspondence is mainly personal in nature but some references to Romanian people and politics particularly the fate of political prisoners
Correspondence between Tappe and Professor Emil Turdeanu, Professor of Romanian Language and Literature at the Sorbonne, Paris, 1948-1972
Correspondence with other Romanian academics and exiles and general correspondence (1948-c1985)
Papers relating to the Romanian language, literature and history
General background notes on Romania
Papers relating to Tappe's publications and public lectures
Papers relating to SSEES and the University of London and Tappe's visits to Romania and international conferences

M.Phil thesis submitted to Nottingham University by Garth M Terry entitled "The origins and development of the Macedonian revolutionary movement with particular reference to the Tayna Makedonsko-Odrinska Revolutsionerna Organizatsiia from its conception in 1893 to the Ilinden Uprising of 1903", 1974.

Album of photographs of Count Leo Tolstoy and his surroundings and 28 photographs of the Tolstoy Museum in Moscow entitled "Tolstovskii muzei, Yanvar, 1912" [Tolstoy museum, January 1912]

Madeleine Tomalin's diaries and press cuttings 1947-1948 and correspondence with her sisters in Hungary, 1959-1987.

Photographs and postcards relating to visits made to Russia by the journalist Henry Foster Toogood in 1923 and 1925. Some photographs have handwritten captions in English probably by Toogood.

Two photographs taken from the Torun archives in July 1937 "Thorunium Primaria Prussia Regal Urbis" depicting the entry of the King of Sweden, 26 November 1655 and "Turonia in Prussia", a plan of military operations, 30 December 1658. Both photographs have notes written on back.

Photocopy of journal kept by Aubyn Bernard Trevor-Battie describing his stay on the Island of Kolguev in the Barents Sea, 1904.

Draft typescript by Peter Unwin entitled "Voice in the wilderness: Imre Nagy and the Hungarian revolution", 1991.

MA thesis presented to the Georg-August University, Göttingen by Jekaterina Vaitsenberg-Schwetje entitled "Das Polenbild in der Deutsch und Russischen presse 1860-1870" [The image of Poland in the German and Russian press 1860-1870]

Thesis entitled "Syntax Ukrajinskych nareci okresu bardejov" by Juraj Vanko, 1977.

Typescript by Jacques M Vergotti, entitled "Memoirs of a Romanian-American 1940-1990", including material on his work as equerry to King Michael of Romania.

Typescript by Jacques Veyrenc, entitled "La forme poétique de Serge Esenin. Les rythmes" [The poetic form of Serge Esenin. The rhythms], 1962.

Videotapes containing mainly excerpts from British news and documentary programmes concerning events in and about the former Yugoslavia. Broadcasts are included from British terrestrial stations such as the BBC as well as satellite and cable broadcasters including CNN, Sky, Replay Productions

Album of photographs entitled "Vidy Moskvy i Eya okrestnostei" [Views of Moscow and its surroundings], containing photographs of Moscow and its environs from before 1917.

PhD thesis submitted to Paris University by André de Vincenz "Les noms de personnes du pays houtzoule" [The names of Estonian people], 1961.

"Byulleten' Vremennago Glavnago Komiteta" [Bulletin of the Temporary Chief Committee], issued by the Vserosiiskii Zemskii Soyuz [All-Russian Land Union] written 1921 at Constantinople.

Text of a lecture on early literary contacts between France and Bohemia by Maurice O'Connell Walshe, c 1955.

Papers of Sir John Oliver Wardop, 1894,1931, comprising:
Notebook entitled "Shamanism" containing translation into English of second part of "Shamastvo" by V M Mikhailovskii in "Izvestiia obshchesvovnaniia, antropologii i etnografii", vol 12, Moscow, 1892), entitled "Shamanism in Siberia and European Russia"; letter (1931) to Wardrop from the Bulgarian Ministry of Education; 2 pictures of the Patriarch Tikhon.

Anonymous typescript, entitled "The western borderlands of the USSR", Jan 1944

Ppers and correspondence of Leonard C Wharton, 1921-1934, relating to examination regulations and prescribed books, particularly for Polish (1921-1922); the University of London Board of Slavonic Studies (1926-1927, 1934); the Academic Board of the SSEES, (1933-1934); Cambridge and Oxford degree regulations (1932-1933); the conference of University Teachers of Russian and other Slavonic Languages (1933-1934).

Letters to Johannes Wilde, 1920-1968, mostly from his brother Dr Ferenc Wilde in Budapest and other family members. The correspondence mostly relates to personal matters but there are also references to the art world and to political events including the Hungarian revolution of 1956. Also contains a diary of events in Budapest during the Second World War written by Wilde's sister Margit Wilde.

Two volumes entitled "Frantisek Palacky: an introduction to his life and work, with special reference to his ideas regarding nationality and government" by Dr J Emlyn Williams, written at Vienna, 1928.

Correspondence relating to Lucien Wolf's editorship of "Darkest Russia" , 1911-1928. The correspondence is concerned with the financing, circulation and influence of the paper as well as to the gathering of articles; correspondence, pamphlets and press cuttings relating to the murder of the imperial family. This correspondence is concerned principally with the issue of the involvement of Jews in the murder and includes letters between Wolf and Reuben Blank and the British Government.

Two pieces of campaign literature from Boris Yeltsin's campaign for the Presidency of the Russian Federation, 1996.

Press cuttings from the British press, arranged in date order, on the war in the former Yugoslavia, 1991-1994. Also a large envelope of printed material and correspondence relating to Yugoslav affairs and the war.

Typescript by N V Zisserman entitled "Rukovodyashchie nachala koloizatsii Sibiri i Priamurskogo kraia", 1937. [Guiding the beginning of colonisation in Siberia in the Priamurskogo region]

Invitation to event held in London organised by Zjednoczenie Polskie and Polska Macierz Szkolna to commemorate the bicentenary of the May 1791 Polish constitution, May 1991