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20th century 188
Correspondence 97
19th century 45
Humanities 33
Music 31
21st century 23
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century 23
English literature 21
Literature 18
Composers -- Correspondence 17
Poets 16
English poetry -- 20th century 15
18th century 14
English literature -- 20th century 14
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 14
Poetry 12
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 11
English poetry 11
Political planning 11
Education 9
Letters 9
17th century 8
Finance 8
Literature -- 20th century 8
16th century 7
Composers -- England -- Manuscripts 7
Elections -- Great Britain 7
Authors, English -- 20th century 6
Europe -- Politics and government 6
Great Britain 6
Novelists -- 20th century 6
Photographs 6
Poets, English -- Correspondence 6
Postcards 6
Antiquarians -- Great Britain -- Correspondence 5
Authors -- 20th century 5
Authors, English 5
Broadcasting -- Great Britain 5
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 21st century 5
Organization 5
Poetry -- 20th century 5
Politicians 5
Religion 5
World War, 1939-1945 5
Authors, English -- Correspondence 4
Economics 4
English poetry -- Women authors 4
Farm management -- Records and correspondence 4
India 4
Labour Party (Great Britain) -- History -- 20th Century 4
Letters -- 20th century 4
Musicians -- Correspondence 4
Musicologists -- Correspondence 4
Ornithology 4
Poets -- 20th century 4
Public opinion 4
World War, 1914-1918 4
x - 15th century 4
Authors 3
Birds 3
Composers -- Portraits 3
Conservative Party (Great Britain) 3
Diaries 3
Diplomacy 3
European Economic Community 3
European Union 3
Great Britain -- Topography 3
Industrial relations -- Great Britain 3
International relations 3
Lectures and lecturing 3
Literary criticism 3
Music -- Manuscripts -- 20th century 3
Oxfordshire (England) 3
Politicians -- Great Britain -- Correspondence 3
Publicity 3
Soldiers -- Correspondence 3
Speeches, addresses, etc. 3
Training 3
United Nations Development Programme 3
University of Oxford 3
Women 3
Women -- Political activity 3
Africa -- Officials and employees 2
Antiquarian booksellers 2
Antiquarian booksellers -- Correspondence 2
Antiquarians 2
Archaeology 2
Art 2
Art, British -- 20th century 2
Books 2
Books and reading 2
Charities -- Great Britain 2
China 2
Civil service 2
Civil service -- Great Britain 2
Colonial administrators -- Correspondence 2
Colonial administrators -- Nigeria -- Correspondence 2
Conservative Party (Great Britain) -- History 2
Diaries -- 20th century 2
Editors -- England -- Correspondence 2
Indexed names
Conservative Party 20
Conservative Party | Conservative Central Office 15
Conservative Party | professional headquarters 14
Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service 6
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 6
Conservative Party | Conservative Research Department 5
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 4
Jones | Monica Margaret Beal | 1922-2001 | lecturer in English 4
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 4
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 4
Bartholdy | Jacob Ludwig Felix | Mendelssohn- | 1809-1847 | composer 3
Conservative Party | Conservative Campaign Headquarters 3
Conservative Party | National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations | National Advisory Committees 3
Conservative Party | Steering Committee 3
Conservative Party | parliamentary party 3
Conservative Party | party officials 3
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 3
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 3
United Nations 3
Wellesz | Egon | 1885-1974 | composer, lecturer 3
Asquith | Herbert Henry | 1852-1928 | 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith | statesman 2
Asquith | Margaret Emma Alice | 1864-1945 | née Tennant | Countess of Oxford and Asquith | political hostess and diarist 2
Butterworth | George Sainton Kaye | 1885-1916 | composer and folk song collector 2
Butterworth | Sir | Alexander Kaye | 1854-1946 | Knight | railway manager 2
Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 2
Conservative Party | Advisory Committee on Policy 2
Conservative Party | Conservative Political Centre 2
Conservative Party | Leader's Consultative Committee 2
Conservative Party | National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations 2
