While at Oxford, he devoted himself to his pupils and his classes, at the expense of his own research. He was Editor of the "Journal of Egyptian Archaeology" from 1934 to 1939, and was in active correspondence with a large number of other Egyptologists, all over the world. During World War II several of his students (including Alec Naylor Dakin) worked on code breaking at Bletchley Park. Other students include Ricardo Caminos, Warren Royal Dawson, Peter Lewis Shinnie, Paul E. Kahle and T. G. H. James.