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United Nations 10
University of Oxford 7
Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service 6
Labour Party 4
University of Oxford | Department of History of Art 4
Fabian Colonial Bureau 3
Feilding | Lady | Elisabeth Theresa | née Fox-Strangways | 1773–1846 | formerly Talbot 3
League of Nations 3
Purcell | Henry | c 1659-1695 | composer 3
Sancroft | William | 1617-1693 | Archbishop of Canterbury 3
University of Cambridge 3
Wharton | Philip | 1613-1696 | 4th Baron Wharton 3
Africa Bureau | 1952-1978 2
Anti-Apartheid Movement 2
Attorney General of Ireland | Ireland 2
Bartholdy | Jacob Ludwig Felix | Mendelssohn- | 1809-1847 | composer 2
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 2
Bodleian Library 2
Bradley | James | 1693-1762 | Chaplain to Bishop of Hereford, astronomer 2
Brooke | family | Rajahs of Sarawak 2
Buache | Philippe | 1700-1773 | geographer 2
Butler | James | 1610-1688 | 1st Duke of Ormonde | soldier and statesman 2
Carte | Thomas | 1686-1754 | historian 2
Charles II | 1630-1685 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 2
Church of England | Diocese of Canterbury 2
Connolly | Helga Mary | 1916-1985 | née Guinness, other married name Greene | literary agent 2
Conservative Party 2
Conservative Party | Conservative Campaign Headquarters 2
Conservative Party | Conservative Central Office 2
Conservative Party | Conservatives in the European Parliament 2
Davies | Sir | John | 1569-1626 | Knight | Attorney General of Ireland and Poet 2
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 2
Edgcumbe | Lady | Caroline Augusta | Mount | 1808–1881 | née Feilding 2
European Parliament | European Conservative Group 2
European Parliament | European Democratic Group 2
Fitzwilliam | Sir | William | 1526-1599 | Knight | Lord Deputy of Ireland 2
Gaisford | Henrietta Horatia Maria | 1810–1851 | née Feilding 2
Gentili | Alberico | 1552-1608 | Italian jurist 2
Harcourt | Edward William | 1825-1891 | politician 2
Harcourt | Edward | 1757-1847 | formerly Venables-Vernon | Archbishop of York 2
Harcourt | Family | Nuneham Courtenay 2
Harcourt | Family | Stanton Harcourt 2
Harcourt | George Granville | 1785-1861 | formerly Venables-Vernon | MP, Barrister 2
Harcourt | George Simon | 1736-1809 | 2nd Earl Harcourt 2
Harcourt | Simon | 1714-1777 | 1st Earl Harcourt | politician 2
Harcourt | Simon | c 1661-1727 | 1st Viscount Harcourt | Lord Chancellor 2
Harcourt | William | 1743-1830 | 3rd Earl Harcourt | Field Marshal 2
Harcourt | William | Venables Vernon | 1789-1871 | Canon of York, chemist 2
Huddleston | Ernest Urban Trevor | 1913-1998 | Archbishop of the Indian Ocean and member of the Community of the Resurrection 2
Jommelli | Niccolò | 1714-1774 | composer 2
Jones | Arthur | Creech | 1891-1964 | statesman 2
Lord Deputy of Ireland | Ireland 2
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | Ireland 2
Lugard | Frederick John Dealtry | 1858-1945 | Baron Lugard of Abinger | colonial administrator, soldier and author 2
Middleton | Charles | c. 1650-1719 | 2nd Earl of Middleton | statesman 2
Montagu | Edward | 1625-1672 | 1st Earl of Sandwich | admiral 2
Nairne | David | fl 1720 | Secretary to the Pretender 2
Oxfam GB 2
Perham | Dame | Margery Freda | 1895-1982 | historian 2
Petit de Billier | Amélina | 1798-1876 | governess 2
Phillipps | Sir Thomas | 1792-1872 | Baronet | Antiquary, and Collector of MSS and Books 2
Rawlinson | Richard | 1690-1755 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 2
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 2
Social Democratic Party 2
Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 2
Stuart | James Francis Edward | 1688-1766 | the 'old Pretender' 2
Talbot | Ela Theresa | 1835-1893 2
Talbot | Rosamond Constance | 1837-1906 2
Talbot | William Henry Fox | 1800-1877 | MP, pioneer of photography 2
Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 2
The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society 2
Wharton | Thomas | 1648-1716 | 1st Marquess of Wharton 2
Aborigines Protection Society (Great Britain) Aborigines Protection Society (Great Britain). 1
Albinoni | Tomaso Giovanni | 1671-1750/1751 | composer 1
Aldrich | Henry | 1648-1710 | composer 1
Allen | Helen Mary | 1872-1952 1
Allen | Percy Stafford | 1869-1933 | President of Corpus Christi College Oxford 1
Allin | Sir | Thomas | 1612-1685 | Knight | Admiral 1
Almayrac | Germaine | 1903-1997 | French secretary to the Polish government-in-exile 1
Anerio | Felice | c 1560-1614 | composer 1
Annan | Kofi Atta | 1938-2018 | diplomat 1
Anson | Thomas William | 1795-1854 | 1st Earl of Lichfield | politician 1
Anstee | Dame | Margaret Joan | 1926-2016 | United Nations civil servant 1
Anti-Slavery International 1
Anti-Slavery International for the Protection of Human Rights. 1
Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights 1
Anti-slavery Society (Great Britain) 1
Anti-slavery and Aborigines Protection Society (Great Britain). 1
Aquinas | Thomas | 1225-1274 | Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic Priest 1
Arne | Thomas Augustine | 1710-1778 | composer 1
Ash | John Sidney | 1925-2014 | ornithologist 1
Austrian Philharmonic Society 1
Ayer | Sir | Alfred Jules | 1910-1989 | Knight | philosopher 1
Bach | Johann Christian | 1735-1782 | composer 1
Ballard | George | 1705-1755 | Antiquary 1
Baltzar | Thomas | 1631-1663 | violinist and composer 1
Banbury Clerical Society 1
Barber | Martin | Former Director of United Nations Mine Action Service 1
Barea | Ilsa | 1902-1973 | nee Pollak | Austrian writer and translator 1
Barker | Edmund Henry | 1788-1839 | Classical Scholar 1

