Sonia Primrose Anderson (1944 - 8 September 2020) was an

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Career

Anderson gained a

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from the

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in 1970, where she studied at

Somerville College Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, ...

. She initially worked for the

Society of Antiquaries of London A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Soci ...

before moving to the

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where she remained for the rest of her working life. Sonia was the assistant editor of the ''Journal of the Society of Archivists'' for over sixteen years and had served as its reviews editor for a decade upon her retirement in 1992. She was elected as a fellow of the

in March 1994, and was also a fellow of the

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Select publications

*Anderson, S. 1989. ''An English Consul in Turkey: Paul Rycaut in Smyrna 1667-1678''. Oxford, Clarendon Press.

References

1944 births 2020 deaths Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford British archivists Fellows of the Royal Historical Society People associated with The National Archives (United Kingdom) Female archivists {{library-bio-stub