Dear colleagues,
I am currently building a database of textbooks used for teaching German
in the UK since about 1850, as well as a database of contacts. I am
hoping that the long memories of at least some of you may be able to
help. Please also feel free to pass this message on to any retired
colleagues who might be able to help, as well as to colleagues in other
departments who you suspect once learnt German in the UK ....
1. I am particularly interested in the names of any textbooks you
yourselves used for learning German when YOU were at school. The more
detail the better (dates, name of school, etc.), but I would be grateful
for any information at all, even vague information (e.g "I think it was
called Unsere Freunde and we used it in the 80s" is still useful!). No
matter how long ago or how recently you were at school, we're
interested.
2. If anyone - or anyone's retired colleagues - have copies of old
German textbooks or grammars lying around at home that they once used in
learning or teaching, but now don't want/ need, may I invite you to
consider donating them to the research project? If anyone has a lot to
donate, please let me know and I will see if I can assist with postage
costs.
Please respond with any information direct to
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With many thanks in advance for any help that you can muster,
Nicola McLelland
Dr Nicola McLelland
Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer,
Department of German
(Room C32, Trent Building)
University of Nottingham,
Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K.
Tel. +44 (0)115 951 5822
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website:http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/german/
Visit the Historiographia Linguistica website:
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=hl
Visit the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas:
http://www.henrysweet.org
Visit the Association for Low Countries Studies:
http://alcs.group.shef.ac.uk/
Visit the Nottingham Institute for Medieval Research:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/medieval/index.php
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