Conservative Party | National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations | Women's National Advisory Committee 2
Conservative Party | Organisation Department 2
Conservative Party | Swinton College 2
Conservative Party | training colleges 2
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 2
Dampier | John Lucius | 1792-1853 | Vice-Warden of the Stannaries Court 2
Deneke | Margaret Clara Adèle | 1882-1969 | author and musicologist 2
Eames | John Wallace | fl 1911-1930 | settler in Kenya 2
Finzi | Gerald Raphael | 1901-1956 | composer 2
Fisher | Herbert Albert Laurens | 1865-1940 | historian and statesman 2
Fraser | Richard Michael | 1915-1996 | Baron Fraser of Kilmorack 2
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 2
Marvell Press | publisher 2
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 2
Parry | Sir | Charles Hubert Hastings | 1848-1918 | Knight | composer and musical writer 2
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 2
Queen's University Belfast 2
Rosenthal | Julia | b 1953 | antiquarian book and music dealer 2
Rubbra | Charles Edmund Duncan | 1901-1986 | pianist and composer 2
Simpson | Robert Wilfred Levick | 1921-1997 | composer 2
Smyth | Dame | Ethel Mary | 1858–1944 | composer, writer and suffragist 2
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 2
University of Hull 2
University of Oxford 2
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 2
Walker | Ernest | 1870–1949 | author, pianist and composer 2
A. Rosenthal Ltd. (antiquarian bookseller) 1
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 1
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 1
Aldrich | Henry | 1648-1710 | composer 1
Allingham | Helen Mary Elizabeth | 1848–1926 | watercolour artist 1
Anderson | Emily | 1891-1962 | editor and translator 1
Armstrong | Edward Allworthy | 1900-1978 | ornithologist, priest 1
Astor | Francis David Langhorne | 1912-2001 | newspaper editor and philanthropist 1
Astor | Nancy Witcher | 1879-1964 | née Langhorne | society hostess, politician and wife of 2nd Viscount Astor 1
Astor | family 1
Astruc | G. | 18..-19.. | composer 1
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 1
Ault | Mary | née O’Hea | 1928-2019 | Antiquarian bookseller (assistant) 1
Bacon | Dame | Elizabeth | c.1541-1621 | also Elizabeth Doyley and Elizabeth Periam | aristocrat 1
Baker | Samuel | fl. c.1690 1
Barber | Martin | Former Director of United Nations Mine Action Service 1
Barley | Walter Shearsmith | 1870-1910 | soldier 1
Barraud | Henry | 1900-1997 | composer 1
Bartholdy | Cécile | Mendelssohn- | 1817-1853 | wife of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 1
Beethoven | Ludwig van | 1770-1827 | composer and pianist 1
Bentinck | Lord | William George Frederick | Cavendish- | 1802-1848 | Politician and sportsman 1
Berlin | Sir | Isaiah | 1909-1997 | Knight | historian and philosopher 1
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 1
Birrell | Augustine | 1850-1933 | author and statesman 1
Blaschko | Hugh [formerly Karl Felix Hermann] | 1900-1993 | biochemist and pharmacologist 1
Blayney | Benjamin | 1727/8-1801 | Hebraist and Church of England clergyman 1
Blind | Karl | 1826-1907 | political refugee and author 1
Bloomsbury Group (London, England) 1
Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 1
Blücher | Gebhard Lebrecht | von | 1742-1819 | field-marshall 1
Bodington | Sir | Nathan | 1848–1911 | Greek scholar, university administrator, and knight 1
Booth | Paul Henry | Gore- | 1909-1984 | Baron Gore-Booth of Maltby | diplomat 1
Bosanquet | Eustace F. | 1871-1940 | book historian 1
Bostock | Peter Geoffrey | b 1911 | Archdeacon of Doncaster 1
Bottomley | Gordon | 1874-1948 | Poet and playwright 1
Bradley | Henry | 1845-1923 | Philologist and lexicographer 1
Bretherton | John Christopher | 1925-2015 1
Brice-Smith | Hugh Middleton | b 1884 | Colonial Administrator 1
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 1
Briscoe | A. | Tindale | fl. c.1895 1
Briscoe | John | fl. 1872 | surgeon of Oxford prison 1
Britten | Edward Benjamin | 1913-1976 | composer, conductor, and pianist 1
Bryce | James | 1838-1922 | 1st Viscount Bryce | British diplomat and politician 1
Buckland | William | 1784-1856 | Dean of Westminster, geologist 1
Budden | Frank Howard | b 1919 | Colonial Medical Officer 1

