Ernest J. and Eleanor Skilling
- UTA 1778-B2001-0017-3-11-2-Family album B
- File
- [197-]-1981
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Ernest J. and Eleanor Skilling
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
WilliamWatt and Alice Skilling, various photoprints
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Tray of slides, labelled "1967 - Gdynia; 1968, Oct. - Bratislava"
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Tray of slides labelled "Praha, 1969, 1975; Slovakia 1975"
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Tray of slides, labelled "Prague, October 1968"
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Tray of slides, labelled "Praha, June, Oct. 1968"
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Photographs: Skilling - Professional life
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Photographs: Skilling - Early school
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Photographs: Skilling - Personal life and family
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Photographs: Skilling - Portraits
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
The material consists of the personal records of Professor Skilling and focuses primarily of Skilling’s academic work, and includes research notes and drafts of his doctoral thesis, The German-Czech National Conflict in Bohemia, 1779-1873, as well as notes and drafts supporting the revision of this thesis, which Skilling worked on for several years. There is also some correspondence with other scholars in the field of Eastern European studies, as well as publishers and editors.
The accession also contains some of Professor Skilling’s personal belongings and awards, such as medals, honorary degrees, and photographs and slides of his personal and professional life.
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Records documenting the history of the family of Harold Gordon Skilling, including his father, William Watt Skilling; his uncle, Ernest John Skilling; his brothers, William John, Andrew Douglas and Edward Donald; and his wife, Sara (Sally) Bright Skilling.
Sous-fonds I: Skilling family. The emphasis is on William Watt, a shoemaker who emigrated from England to Canada in 1907; on Ernest, who was a very active member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; on Donald, who was killed in action during World War I, and on his brother, William, who was wounded but survived.
Sous-fonds II: Sara (Sally) Bright Skilling. The records focus on Sally’s education in the United States, her travels with Gordon in Eastern Europe in the 1960s, and on her love of entertaining. They document the crucial support, intellectual and otherwise, that she provided to Gordon as he pursued his career.
Sous-fonds III: Harold Gordon Skilling. The documentation here is primarily on Gordon’s education and early career and his later years as an expert on Russian and East European politics and on Czechoslovakia, in particular. An extensive combination of correspondence, journals, lectures, writings and photographs reveal much about Skilling’s ideas and his relationships with the principal figures in recent Czech history.
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Records documenting Skilling's expertise relating to East European studies with particular emphasis on Czechoslovakia and his role in the the Centre for Russian and East European Studies. Contains addresses and speeches; manuscripts and publications including related correspondence and reviews (books included are "Czechoslovakia's Interruped Revolution", "Charter 77 and Human Rights in Czechoslovakia", and "The Czech Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century"); lecture notes; subject files, mainly of associations; sound recording, video and photographs; University of Toronto administrative files including the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, the Department of Polical Economy, Committee on International Studies as well as the Centre for International Studies.
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Lecture notes on international politics and international organization, University of Wisconsin and Dartmouth College (1941-1959); files for courses on Soviet politics at Dartmouth College and the University of Toronto; lecture notes for courses on Eastern Europe and comparative communism at the University of Toronto; lecture notes by Hazard at Columbia University (1949-1950)
Visit of the Ichigawa's, Taichee, Tomoko, Fumiko, Yuko April 1983
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Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
CREES 20th anniversary; G. Skilling - Festschrift, October 27, 1983
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
With the Precans in Hanover, West Germany, August, 1983
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Reception at Canadian Embassy - March 1990, 1990 in honour of Charter 77 and the Skillings
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Toronto 1983; Skilling in study, Susan Solomon
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Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
1979 Warsaw (a weekend after the USSR)
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Europe - III (1950): Poland, Denmark, Italy
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Czechoslovakia 1937, 1939, 1948
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Sally and Gordon Skilling, Monmouthshire, 1936 - Art treasures [includes London]
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Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Victoria 1998-1999 ; Toronto 1999; Ottawa, Havel's visit - includes Seminar (Charter 77?)
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Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
1979 Munich : visiting the Kalinas, Edemiessen, Peine, Celle, with the Precans
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Slovenia: Conference at Porto Roz, [visit to] Ljubljana, Sept. 1998
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Prague - June 1998: includes images of election posters
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Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Paris - Le Printemps de Prague [conference]
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Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Praha - Oct. 1995: book signing Brno - T.G.M., Prerov Nad Labem
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Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
[Conferences on T. G. Masaryk]: Liblice images of reception by Vaclav Havel
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Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
1978 Vienna 1979 Vienna : visits to Heurigen with Leopold (Poldi) and Paula Grünwald
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Colleagues, conferences and other professional occasions
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Czechoslovakia April-May 1994: conference on [Prague Spring in] 1968, Gesky Krumlov
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Czechoslovakia 1993: Opocno, Kutna Hora
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Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds
Part of Harold Gordon Skilling fonds