• Introduction
• Biographical Sketch
• Collection Description
• Series
• Box/Folder Listing

Introduction

Range of Collection Dates: 1930s-1996

Size: 12 linear feet (15 archival boxes, 5 photograph boxes, 2 flat boxes, 1 oversize flat box, 1 portfolio)

Provenance: Bequest of the estate of Nancy Crawshaw to the Program in Hellenic Studies for the Princeton University Library.

Photocopying, literary rights, and citation: Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Copyright on photographs has been given to the Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, on the understanding that reproduction will always be credited to Nancy Crawshaw. Copyright on all printed material by Crawshaw, published or unpublished, remains with her estate, and all requests for substantial reproduction should be referred to Peter Barnes, literary executor. Short quotations, under 150 words, are acceptable without referral. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections. Citations should be as follows: Nancy Crawshaw Papers, Box #, Used by permission of the Princeton University Libraries.

Processing: This collection was processed by Nilgun Yankaya in October, 1999, and Margaret Triandafyllis during the spring of 2000. The processing was finished and the finding aid completed by Jannon Stein in August, 2000.

Biographical Sketch

After temporarily working as a wartime civil servant, she began a career in journalism, starting out initially as a photo-journalist in 1946. Continuing in this specialty during the next three years, she worked in the Balkans and the Middle East. She accompanied the United Nations investigation team in Communist-held Northern Greece, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria as an independent photo-journalist, and was commissioned by G.B. Instructional Films Ltd. to make six film strips on "The Geography of the Desert," traveling to Iraq, Kurdistan, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.

In the next phase of her career she focused chiefly on print journalism, although she continued to take photographs which occasionally accompanied her articles. She became an accredited special correspondent for the Manchester Guardian in Greece (1949-1959) and Cyprus (1955-1959). From this point on, she regularly took extended trips to both Greece and Cyprus and was seen as a British expert on the international political issues regarding Cyprus. She wrote numerous articles for foreign policy periodicals, gave lectures and papers at academic conferences, and contributed sections to books on Cyprus and the Encyclopedia Americana. This standing as an expert was greatly bolstered in 1978 with the publication of her book The Cyprus Revolt, which focused on the period between World War II and the international agreement that created the independent Republic of Cyprus, and the struggle of the Greek-Cypriot population for union with Greece.

She served as one of two British consultants to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in connection with a major research project that resulted in the book Le Conflit de Chypre by Professor Francois Crouzet (2 vols., Bruylant, Brussels, 1973). During the 1950s, she was twice employed by the British Foreign Office, once in 1953 to research the Arab States and their oil industries, and once in 1958 to aid their publicity efforts by giving lectures in connection with the Cyprus Crisis and the Cyprus debate in the UN. In addition, she served as a specialist adviser on the Cyprus Problem to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee from 1980 to1983.

She married J. T. Crawshaw (a Lloyd's underwriter) in 1939, and was a member of the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and a licentiate of the British Institute of Professional Photographers. Nancy Crawshaw died in 1997.

Collection Description

The collection consists of the correspondence, photographs, and writings of Nancy Crawshaw, as well as copies of her published work. Her correspondence is both personal and professional, including also tributes, commissions, and letters of recommendation. Her photographs are presented in albums with explanatory notes, as negatives with thumbnails, and as mounted and unmounted prints. They include photographs of Greece, Cyprus, Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Middle East. The photographs on Greece focus on different topics including classical antiquities, agriculture, the Greek Civil War, shipbuilding, fishing, and architecture. There are also photographs from her accompaniment of UN expeditions in the Balkans. Her photographs on the Middle East include photographs of Turkey and photographs taken on assignment for G.B. Instructional Films on Syria and Lebanon and for the British Foreign Office on Iraq's oil industry. Crawshaw's writings include work on her book The Cyprus Revolt (1978), work for Professor Francois Crouzet's book Le Conflit de Chypre (for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), her notes on Rauf Denktash's The Cyprus Triangle, lectures, broadcasts, and articles from her journalistic career, and her notes, journalistic and otherwise. The Cyprus Revolt focuses on the efforts of the Greek-Cypriot population to unite with Greece from 1955 to 1959. Denktash has been the main leader of the Turkish-Cypriot community since the 1950s and the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus since it declared its independence. The copies of Crawshaw's published work include two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, pamphlets and magazines containing her articles and photographs, and loose cuttings and tearsheets of her articles and photographs. Princeton's Rare Books Division also has her collection of ephemera related to Greece and Cyprus.