Archive of John Hungerford Pollen and the Pollen Family

 Collection
The archive of John Hungerford Pollen (1820-1902), decorative artist and Roman Catholic convert, and the Pollen family, 1828-2017.
Extents: 6.0 Linear metres (44 boxes; 2 digital shelfmarks)
Dates: 1828-2017

Archive of Michael Davies

 Collection
Political and administrative drafts and papers of Michael Davies (b. 1944), senior United Nations civil servant.
Extents: 0.9 Linear metres (6 boxes)
Dates: 1961-2012

Archive of Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Baron Paul Gore-Booth (diplomat), and his family
Extents: 11.78 Linear metres (232 boxes)
Dates: 1815-1984, n.d.

Archive of Robert Simpson

 Collection
The archive of the composer Robert Simpson comprising predominantly photocopies of Simpson's music manuscripts, his writings and recordings, together with printed material (concert programmes, published music and books from the composer's library). Material created by the Robert Simpson Society also forms part of this archive.
Extents: 25.0 Linear metres (117 boxes)
Dates: c.1840-2016, n.d.

Archive of Samuel Kutcher

 Collection
Collection of material kept by the solo, ensemble and orchestral violinist Samuel Kutcher (1898-1984), comprising his personal papers, promotional material for concerts he performed in and their press reviews.
Extents: 1.7 Linear metres (11 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1908-1991, n.d.

Archive of Sir Clement Pleass

 Collection
Personal and political papers of Sir Clement Pleass (1901-1988), colonial governor
Extents: 5.97 Linear metres (17 boxes)
Dates: 1911-1966

Archive of Sir Peter F. Strawson

 Collection
Academic and personal papers of Sir Peter F. Strawson, Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College) (1968-1987).
Extents: 1.8 Linear metres (12 boxes)
Dates: 1942-[c. 2000s], n.d.

Archive of the antiquarian bookseller A. Rosenthal Ltd. and the personal archive of Albi Rosenthal (1914-2004)

 Collection
The archive of the antiquarian bookseller A. Rosenthal Ltd. comprising sale catalogues, research and administrative material, together with Albrecht (Albi) Rosenthal's personal archive, including extensive correspondence, 1652-2015, n.d.
Extents: 10.0 Linear metres (119 boxes)
Dates: 1652-2019, n.d.

Archive of the Fabian Colonial Bureau

 Collection
Archive of the Fabian Colonial Bureau
Extents: 9.53 linear metres (206 boxes)
Dates: 1921-1967

Archive of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust

 Collection
Correspondence, papers and financial records relating to the Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust.
Extents: 5.35 Linear metres (76 boxes)
Dates: [1910]-2016

Archive of the Smyly family

 Collection
Papers of the Smyly family, particularly H. Jocelyn Smyly (1882-1970), doctor and missionary, his wife Eileen Smyly, née Bell (1894-1987), doctor and missionary, and their sons William Smyly (1922-2018), journalist and teacher, and David Smyly (1923-1990), doctor and missionary.
Extents: 8.68 Linear metres (59 shelfmarks)
Dates: c. 1856-2015

Archive of Winifred Gill

 Collection
Papers of Winifred Gill, artist, writer and social reformer
Extents: 11.08 Linear metres (73 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1st century and 1880s-2008

Autograph albums and letters belonging to John Farmer

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 15630
Autograph albums and letters belonging to John Farmer, 1843-1912, n.d.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1843-1912, n.d.

'Basque miscellanea'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Basque d. 3
'Basque miscellanea'
Extents: 23 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1901-1902

Brands directory and correspondence to John Wallace Eames (microfilm)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Micr.Afr.584
Brands directory, 1913-1914, and coffee brokers' correspondence, 1931-1933, to Eames as settler and farmer in the Solai Valley. Microfilm.
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1913-1914, 1931-1933

Archive of Sir Malcolm Pasley

 Collection
Archive of Sir Malcolm Pasley (1926-2004), with the majority of papers relating to Franz Kafka, 1910-2002, n.d.
Extents: 5 Linear metres (20 boxes)
Dates: 1910-2002, n.d.

Collection of material relating to George Butterworth, his father Alexander Kaye Butterworth and Lady Butterworth (née Ionides)

 Collection
Photographs and correspondence between members of the Butterworth family and significant figures from the musical and literary world in England at the turn of the 20th century.
Extents: 0.6 Linear metres (3 shelfmarks)
Dates: 1888?-2014?

Collection of miscellaneous letters mainly from antiquaries and authors, with some from publishers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. b. 32
Collection of miscellaneous letters mainly from antiquaries and authors, with some from publishers
Extents: 369 Leaves
Dates: 1719-1943

Conservative Party Archive: Advisory Committee on Policy (and Political Education)

 Collection
Records of the Advisory Committee on Policy, 1946-1981, including correspondence, minutes and papers.
Extents: 53.0 shelfmarks
Dates: 1946-1981, n.d.

Conservative Party Archive: Conservative Central Office - Area Files

 Collection
Area files, consisting of correspondence, memoranda and papers with and about the Area Offices and Associations.
Extents: 140 shelfmarks
Dates: 1949-1969