Allen Leeper's letters home, 1908-1912: an Irish-Australian at Edwardian Oxford

"Allen Leeper, Oxford undergraduate and future Foreign Office mandarin, wrote regularly to his family in Australia from 1908 until he left university in 1912. His letters, in Balliol archives and the State Library of Victoria, record his experiences at Balliol College, among a 'golden gene...

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1. Verfasser: Leeper, A. W. A. 1887-1935 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Hayton, David 1949- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi Cambridge University Press 2024
Schriftenreihe:Camden fifth series, volume 67
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Zusammenfassung:"Allen Leeper, Oxford undergraduate and future Foreign Office mandarin, wrote regularly to his family in Australia from 1908 until he left university in 1912. His letters, in Balliol archives and the State Library of Victoria, record his experiences at Balliol College, among a 'golden generation' decimated by the First World War, and on his extensive travels in Europe. They give a vivid picture of a continent on the eve of war, written by someone whose background afforded a degree of objectivity. Superficially, Oxford was still 'the apotheosis of the amateur', but Leeper's middle-class friends shared a progressive and socially responsible outlook. While he enjoyed college balls and tennis parties, his letters testify to a world shaken by political crisis and social change, and provide glimpses of emerging modernity, bringing out the complexities of a critical period in British and European history."
Beschreibung:"Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Historical Society" -- Impressum
Appendix Members of Oxford University mentioned in the letters: Seite [289]-308
Beschreibung:326 Seiten
ISBN:9781009493635

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