IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Bell
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: BELL, Frank (1916-1989)
Date(s): Created 1945-1946
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Bell | Frank | 1916-1989 | linguist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1916; educated at Haileybury College and Peterhouse, Cambridge; joined the army, 1940; POW in Japanese hands, 1942-1945; Assistant Secretary of the University of Cambridge Board of Extra-Mural Studies, 1946-1948; Chairman of the Educational Interchange Council, 1951-1979; founded first Bell School of Languages for the teaching of English to foreign students, 1955; died in 1989.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Undercover University, an illustrated account of the language lessons he organised and ran as a POW at Kuching, Borneo during the period 1943-1945, written in 1945-1946, privately published in 1990.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
single item
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original information should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1992.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997