Professor Sidney Pollard

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Economic and social historian Siegfried Pollak, known as Sidney Pollard, was born in Vienna, Austria. He showed a strong talent for mathematics from an early age. He was sent to the UK in Dec 1938, and never saw his parents again. He studied by correspondence course for the London Matriculation examination and then for the external BSc (Econ) degree. He entered the London School of Economics in Jan 1947, graduating with first class honours in 1949. He was appointed to the first Douglas Knoop Research Fellowship at Sheffield University, England, in 1950, and in 1963 was appointed to the first Chair of Economic History at Sheffield.

Pollard, Sidney

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Professor Eric Axelson

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Historian Eric Axelson took his first BA and MA degrees between 1930 and 1934 at Natal University College, South Africa. He gained a doctorate in literature at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, in 1938. He served with the South African forces in North Africa and Italy during the second world war. He was Editor of the Central African Archives between 1949 and 1951 and Chief Narrator of Union War Histories between 1955 and 1962. He became Head of the History Department at Cape Town University, South Africa, and in 1964 published 'African History - books and research.'

Axelson, Eric Victor

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Professor Herbert Nicholas

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American historian Herbert Nicholas studied Classical Greats at New College, Oxford, England. He went to the US in 1935 as a Commonwealth scholar, and gained a particular interest in New Deal America. He was elected to a lectureship in politics at Exeter College, becoming a full Fellow in 1944. He became Reader in the Comparative Study of Institutions in 1956, and in 1969 was the first person to hold the Rhodes Trust Chair in American History and Institutions.

Nicholas, Herbert George

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