Professor Alexander Monro. Photographer: Hill and Adamson
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Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length seated portrait, full-face, of the Professor of Anatomy Alexander Monro (1773-1859), holding a leather-bound volume in his right hand. [Stevenson (1981), 'Men, Monro (c).']
Professor James Miller. Photographer: Hill and Adamson
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait, looking downwards, his head resting in his right hand, of Professor James Miller (1812-1864), Professor of Surgery at Edinburgh University 1842-64. His left hand grasps the large volume standing on the floor beside him. [Steve...
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length seated portrait of the Rev. Dr. David Welsh (1793-1864), taken from a low angle and with the sitter looking off to the right. Welsh was Professor of Church History at Edinburgh University 1831-1843 and at the Free Church College 1844-45. [Stevenson (1981...
Ext 3323/44 'Sunni Moslem teachers for Saudi Arabia'
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This file contains papers that discuss to find suitable school teachers to work in Saudi Arabia at the request of the Saudi Government. The papers indicate that these efforts were conducted with the help of the British Council, which looked into finding possible candidates in both Sudan and India...
‘19/1 VISIT OF SCHOOL TEACHERS AND PUPILS TO BAHRAIN’
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This file concerns educational visits to Bahrain, including a visit of six Iraqi teachers to Bahrain in 1933 (ff 2-9); a visit of Kuwait teachers and twenty-seven schoolboys and their possible interest in visiting the California-Arabian Standard Oil (CASCO) camp at Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] in February...
The Education subject files contain correspondence related to the development of education in Bahrain and Kuwait. The correspondence in the files discusses the role and activities of the British Council in the region, the recruitment of an educational advisor in Bahrain, the enrolment of Kuwaiti...
File 6/5A Miscellaneous correspondence with the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain
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The file consists of correspondence between the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), the British Consulate in Beirut, and a number of teachers in Palestine seeking employment in the Persian Gulf. The papers are mostly concerned w...
The file contains correspondence relating to education in Bahrain, in particular the recruitment and training of teachers. The correspondence is between the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Registrar of the American University in Beirut (Habib Kurani), the Secretary to the High Commissioner for ...