Fonds GB 0210 WOOLLEY - Geoffrey Woolley Papers

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Reference code

GB 0210 WOOLLEY

Title

Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Date(s)

  • [c. 1750]-2010 (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

0.144 cubic metres (16 small boxes).

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Geoffrey Downing Woolley (born 29 June 1915), was the son of William Downing Woolley of Rhyd Hall, Tredegar, Monmouthshire, colliery manager, and Gladys Parry his wife. Woolley was educated at Brean House, Clifton College and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he read English and law. He worked on the Monmouthshire Beacon newspaper in 1938, and the Western Mail, before joining the Times of London in May 1939. A member of the London Welsh Territorials, he transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1939, serving first with 303 Battery, 99th (London Welsh) H.A.A. Regiment, 1939-1940, transferring to 118 Battery, 75th Anti-Tank Regiment, and serving with them through France, Belgium and Netherlands into Germany, ending the war in Schleswig-Holstein. In May 1945 he transferred to a staff job as PA to the Administrative & Quartering Brigadier in the Schleswig-Holstein District, based in Plön Castle, and was demobilised in 1946. Returning to the Times newspaper, he was their Washington DC correspondent, 1948-1952, and was in Germany in 1953; he edited the Times's letters page, 1953-1983. Woolley and his partner Ian Mylles entered into a civil union in 2007. He died 17 February 2010.

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Mr Ian Mylles, Geoffrey Woolley's civil partner, per Mr John Byrne; Alfriston; Purchase; October 2015; 99632236202419.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Papers of the journalist Geoffrey Woolley, including a group of letters, 1906-1915, from the poet Edward Thomas to W. H. Hudson.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Arranged into five series: correspondence (L), diaries (D), writings (W), other personal papers (P), and collected material (C).

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Conditions governing access

Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.

Conditions governing reproduction

Usual copyright laws apply.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English.

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A number of school, college athletics, war-time and portrait photographs and other pictures have been transferred to the NLW photographic collection and are now Photograph Book 6088. Papers relating to Woolley's career at the Times newspaper are held by the Times archive.

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Note

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Alma system control number

99632236202419

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Rules and/or conventions used

Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH

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Dates of creation revision deletion

July 2017.

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Sources

The following source was used in the compilation of this description: NLW, Geoffrey Woolley Papers.

Archivist's note

Description compiled by Stephen Benham.

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