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PPC/CNLB/02/01
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- 1942 (Creation)
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2 volumes manuscript
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Biographical history
(1927- ) CBE, FBA, FSA. Medieval Historian. Admitted Caius, 1945; scholar, 1945-48; student, 1948-49; Fellow, 1949-56; Professorial Fellow, 1977-94; Life Fellow, 1994- .Editor of Caian, 1947-48, 1955-56, 1986- .Praelector, 1955-6. Professor of Medieval History, Liverpool University, 1956-67; Professor of History, Westfield College, London University, 1967-77; Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Cambridge University, 1977-94. College Historian.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
97.064 - Donated to the Archive by C.N.L. Brooke, 1997.
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Open access - no restrictions.
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Notes transcribed by Diana Greenaway.
Related units of description
Material on Welsh dioceses extracted and handed over to Diana Greenaway for work on the Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae.
See also notebooks of David Knowles.
See also archive of Institute of Historical Research, who took over the work of collecting notes on Church dignitaries in the 1950s.
Publication note
Research on medieval abbots and priors published in D. Knowles et al. (ed.), The Heads of Religious Houses, England and Wales, I (Cambridge, 1972; 2001); notes on medieval archdeacons and cathedral dignitaries used by D. Greenaway (ed.) John Le Neve, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae; and British Academy, English Episcopal Acta.