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20th century 5092
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Humanities 721
Ornithology 386
Letters 325
Music 325
18th century 323
Birds 307
Literature 278
21st century 248
17th century 221
English literature 154
Oxfordshire (England) 154
Music -- Manuscripts -- 20th century 151
Religion 147
Letters -- 20th century 142
Social sciences 134
Poetry 131
English literature -- 20th century 130
16th century 128
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century 124
Church records and registers 119
Correspondence 97
Local history 97
History 96
Photographs 96
Composers -- England -- Manuscripts 94
Oxford (England) 89
University of Oxford -- Societies, etc. 80
University of Oxford -- Examinations -- Music 74
Diaries 70
English poetry -- 20th century 70
Poets 69
Diaries -- 20th century 64
Science 64
World War, 1914-1918 55
Parishes -- England -- Oxfordshire 54
Authors -- 20th century 52
Genealogy 51
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration 49
Philosophy 49
Antiquarians 46
Art 46
University of Oxford 45
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa 44
Parish churches -- England -- Oxfordshire 43
Authors 41
Manuscripts 39
Politics and Government 38
Lectures and lecturing 37
Songs with piano 37
x - 15th century 37
English poetry 36
India 36
Diaries -- 19th century 35
Nigeria -- Officials and employees 35
World War, 1939-1945 35
Children's literature -- 20th century 33
Parishes -- England 33
Poetry -- 20th century 32
Theology 32
Universities and colleges 32
Africa 31
Journalism 31
Literature -- 20th century 31
Photography 31
Biography 30
Science -- History -- 20th century 30
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century 29
Novelists -- 20th century 29
Piano music 29
Colonial administrators 28
Autobiography 27
Medicine 27
Philosophy -- 20th century 27
Bodleian Library 26
Novelists -- 19th century 26
Poems 26
Speeches, addresses, etc. 26
Berkshire (England) 25
Education 25
South Africa 25
Conservative Party (Great Britain) 24
Essays 24
Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 24
Orchestral music 24
Artists 23
Library catalogs 23
Universities and colleges -- England -- Oxford -- Societies 23
x - 14th century 23
Academic writing 22
Art -- History 22
Great Britain -- Politics and Government -- 20th century 22
Historians 22
Authors, English -- 20th century 21
Labour Party (Great Britain) -- History -- 20th Century 21
Playwriting -- Drama 21
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 21
Bibliography 20
Dissertations, Academic 20
Indexed names
Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service 107
University of Oxford 102
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 79
Church of England 77
Conservative Party 64
Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 39
Conservative Party | Conservative Central Office 37
Goadby | Frank Reginald Lindsay | 1899-1985 | Brigadier Historian of Standlake 36
United Nations 32
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 27
Bodleian Library 24
Bryce | James | 1838-1922 | 1st Viscount Bryce | British diplomat and politician 24
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 23
Conservative Party | professional headquarters 22
Rhodes | Cecil John | 1853-1902 | imperialist, colonial politician and mining entrepreneur 22
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 19
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 18
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 18
Asquith | Herbert Henry | 1852-1928 | 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith | statesman 17
Harris | C. G | Oxfordshire Family History Society 17
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 15
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 15
Butterworth | George Sainton Kaye | 1885-1916 | composer and folk song collector 14
Oxfam GB 14
Oxford Development Records Project 13
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 13
Asquith | Margaret Emma Alice | 1864-1945 | née Tennant | Countess of Oxford and Asquith | political hostess and diarist 12
