| Description | LLOYD/32 - 37 are the basic note-books used by him, bearing marks of long thumbing and turning-over, with the result that all require re-binding.
In examining “these rich well-packed pages, especially the entries on the left hand, there is overwhelming evidence of how young in mind he was, how he kept abreast with every new acquisition of knowledge in his chosen field, and watched closely for conclusions of more recent historians like Collingwood, Powicke, and Stenton. One example must suffice: in LLOYD/32 on p. 143 (left) he gives the considered judgements of competent writers on the inner meaning of Caesar's expeditions to Britain, not that of Mommsen only, but Oman as well, and John Buchan, and opinions as late as those of Collingwood in his volume of Oxford Histories and of Baillie Reynolds in Antiquity. |
| AdminHistory | 'A History of Wales from the Earliest Times up to the Edwardian Conquest' was Sir John's great contribution to historical study, and established his reputation as the prime historian of Wales. It was the product of a severe, sustained, scholarly research of more than twenty years. |