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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

BELL, Frank (1916-1989)


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

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1992.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
War | International conflicts
War prisoners | War victims | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Bell | Frank | 1916-1989 | linguist

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Kuching | Borneo | South East Asia