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AL Smith Collection - Bibliography & Acknowledgements

• A.L. Smith by His Wife (publ. by John Murray, 1928)
• Balliol College: A History 1263-1939 (John Jones, Oxford University Press, 1988)
• Albert Mansbridge and English Adult Education (Bernard Jennings, Dept. of Adult Education, Hull University, 1976)
• Knowledge Is Power: A Short History of the WEA 1903-1978 (Bernard Jennings, Hull University)
• "Nation, Duty, Character and Confidence: History at Oxford, 1850-1914." (Reba Soffer, in The Historical Journal Vol. XXX, 1987)
• "Professor Soffer's `History at Oxford'" (Peter Slee, as above)
• "The Development of Disciplines in the Modern English University" (Reba Soffer, in The Historical Journal Vol. XXXI, 1988)
• The Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press)
• The Balliol College Register 1833-1933 (ed. Sir Ivo Elliott, Oxford University Press 1934)

In the preparation of this catalogue I am indebted to Prof. R.L. Patterson of Castleton, Vermont, for his help and suggestions, and his sorting of much of the Political Thought lecture material, and to Ms. Dinah Drake of the Thames and Solent WEA for allowing me access to the WEA Library at their Oxford offices.

• Introduction to the collection
• Biographical summary
• AL Smith and the teaching of history in Oxford
• Bibliography & Acknowledgements
• Provenance
• Arrangement
• Catalogue

- Tim Procter, Modern Manuscripts Assistant, 1993