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 12
Conservative Party | Conservative Research Department 11
Conservative Party | National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations 11
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 11
Gibson | Strickland | 1877-1958 | Librarian and Bibliographer 11
Labour Party 11
Madan | Falconer | 1851-1935 | Bodley's Librarian, palaeographer and bibliographer 11
Finzi | Gerald Raphael | 1901-1956 | composer 10
Ker | Neil Ripley | 1908-1982 | palaeographer and bibliographer 10
Oxford University Dramatic Society 10
Attlee | Clement Richard | 1883-1967 | 1st Earl Attlee | politician and prime minister 9
Hailey | William Malcolm | 1872-1969 | 1st Baron Hailey 9
Hodgkin | Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | 1910-1994 | nee Crowfoot | chemist 9
Salter | Herbert Edward | 1863-1951 | Historian 9
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 8
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 8
Collingwood | Robin George | 1889-1943 | philosopher and historian 8
Fairbank | Alfred John | 1895-1982 | calligrapher 8
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 8
Milner | Alfred | 1854-1925 | Viscount Milner | statesman 8
Sadler | Sir | Michael Ernest | 1861-1943 | Knight | educational pioneer and art patron 8
University of Oxford | Christ Church 8
Wellesz | Egon | 1885-1974 | composer, lecturer 8
Anderson | Ava | 1896-1974 | née Bodley | wife of Viscount Waverley 7
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 7
Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 7
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 7
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 7
Jennings | Elizabeth Joan | 1926-2001 | poet 7
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 7
Murdoch | Dame | Iris | 1919-1999 | novelist and philosopher 7
Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 7
Skinner | Martyn | 1906-1993 | Poet 7
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 7
United Nations Career Records Project | 1989-1992 7
University of Oxford | Department of History of Art 7
Warner | Stephen Alfred | fl. 1907-1948 | Antiquary 7
Aristotle | 384-322 BC | Greek philosopher 6
Austin | John Langshaw | 1911-1960 | philosopher 6
British South Africa Company 6
Church Missionary Society 6
Conservative Party | Conservative Political Centre 6
Conservative Party | affiliated organisations 6
Conservative Party | parliamentary party 6
Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 6
Eliot | Thomas Stearns | 1888-1965 | poet 6
Farrer | Austin Marsden | 1904-1968 | philosopher and theologian 6
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 6
Lugard | Frederick John Dealtry | 1858-1945 | Baron Lugard of Abinger | colonial administrator, soldier and author 6
Oxford University 6
Oxford University Scout and Guide Group 6
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 6
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 6
Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 6
Thwaite | Ann Barbara | 1932 | née Harrop | biographer 6
University of Oxford | Jesus College 6
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 6
Walker | Ernest | 1870-1949 | author, pianist, and composer 6
Williams | Ralph | Vaughan | 1872-1958 | composer 6
Bartholdy | Jacob Ludwig Felix | Mendelssohn- | 1809-1847 | composer 5
Baskin | Leonard | 1922-2000 | artist and publisher 5
Berlin | Sir | Isaiah | 1909-1997 | Knight | historian and philosopher 5
Conservative Party | Conservative Campaign Headquarters 5
Conservative Party | Conservatives in the European Parliament 5
Conservative Party | Swinton College 5
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 5
Deneke | Margaret Clara Adèle | 1882-1969 | author and musicologist 5
Disraeli | Benjamin | 1804-1881 | Earl of Beaconsfield | statesman 5
Elgar | Sir | Edward William | 1857-1934 | Baronet | composer 5
Federation of University Conservative and Unionist Associations 5
Ferguson | Howard | 1908-1999 | composer 5
Fisher | Herbert Albert Laurens | 1865-1940 | historian and statesman 5
Gladstone | William Ewart | 1809-1898 | statesman 5

