Daniel Waley
British historian, archivist and academic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Daniel Philip Waley was a British historian, manuscript specialist, and professor. He was best known for his enduring textbooks on medieval Italy and Europe. Biography Waley began his education in Dorking. He graduated in 1938 from Dauntsey's School near Devizes, where he developed a life-long passion for cricket, and won a scholarship to study history at King's College, Cambridge. In his first year of university , he took the six-month Cours de Civilisation Française at the Sorbonne, where he met his future wife, a student from Kent. After completing his History Prelims at King's in 1940, Waley volunteered for military service and joined the Buffs Regiment. He served with the Eighth Army in Tunisia and in the Sicilian and Italian campaigns, with attachments to the artillery and intelligence corps . He returned in 1945 to King's College for his final year of undergraduate study and took a special subject course with David Knowles on St Francis of Assisi, having been impressed by the city in 1944. He was a contemporary of Eric Hobsbawm as a research student at King's. Waley completed his thesis on the medieval commune of Orvieto in 1950. It won him the Cambridge University Prince Consort Prize and was published unchanged in 1952. He then taught medieval and European history at the London School of Economics, University of London from 1950, initially as Assistant Lecturer in History, then Lecturer , Reader and eventually Professor of History . He used a three-term sabbatical in 1967–8 to write The Italian City Republics , a textbook that has continuously remained in print and been translated into six languages.
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