IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0369 FOW
Held at: School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Title: Fowlds Collection
Date(s): 1924-1932
Level of description: Collection (Fonds)
Extent: 1 envelope
Name of creator(s): Fowlds | Hilda | 1891-1932 | teacher
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Hilda Fowlds (1891-1931) became a teacher after graduating from London University. She was appointed headmistress of William Gibbs' School Faversham, Kent in 1921. She made several visits to Eastern Europe particularly Hungary where she made a number of friends. It was while visiting Hungary in September 1931 that she became one of some thirty people killed in the Biastorbagy railway disaster when the Budapest-Paris Express was derailed by a bomb.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Letters by Hilda Fowlds while travelling in Eastern Europe, 1924-1927, mainly from Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia; papers and photographs relating to her death in the Biastorbagy railway disaster and letters from a visit to Hungary by her elder sister and brother in law Alice and Frank Dixon, in 1932.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Mainly English, some French and Hungarian
System of arrangement:
Three files - letters written from Eastern Europe, 1924-1927, papers and photographs on the death of Hilda Fowles, 1932; Letters and postcards from Alice and Frank Dixon sent from a holiday in Hungary, 1932
Conditions governing access:
Unrestricted access. Researchers wishing to consult the archives or seeking further information should contact UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) Library, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Librarian.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Online catalogue available on the UCL Archives website.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Not known
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/libraries-and-study-spaces/ucl-school-slavonic-and-east-european-studies-library
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Revised by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Date(s) of descriptions: Revised Apr 2002