Additional papers of Alfred Jules Ayer

 Collection
Additional papers of Alfred Jules Ayer (1910-1989), philosopher.
Extents: 0.28 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 1947, 1959, 1961-1989, n.d.

Additional papers of Dame Margaret Joan Anstee

 Collection
Papers and correspondence of Dame Margaret Joan Anstee (1926-2016), United Nations civil servant
Extents: 126 boxes ; 55.59 Linear metres (155 boxes)
Dates: 1955-2016

Additional papers of Sir Cecil Clementi

 Collection
Official and personal papers of Sir Cecil Clementi (1875-1947), colonial governor, with papers of his wife, Lady Penelope Clementi (1889–1970) and other family members.
Extents: 17.0 Linear metres (107 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1871-2013

Additional papers of Sir Ronald Syme

 Collection
Additional papers of Sir Ronald Syme (1903-1989), classical historian.
Extents: 10.05 Linear metres (67 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1830s-1990s

Additional papers of the Earls of Clarendon (2nd creation) and the Villiers family

 Collection
Additional papers of the Earls of Clarendon, chiefly of statesman George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800-1870).
Extents: 14.18 Linear metres (39 boxes)
Dates: 1600-1962, n.d.

Additional papers of the Harcourt family

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Harcourt family of Stanton Harcourt and Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, 1663-1917.
Extents: 8.58 Linear metres (78 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1663-1917, n.d.

Additional papers of the North family

 Collection
Additional papers of the North family, including estate papers, 1707-1845, and estate papers of related families, 1573-1677.
Extents: 2.75 Linear metres (25 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1573-1916

Additional papers of the United Nations Career Records Project (UNCRP)

 Collection
Additional papers collected as part of the United Nations Career Records Project.
Extents: 1.75 Linear metres (13 boxes)
Dates: 1944-2017

Airs for stringed instruments by Dutch and English composers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. f. 573 (Former reference: Music School A. 3. 27)
Notebook, probably of Dutch origin, in which three hands collected airs by Dutch and English composers for stringed instruments; in some cases a second part is lacking, [c 1700].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c 1700

Albert Anthony Visetti: 'Danse chantée (on an old Venetian theme of the 16th century)'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 458
'Danse chantée (on an old Venetian theme of the 16th century)' by Albert Anthony Visetti, [c 1920?].
Extents: 31 pages
Dates: [c.1920?]

Album of manuscript verse by Caroline de Crespigny, Thomas Medwin and other contemporary English and German poets, with some original drawings and watercolours

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 11916
Caroline de Crespigny’s album is made up predominantly of original autograph verse by herself, Thomas Medwin and the German poets they encountered and translated. Tipped in, pinned or loosely inserted are also original drawings and watercolours, together with cut-outs and press cuttings, and one music manuscript. As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished. A number of other pieces remain unidentified.
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates: 1838-1861, n.d.

Album relating to Wroxton Abbey with two papal bulls

 Collection
Album relating to Wroxton Abbey with two papal bulls
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1839-1913

Albums containing songs in English, French, and Italian

 Collection
Albums containing songs in English, French, and Italian, for solo voice piano.
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1830-1831

Albums of photographs and prints collected by Oxford University History of Art Department

 Collection
Albums of photographs and prints of European art, architecture and landscape collected by Oxford University History of Art Department.
Extents: 0.572 Linear metres (13 boxes)
Dates: 1861-1887 and n.d. [c.1860-1930]

Annotated scripts of Michael York

 Collection
Annotated scripts of Michael York
Extents: 5.28 Linear metres (48 boxes)
Dates: 1966-1988

Archive of A.H. Clough

 Collection
Archive of A.H. Clough
Extents: 1.85 Linear metres (31 boxes)
Dates: 1829-1900

Archive of Albert Thomas Matson

 Collection
Archive of Albert Thomas Matson
Extents: 3.08 linear metres (70 boxes)
Dates: 1831-1989

Archive of Aldred F.G.B. Lumley (Earl of Scarbrough) relating to the Royal Niger Company

 Collection
Archive of Aldred Frederick George Beresford Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough, relating to the Royal Niger Company, Chartered and Limited and the Niger Company, Limited.
Extents: 0.84 linear metres (19 volumes)
Dates: 1887-1932

Archive of Alexander Mair Wilkie

 Collection
Archive of Alexander Mair Wilkie (1917-1966), colonial administrator.
Extents: 0.4 linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 1935-1969

Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the poet and writer Anne Ridler (1912-2001) and her husband Vivian Ridler (1913-2009), printer to the Oxford University Press and founder of Perpetua Press.
Extents: 5.596 Linear metres (81 boxes)
Dates: 1836-2011, n.d.; Majority of material found within 1927 - 2011