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| Keywords: lse london school of economics londonschoolofeconomics lse library lselibrary cls blackandwhite monochrome black and white Librarian at LSE 1951-53 and 1966-1982 Extract from: ‘Retirements: Walter Hughes,’ by John Griffith in LSE Magazine, November, 1982, No42, pp.16-17 ‘Walter Hughes, born 1919, is a typical LSE man of a very special vintage. Born of a Jewish barrister and a Gentile mother in Vienna, still there after the Anschluss, a refugee to the United Kingdom in 1939, four months internment as enemy alien in 1940, British Army, Parachute Regiment, invasion of Normandy, prisoner of war in Germany 1944-45, naturalized 1947…Walter graduated in modern and medieval languages from Cambridge in 1949, served LSE as a librarian 1951-53, 1966-82, and was a translator and technical information officer in between, his particular countries of interest being France and Scandinavia…He has contributed much to the BLPES and also directly to the life of the school. He has the most alarming habit – so disconcerting to the English – of saying, as clearly and succinctly as he can, precisely what he thinks...Now, in his retirement, Walter starts again, returning to the School to study for MSc in European Studies and to the library as consumer…’ IMAGELIBRARY/1084 Persistent URL: archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&a... Librarian at LSE 1951-53 and 1966-1982 Extract from: ‘Retirements: Walter Hughes,’ by John Griffith in LSE Magazine, November, 1982, No42, pp.16-17 ‘Walter Hughes, born 1919, is a typical LSE man of a very special vintage. Born of a Jewish barrister and a Gentile mother in Vienna, still there after the Anschluss, a refugee to the United Kingdom in 1939, four months internment as enemy alien in 1940, British Army, Parachute Regiment, invasion of Normandy, prisoner of war in Germany 1944-45, naturalized 1947…Walter graduated in modern and medieval languages from Cambridge in 1949, served LSE as a librarian 1951-53, 1966-82, and was a translator and technical information officer in between, his particular countries of interest being France and Scandinavia…He has contributed much to the BLPES and also directly to the life of the school. He has the most alarming habit – so disconcerting to the English – of saying, as clearly and succinctly as he can, precisely what he thinks...Now, in his retirement, Walter starts again, returning to the School to study for MSc in European Studies and to the library as consumer…’ IMAGELIBRARY/1084 Persistent URL: archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&a... | ||||
