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Professor R H Tawney: proposed 1947 tour to Austria. Professor A J P Taylor: 1946...
Catalogue reference: BW 83/7
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BW 83/7
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Date (When the record was created)
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1943-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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Professor R H Tawney: proposed 1947 tour to Austria.
Professor A J P Taylor: 1946 tour to Czechoslovakia, lecturing on Slavic and eastern European history.
Sir Henry Tidy: proposed 1947 tour to Lebanon and Syria.
Dr Margaret Tod: 1948 tour to Argentina and Uruguay, lecturing on cancer treatment by radiotherapy.
Professor A R Todd: 1945 tour to Switzerland, lecturing on organic chemistry.
Dr George W Tyrell: 1947 tour to Denmark, lecturing on geology.
Dr K Urwin: 1947 tour to France, lecturing on Virginia Woolf.
H Frank Wallace: 1944 visit to Spain, lecturing on game preservation.
H D Walston: 1947 visit to France and 1948 visit to Bulgaria, Hungary and Yugoslavia, lecturing on British agriculture.
Sir Robert Watson-Watt: 1946 visit to France, lecturing on radar.
Sir Charles Webster and others: attendance at International Congress of Historical Sciences in Paris, September 1946.
Duke of Wellington: 1948 tour to France, lecturing on the history of the English in Paris.
Dr A Q Wells: 1945 tour to Norway and Sweden for discussions with experts in the field of animal pathology and immunisation against tuberculosis.
Major Eric Whelpton: 1946 tour to French North Africa; 1948 tour to France, lecturing on family life in England and English taste, and French literary associations in England.
Professor J H C Whitehead: 1948 tour to Poland, lecturing on mathematics.
Air Commodore Frank Whittle: 1946 tour to Belgium and the Netherlands, lecturing on the development of the jet engine.
Professor F C Wilkinson: 1948 tour to Hungary, lecturing on dentistry.
Lady Gertrude Williams: 1948 tour to Denmark, lecturing on British social services.
Lt-Col. R B Williams-Thompson: 1940 tour to Scandinavia and the Baltic States; 1945 tour to the Netherlands, lecturing on post-war reconstruction; proposed 1947 tour to Iraq and Iran.
Dr Gertrude Willoughby: 1948 tour to France, lecturing on British social services.
Dr E Alec Woolf: 1948 tour to France, lecturing on English education and local government.
Nora Wooster: 1945 tour to Czechoslovakia, lecturing on the use of x-rays in metal industries.
Grey Wornum: 1947 tour to Czechoslovakia, lecturing on town planning and architecture.
Basil Wright: 1946 tour to Egypt, Greece and Palestine; 1948 tour to Switzerland, lecturing on the British film industry.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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See also BW 2/333 (Sir Stanley Unwin)
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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GEN/361/6000 (60480)
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Not Public Record(s)
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Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
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BW 83
British Council: Registered Files, Tours by Specialists (London Sponsored Tours)
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