Arrangement

The collection is organized in the following series: I. Correspondence, II. Photographs, III. Writings, IV. Printed Matter-Copies of Crawshaw's Writings, and V. Memorabilia.

Added Entries

The following added entries have been assigned to this collection to highlight significant sources (other than the main entry), subjects, and forms of the collection's materials. Where possible Library of Congress Subject Headings have been used, and the forms of names reflect international cataloging standards. As a result, all of these entries may be searched in the Department's database (MASC), in the Library's online catalog, and the public card catalog to find other related material.

    Subject Headings (in uppercase) / Form Headings (in upper and lower case):

    Agriculture-Cyprus-20th century-Photographs
    Agriculture-Greece-20th century-Photographs
    Albania-20th century-Photographs
    Architecture, Byzantine-Photographs
    Architecture-Greece-Photographs
    Architecture, Turkish-Photographs
    Balkan Peninsula-20th century-Photographs
    Bulgaria-20th century-Photographs
    CYPRUS-FOREIGN RELATIONS-20TH CENTURY
    CYPRUS-HISTORY-BRITISH RULE, 1878-1960
    CYPRUS-HISTORY-WAR FOR UNION WITH GREECE, 1955-1959
    CYPRUS-HISTORY-CYPRUS CRISIS, 1963
    CYPRUS-HISTORY-CYPRUS CRISIS, 1974-
    CYPRUS-POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT-20TH CENTURY
    CYPRUS, NORTHERN
    Cyprus-Social life and customs-20th century-Photographs
    Cyprus-20th century-Photographs
    GREAT BRITAIN-FOREIGN RELATIONS-CYPRUS-20TH CENTURY
    GREAT BRITAIN-FOREIGN RELATIONS-GREECE-20TH CENTURY
    GREAT BRITAIN-FOREIGN RELATIONS-TURKEY-20TH CENTURY
    Greece-Antiquities-Photographs
    GREECE-FOREIGN RELATIONS-20TH CENTURY
    GREECE-HISTORY-20TH CENTURY
    GREECE-HISTORY-CIVIL WAR, 1944-1949
    Greece-History-Civil War, 1944-1949-Photographs
    GREECE-POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT-20TH CENTURY
    Greece-Social life and customs-20th century-Photographs
    Greece-20th century-Photographs
    Iraq-20th century-Photographs
    Journalists-England-20th century-Correspondence
    Journalists-England-20th century-Photographs
    Lebanon-20th century-Photographs
    Middle East-20th century-Photographs
    Oil industry-Iraq-Photographs
    REFUGEES-20TH CENTURY
    Refugees-20th century-Photographs
    Syria-20th century-Photographs
    TURKEY-FOREIGN RELATIONS-20TH CENTURY
    Turkey-20th century-Photographs
    UNITED NATIONS
    United Nations-Photographs
    Yugoslavia-20th century-Photographs

Related Publications

The manuscripts found in draft form in this collection came to print in the following publications: The Cyprus Revolt : an Account of the Struggle for Union with Greece, by Nancy Crawshaw (London : Boston : G. Allen & Unwin, 1978); Le Conflit de Chypre, 1946-1959, by Francois Crouzet (Bruxelles, É. Bruylant, 1973); and The Cyprus Triangle, by Rauf R. Denktash (London ; Boston : Allen & Unwin ; Nicosia, Northern Cyprus : K. Rustem & Bro., 1982).

Series

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