Collection Level Description: Volumes Relating to the Belgian Refugee Committee
Reference: MSS. Top. Oxon. c. 247-9, d. 221-3, e. 190-4
Title: Volumes Relating to the Belgian Refugee Committee
Dates of Creation: 1914-20
Extent: 11 shelfmarks
Language of Material: English
Administrative/Biographical History
The Belgian Refugee Committee provided for expatriated Belgians at Oxford during the First World War.
Scope and Content
Eleven volumes relating to the work of the Belgian Refugee Committee, including:
- Registers of names and occupations for both men and women
- Papers relating to the registration and repatriation of refugees, including photographs
- Minutes of the committee and sub-committees, 1916-20
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The volumes were given to the Library in 1920.
Access Conditions
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a
valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).
Further Information
Finding Aids
P.S. Spokes, Summary Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library relating to the city county and university of Oxford. Accessions
from 1916 to 1962 (Oxford, 1964).
Access Points
Refugees, Belgian | England | Oxford
Belgian Refugee Committee
Oxford (England)
Enquiries
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09 June 2011