SEW/8 - Inter war years, general (1919-1939)
Previous number: boxes 14 and 15 and volumes N11, N12 and N13
During the inter war period RWSW assumed more academic committments, particularly at Kings College where he became the first holder of the Masaryk Chair of Central European History at the School of Slavonic Studies in 1922. Also in 1922, together with the School's director, Sir Bernard Pares, he founded the "Slavonic Review". RWSW remained in touch with many of his wartime friends, some of whom such as T G Masaryk and Edward Beneš in Czechoslovakia and Iuliu Maniu in Romania became leaders and influential political figures of their respective countries. Czechoslovakia and particularly the relationship between the Czechs and Slovaks became a central interest to RWSW during the 1920s. He travelled in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania and Austria and visited the United States for the only time in 1924.
In 1929 RWSW had a major illness and in 1931 he suffered serious financial losses which curtailed his travels for some years. His efforts were therefore concentrated on his academic career. The School of Slavonic Studies had grown and became independent of Kings College in 1932. Some of RWSW's concerns in the 1930s were the development of dictatorship in Yugoslavia and as the decade progressed, the threat of dicatorship elsewhere.
Contents: correspondence including re the League of Nations, issue of origins of First World War and RWSW's 1924-1925 American tour; lecture notes for American tour; articles on general Central and South East European topics; press cuttings re RWSW's interwar activities and reviews of his publications
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