Eric Partridge

His writing career was interrupted only by his service in the Army Education Corps and the RAF correspondence department during World War II.

[6] After receiving his degree, Partridge became Queensland Travelling Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford,[6] where he worked on both an MA on eighteenth-century English romantic poetry, and a B.Litt in comparative literature.

[8] He subsequently taught in a grammar school in Lancashire for a brief interval, then in the two years beginning September 1925, took lecturing positions at the Universities of Manchester and London.

The Scholartis Press published more than 60 books in these four years,[1] including Songs and Slang of the British Soldier 1914-1918, which Partridge co-authored with John Brophy.

[1] During the Second World War, Partridge served in the Army Education Corps, later transferring to the RAF's correspondence department, before returning to his British Museum desk in 1945.