Bainton, Roland H. (Roland Herbert), 1894-1984
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1894 - 1984
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Roland Herbert Bainton Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 75
Abstract:
Extensive correspondence, writings, notes, and illustrations document Bainton's roles as lecturer, researcher, artist, world traveler, friend to the oppressed, ardent pacifist, teacher, and mentor. Bainton was born in England and emigrated first to Canada in 1898 and then to the United States in 1902. He taught church history at Yale Divinity School from 1920 to 1962, serving as Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History from 1936. Bainton wrote prolifically and was an authority on...
Dates:
1886–1988
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
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Roland Herbert Bainton Papers
Cecil Herbert Driver papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 782
Abstract:
Correspondence, research materials, clippings, photographs, and reviews of Driver's biography, Tory Radical: The Life of Richard Oastler, published in 1946. Most significant in the papers is a series of eight letters written in 1832 by Oastler to Thomas Daniels, the secretary of the Manchester Short-Time Committee, a letter from Oastler's wife, Mary, and another from Michael Thomas Sadler, the author of the Ten-Hour Bill, to Oastler. Driver's correspondents...
Dates:
1807-1948
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Cecil Herbert Driver papers
Wallace Notestein papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 544
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, printed material, notes, speeches, and other papers of Wallace Notestein, historian, teacher, author, and Sterling Professor of English History at Yale from 1928-1947. The bulk of the papers consist of letters received by Notestein from other historians, scholars, writers, students, and publishers and relate largely to academic and professional matters, to politics, and to his personal life.
Dates:
1899-1969
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Wallace Notestein papers
Theological Discussion Group Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 43
Abstract:
The majority of the approximately 200 papers were written in connection with the Theological Discussion Group. The papers provide insight into the thoughts and Christian perspective of numerous American theologians and discuss various religious issues of the times. Papers arising from other organizations with similar intent are also contained in the collection. The Theological Discussion Group was established in 1934 as a series of two weekend retreat discussions during the academic year...
Dates:
1933-1965