6 letters from Alfred Fairbank to Desmond Flower

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 575
6 letters from Alfred Fairbank to Desmond Flower.
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates: 1932, 1936

19 letters to Albert Frederick Pollard

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 462, fols. 210-237
19 letters to Albert Frederick Pollard.
Extents: 28 Leaves
Dates: 1916-1947

41 poems by W.H. Auden, copied for his mother

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 153
41 poems by W.H. Auden, copied for his mother, probably about 1925, in a notebook.
Extents: 77 Leaves
Dates: c. 1925

82 letters from Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, to Patricia Beck, with 1 letter to Douglas Jay

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 571
82 letters from Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, to Patricia Beck, with 1 letter to Douglas Jay
Extents: 156 Leaves
Dates: 1957-1967

135 letters and notes of Walter de la Mare to John Freeman and to his wife Gertrude

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. d. 462
135 letters and notes of Walter de la Mare to John Freeman and to his wife Gertrude.
Extents: 181 Leaves
Dates: 1906-1952

1994 South African Election Material

 Collection
General policy documents and statements, leaflets, newspaper advertisements, etc., African National Congress; manifestos, general policy documents/statements, leaflets, etc., Democratic Party; manifestos, general policy document, leaflets, newspaper and newspaper advertisements, National Party; general policy documents/ statements, leaflets, information documents and newspaper advertisements, Inkatha Freedom Party; records relating to other political parties and associated organisations;...
Extents: 23 boxes
Dates: 1990s

1999 South African Election Material

 Collection
Election policy documents, videos, posters and leaflets, various parties; address of Nelson Mandela to the last session of the first Parliament; National Women's Day leaflet, [1997]; Job Creation Trust leaflet, 1999.
Extents: 6 boxes
Dates: [1999]

The abbey of St. Denis in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by J.M. Wallace-Hadrill, 1938

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 239
The abbey of St. Denis in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by J.M. Wallace-Hadrill, 1938.
Extents: 117 Leaves
Dates: 1938

The Abinger Papers

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Godwin and Shelley families, chiefly William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher and author; with the correspondence and papers of his family, including his wife, the novelist and essayist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); daughter, the author Mary Shelley (1797-1851); her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); and Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-89), and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley (d. 1899)
Extents: 206 shelfmarks
Dates: 1780-1937

Academic certificates of Dr. Martin Braun, 1933-1936, with a covering letter, in German, 1962

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 433, fols. 42-45
Academic certificates of Dr. Martin Braun, 1933-1936, with a covering letter, in German, 1962.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: 1933-1936, 1962

Academic papers of Albinia C. de la Mare

 Collection
Academic papers of Albinia C. de la Mare (1932-2001), librarian and palaeographer
Extents: 32.1 Linear metres (292 boxes)
Dates: 1930-2007

Academic papers of Dr. Abdul Raufu Mustapha

 Collection
Academic papers of Dr. Abdul Raufu Mustapha (1954-2017), Professor of African Politics, Oxford University
Extents: 2 Linear metres (14 boxes)
Dates: [1932]-2016

Acceptance letter of John Stonehouse, MP, to an invitation of F.T. Ingram

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8418, fol. 138
Acceptance letter of John Stonehouse, MP, to an invitation to a social evening to be hosted by a Birmingham Councillor F.T. Ingram on Saturday, 14 Dec 1974
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 29 Oct 1974

Account book of Glenburnie Estate, Uasin Gishu District, Kenya

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.r.193
Account book of Glenburnie Estate, Uasin Gishu District, Kenya, 1921-1959.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1921-1959

Account books of Alexander Kirby, George Kirby and Joseph Hillsdon, blacksmiths at Stoke Lyne, Oxfordshire

 Collection
Account books of Alexander Kirby, George Kirby and Joseph Hillsdon, successively blacksmiths at Stoke Lyne, Oxfordshire, 1823-1947.
Extents: 2.3 Linear metres (16 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1823-1947

Account Books of Brigadier Ralph Chenevix-Trench

 Collection
Account Books of Brigadier Ralph Chenevix-Trench
Extents: 1.14 Linear metres (18 boxes)
Dates: 1918-1962

Account Books of William Turner and Son, Wheelwrights, of Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire

 Collection
Account books of William Turner and Son, wheelwrights, of Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire, 1867-83, 1888-1919.
Extents: 3 shelfmarks
Dates: 1867-1919

Account by Archibald Robertson, Bishop of Exeter, of his primary visitation of Exeter cathedral

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Devon c. 21
Account by Archibald Robertson, Bishop of Exeter, of his primary visitation of Exeter cathedral, 1910.
Extents: 133 Leaves
Dates: 1910

Account by Henry Townsend Bourdillon of his service at the Colonial Office

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Brit.Emp.s.462
"British and French colonial policy": original manuscript and typed corrected copy of an account relating to service as assistant under-secretary of state at the Colonial Office, 1954-1959.
Extents: 17 Leaves
Dates: 1954-1959

Account by Hilda M. Pickard-Cambridge of her escape from Germany after the beginning of the First World War

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 790
Account by Hilda M. Pickard-Cambridge of her escape from Germany after the beginning of the First World War
Extents: 72 Leaves
Dates: 1914