Papers of Alexander Falconer Giles, Lecturer in Classical History at the University of Edinburgh

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-1828
• Dates of Creation:1898-1949
• Name of Creator:
  Giles, Alexander Falconer, 1881-1963 (Lecturer in Classical History, University of Edinburgh)
• Language of Material:Multiple languages
• Physical Description:
  1.30 linear metre 8 boxes
  Lecture notes bound together in good condition albeit somewhat dirty.

• Scope and Content

  This collection consists of approx. 50 notebooks and bound volumes of notes taken by Giles as a student at Balliol College, and as a lecturer in Classical History at the University of Edinburgh. Also includes a typescript entitled 'On Land, Sea and Ice. An Autobiography' by J. Burn Wood, 1947.

  It also includes one photograph album and eight individual photographs acquired later, all related to Alexander F. Giles and his family.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Alexander Falconer Giles graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MA in 1904, and then went to study at Balliol College sometime before 1914. He came back to the University of Edinburgh to teach as a Lecturer in Classical History from the 1920s to the 1940s. He became the Deputy Secretary of the University in 1922.

• Access Information

  Open. Please contact the repository in advance.

• Acquisition Information

  Lecture notes and medal donated in August 2017, accession no SC-Acc-2018-0150.

  Photographs purchased in August 2018, accession no SC-Acc-2019-0049.

• Archivist's Note

  Catalogued by Aline Brodin in March 2018. Photographs catalogued in April 2019.

• Related Material

  Alexander Falconer Giles donated some books to the Library in 1955. Accession no SC-Acc-2017-0205

• Subjects

  Classical Civilisation

  Teaching

  History

  Classical Literature

• Personal Names

  Giles, Alexander Falconer, 1881-1963 (Lecturer in Classical History, University of Edinburgh)

• Genre/Form

  Photographs