| Description | The collection consists of 35mm photographic slides taken by Professor Carter showing views of geographical features, cities, towns, villages, landscapes, industrial and agricultural locations in Eastern European countries, as well as slides of graphs, maps, archives and other historical data relating to cities and regions of Eastern Europe. Additionally, the collection includes slides of data on subjects such as agriculture, the environment and foreign direct investment (FDI).
The slides have been arranged by country or geographical subject into eleven series: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Germany, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Eastern Europe, collective farming, the environment and FDI. |
| AdminHistory | Professor Francis (Frank) William Carter was Head of the Department of Social Sciences at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College London (UCL) and Honorary Fellow of the UCL Geography Department. After attending Wulfrum College of Education in Wolverhampton, he studied at the universities of Sheffield and Cambridge and the London School of Economics. He lectured at King's College before joining UCL in October 1966, where he researched primarily the historical geography of the Balkans and Eastern Europe, covering themes such as agriculture, migration, city development and the environment.
Sources: Clout, Hugh 'In Memorium Francis William Carter 1938-2001: An Appreciation' in 'Nations, Nationalism and the European Citizen'/ 'Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Development in East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: A Collection of Essays in Memory of Professor Francis 'Frank' Carter' (Ed. Turnock, David 2005) and Turnock, David 'Obituaries: Francis William Carter 1938-2001' in 'The Geographical Journal' Vol. 169, No. 3 (Sep. 2001) pp. 275-276
Publications:
Carter, F. W. 'An historical geography of the Balkans' (London, Academic Press, 1977)
Carter, F. W. 'An industrial geography of Prague: 1848-1921' (Michigan, Ann Arbor University Microfilms International,1984)
Carter, F. W. and Turnock, D. 'Environmental problems in Eastern Europe' (London, Routledge, 1993) |
| CustodialHistory | Transferred to SSEES Library from SSEES |