| Call Number |
OH925 |
| Physical description |
1 online resource (2 audio files (55 min., 52 sec.)) : digital, WAV + 1 transcript (typescript, 13 leaves) |
| Series |
University of Western Australia Archives oral history project |
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University of Western Australia Archives oral history project
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| Notes |
Title devised by cataloguer. |
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This sound recording has been preserved and made available by the University of Western Australia. |
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Digital preservation in WAV format. |
| Access advisory |
Access open. |
| Additional formats |
Audio cassette tape available at the University of Western Australia Archives. |
| Original version |
Original version: 1 audio cassette University of Western Australia Archives OH24. |
| Notes |
OHrecon. |
| Access advisory |
Access open. |
| Rights advisory |
Copyright or other restrictions may apply. For public use, contact the State Library of Western Australia. |
| Biography/history |
Prof. Bailey was born in Devizes in Wiltshire, England on 16 December 1899 and migrated to Nangeenan (now Merredin), Western Australia at the age of ten in 1910 with his parents and two brothers. He entered the University of Western Australia to study Classics with English and Logic and Ancient Philosophy in 1922. Being the only student of the Prof. of Classics, George Woods, he learnt linguistics from him and after completing his Masters degree in 1926, he won a scholarship to Oxford where he studied Sanskrit, Avestan, and Indo-European comparative philology. He soon became interested in the history and development of the Iranian branch of Indo-European, Georgian and Persian. He was appointed as Parsee Community Lecturer in London School of Oriental Studies in 1929 after graduating with first class honours. In 1936, Bailey became Professor of Sanskrit and a Fellow at Queen's College, Cambridge. He has been credited with a knowledge of more than fifty languages, the prime monument to his scholarship will be his work on Middle Persian (Pahlavi) scripts and Khotanese. |
| Summary |
Memories of University of W.A. and later career in England in Oriental studies. |
| Subjects |
Bailey, H. W. (Harold Walter), 1899-1996 -- Interviews.
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Philology -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.
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Khotanese philology -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.
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Pahlavi philology -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.
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College teachers -- Great Britain -- Interviews.
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| Related names |
Shervington, Christine, interviewer.
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