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Salzman, Louis Francis

Salzman, Louis Francis (1878–1971) [Bi].
British historian and editor of the VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY of England. Born in Brighton, Salzman was educated at Haileybury and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied medicine. Endowed with a small income at an early age he settled in Hailsham and abandoned medicine for historical research. During WWI he taught in a school and after the war moved to Cambridge and undertook coaching and supervision for the history tripos. In 1935 he succeeded Dr William Page as the editor of the Victoria County History of England. He retained this post until his retirement in 1949, steering what had already become a great endeavour through some difficult times and with slender funds. Under his management the 100th volume was issued in 1938. He published numerous other books, including English industries in the Middle Ages (1913, London: Constable) and the pioneering Building in...

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