Between The Wars
Seton-Watson had played a prominent role in establishing a School of Slavonic Studies (later the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, now a faculty of University College London) in 1915, partly to provide employment for his then-exiled friend Masaryk, and in 1922 was appointed there as the first holder of the Masaryk chair in Central European history, a post he held until 1945. He concentrated on his academic duties especially after 1931, when stock-market losses removed much of his personal fortune, and was appreciated by his students despite being somewhat impractical--according to Steed, he was "unpunctual, untidy, and too preoccupied with other matters. Pupils were advised not to hand over their work to him, for it would probably be mislaid."
During this time he founded and edited The Slavonic Review with Sir Bernard Pares.
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