Metadata: Papers of Geoffrey Green on the Royal Navy and Anglo-Jewry
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 387 A4021
- Title:
- Papers of Geoffrey Green on the Royal Navy and Anglo-Jewry
- Title (official language):
- Papers of Geoffrey Green on the Royal Navy and Anglo-Jewry
- Creator/accumulator:
- Green, Geoffrey
- Date(s):
- 1798/2009
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 2,77 linear metres: 24 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Audio
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Research and working papers of Geoffrey Green relating to his research for his publication The Royal Navy and Anglo-Jewry, 1740-1820: including correspondence, notes, proofs, illustrations, photographs, research material, newspaper articles and journals.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In the 1930s Geoffrey Green was taken with his brother to Chatham Navy Weeks, which stimulated an early fascination with the Navy. As a teenager, he joined the Sea Cadets and he spent his National Service in the Navy from 1947-9 on Battleship HMS Anson. His research into Jews in the Royal Navy started around 1978 and eventually led to the publication of his book The Royal Navy and Anglo-Jewry 1740-1820. It included detailed chapters and appendices on Jewish Navy agents, Jews who served at Trafalgar, the Naval Outfitters and Jewish communities of Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham and Sheerness. Much research was done on Jews who served in both World Wars but unfortunately, the second volume of his book was never completed due to Green’s ill health. From his extensive research, mainly due to the support and guidance of the late Dr Vivian Lipman, talks were given to many clubs and societies.
- Access points: locations:
- Great Britain
- Access points: persons/families:
- Green, Geoffrey
- Subject terms:
- Historical research
- Military
- 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