Metadata: Papers of J. M. Shaftesley
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Holding institution (official language):
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Postal address:
- Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
- Phone number:
- 02380 592721
- Web address:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives
- Email:
- archives@soton.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS 230 AJ443
- Title:
- Papers of J. M. Shaftesley
- Title (official language):
- Papers of J. M. Shaftesley
- Creator/accumulator:
- Shaftesley, John Maurice
- Date(s):
- 1950/1979
- Extent:
- 0.23 linear metres: 2 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Working papers, 1950-78, mainly relating to the history of Jews in freemasonry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; biographical notes on Jews transported to Australia in the nineteenth century.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- John Maurice Shaftesley (1901-81) was educated at Salford Grammar School, Manchester School of Art and London University. Between 1924 and 1926 he worked on the technical staff of Allied Newspapers, on the Manchester Guardian, 1926-36, and was lecturer in the Department of Printing Technology, Manchester College of Technology, 1933-6. He was assistant editor of the Jewish Chronicle, 1937-46, and editor, 1946-58. Shaftesley was a member of the council of the Friends of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, chairman of the Zangwill Centenary Committee, 1964, and of the Israel Zangwill Fellowship. He was also honorary secretary, 1967-8, and chairman, 1973-6, of the Society of Indexers. Shaftesley was a departmental editor and contributor to the Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1966-72. He was awarded an OBE in 1956.
- Access points: locations:
- Australia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Shaftesley, J M
- Subject terms:
- Freemasons
- Historical research
- Prisoners
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the archive requires a prior written appointment. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/about/access.page
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/cataloguedatabases/webguide1.page
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Southampton Special Collections