Editing SOAS University of London (section)

===Second World War===
For a period in the mid-1930s, prior to moving to its current location at Thornhaugh Street, [[Bloomsbury]], the school was located at Vandon House, Vandon Street, London SW1, with the library located at [[Clarence House]]. Its move to new premises in Bloomsbury was held up by delays in construction and the half-completed building took a hit during the [[The Blitz|Blitz]] in September 1940. With the onset of the [[Second World War]], many University of London colleges were evacuated from London in 1939 and billeted on universities in the rest of the country.<ref>''University of London: An Illustrated History: 1836–1986'' By N. B. p. 255.</ref> The School was, on the Government's advice, transferred to [[Christ's College, Cambridge]].<ref>Nature, 1939, Vol. 144(3659), pp. 1006–1007.</ref>

In 1940, when it became apparent that a return to London was possible, the school returned to the city and was housed for some months in eleven rooms at Broadway Court, 8 [[Broadway, London]] SW1. In 1942, the [[War Office]] joined with the school to create a scheme for State Scholarships to be offered to select grammar and public-school boys with linguistic ability to train as military translators and interpreters in Chinese, Japanese, [[Persian language|Persian]], and Turkish. Lodged at [[Dulwich College]] in south London, the students became affectionately known as ''the Dulwich boys''.<ref>Sadao Ōba, ''The "Japanese" War: London University's WWII secret teaching programme'', p. 11,</ref> One of these students was [[Charles Dunn (Japanologist)|Charles Dunn]], who became a prominent Japanologist on the faculty of the SOAS and a recipient of the [[Order of the Rising Sun]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Charles Dunn: Master of the rising sun|author=O'Neill, P G.|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=13 September 1995|page= 16}}</ref> Others included [[Peter Parker (British businessman)|Sir Peter Parker]] and [[Ronald P. Dore|Ronald Dore]]. Subsequently, the School ran a series of courses in Japanese, both for translators and for interpreters.<ref>Peter Kornicki, ''Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War with Japan'' (London: Hurst & Co., 2021), chapter 3.</ref>