GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP7 - NEWTON, Professor Arthur Percival (1873-1942)

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GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP7 Created [1914-1938] Collection (fonds) 2 boxes or 0.02m3 Newton , Arthur Percival , 1873-1942 , Professor of History
Born 1873; educated King Edward's School, Birmingham, and King's College, London; Assistant Lecturer in Physics, King's College London; Lecturer in Imperial and Colonial History, King's College London, 1914-1918; Rhodes Lecturer, University and King's College, London, 1914-1918; Secretary of Imperial Studies Committee, University of London, 1914-1918; Organiser of Imperial Studies Committee, Royal Empire Society, 1914; visited universities of the US and the British Dominions under the auspices of the Universities Bureau of Empire and the Institute of International Education, 1919-1920; Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King's College London, 1920-1938; member of the Governing Committee of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 1921; Vice-President of the Historical Association, since 1924; Vice-President, Royal Historical Society; Visiting Professor in the University of the Punjab and Reader in the University of Calcutta, India, 1928-1929; retired 1938; died 1942.

Publications: The principals of training for historical investigation (Calcutta, 1929); The establishment of responsible government in Cape Colony, 1870-1872; A short history of British colonial policy revised by Newton (Methuen and Co, London, 1932); editor of Vols 41-43 of Calendar of state papers, colonial series (London, 1860-); The English-American (Routledge and Sons, London, 1928); introduction to Letters from early New Zealand (Private, Plymouth, 1936); editor of Imperial studies (London, 1927-); editor of The Empire and the future. A series of Imperial Studies lectures delivered in the University of London, King's College (Macmillan and Co, London, 1916); A hundred years of the British Empire (Duckworth, London, 1940); A junior history of the British Commonwealth and Empire (Blackie and Son, London and Glasgow, 1933); An introduction to the study of colonial history (1919); editor of Federal and unified constitutions. A collection of constitutional documents for the use of students (London, 1923); Newfoundland to 1783 (1930); editor of Select documents relating to the unification of South Africa (Frank Cass and Co, London, 1968); The beginnings of English colonisation, 1569-1618; The British Empire to 1783 (Methuen and Co, London, 1935); The colonising activities of the English puritans (1914); The European nations in the West Indies, 1493-1688 (A and C Black, London, 1933); editor of The great age of discovery (University of London Press, London, 1932); editor of The Imperial Studies series (J.M. Dent and Sons, London and Toronto, 1917-1919); The old Empire and the new (1917); editor of The sea commonwealth and other papers (1919); editor of The staple trades of the Empire (1918); The universities and educational systems of the British Empire (W Collins Sons and Co, London, [1924]); editor of Travel and travellers of the Middle Ages (Kegan Paul and Co, London, 1926); United States and colonial developments, 1815-1846: Anglo-American relations during the Civil War (1923); The British Empire since 1783 (Methuen and Co, London, 1929); editor of Empire builders (1920); editor of The Cambridge history of the British Empire (University Press, Cambridge, 1929-1959); Calendar of the manuscripts of Major-General Lord Sackville...preserved at Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent (London, 1940-).

Draft and notes for a history of English public finance were presented to the College by Professor David Beers Quinn, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Liverpool, in 1980. The remainder of the collection was transferred from the Department of History, King's College London, by Professor Peter James Marshall, Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, in 1984.

Draft and notes, [1914-1938], for a history of English public finance from the later medieval period to the Stuarts, mostly abstracted from sources at the Public Record Office, London. Notes, [1914-1938], on various topics, notably economic aspects of New Zealand, 1836-1845, Senegal and Gambia, 1737-1804, trade on the Gold Coast, Africa, 1750-1800, and the functions of the Board of Trade, 1744-1807.

The papers are arranged in sections as outlined above.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research purposes only. Requests to publish original information should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
English

Handlist available in hard copy in the College Archive reading room.

King's College London Archives holds the papers of Professor Peter James Marshall, which contain an obituary of Newton (Ref: K/PP8).

Feb 2000 Africa African history Department of Trade x Board of Trade Economic history Economics English history European history Finance Gambia Ghana Historical periods History International trade Medieval history National history Newton , Arthur Percival , 1873-1942 , historian New Zealand Oceania Public finance Public Record Office Senegal Trade Trade (practice) West Africa

Draft and notes for a history of English public finance were presented to the College by Professor David Beers Quinn, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Liverpool, in 1980. The remainder of the collection was transferred from the Department of History, King's College London, by Professor Peter James Marshall, Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, in 1984.

Draft and notes, [1914-1938], for a history of English public finance from the later medieval period to the Stuarts, mostly abstracted from sources at the Public Record Office, London. Notes, [1914-1938], on various topics, notably economic aspects of New Zealand, 1836-1845, Senegal and Gambia, 1737-1804, trade on the Gold Coast, Africa, 1750-1800, and the functions of the Board of Trade, 1744-1807.

The papers are arranged in sections as outlined above.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research purposes only. Requests to publish original information should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

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King's College London Archives holds the papers of Professor Peter James Marshall, which contain an obituary of Newton (Ref: K/PP8).

Handlist available in hard copy in the College Archive reading room.

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