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20th century 5088
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Humanities 713
Ornithology 386
Letters 325
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18th century 323
Birds 307
Literature 277
21st century 245
17th century 221
Oxfordshire (England) 154
English literature 153
Music -- Manuscripts -- 20th century 151
Religion 147
Letters -- 20th century 142
Poetry 131
English literature -- 20th century 130
Social sciences 130
16th century 128
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century 123
Church records and registers 119
Correspondence 97
Local history 97
Photographs 96
Composers -- England -- Manuscripts 94
History 93
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 34
Children's literature -- 20th century 33
Parishes -- England 33
Poetry -- 20th century 32
Theology 32
Universities and colleges 32
Africa 31
Literature -- 20th century 31
Biography 30
Journalism 30
Photography 30
Science -- History -- 20th century 30
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century 29
Piano music 29
Colonial administrators 28
Novelists -- 20th century 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
Essays 24
Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 24
Orchestral music 24
Artists 23
Conservative Party (Great Britain) 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
Labour Party (Great Britain) -- History -- 20th Century 21
Playwriting -- Drama 21
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 21
Authors, English -- 20th century 20
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
Rhodes | Cecil John | 1853-1902 | imperialist, colonial politician and mining entrepreneur 23
Conservative Party | professional headquarters 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
British South Africa Company 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
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

Account by Ralph Straus of a conversation between himself and H. G. Wells about the attacks on The New Machiavelli

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 342
Account by Ralph Straus of a conversation between himself and H. G. Wells about the attacks on The New Machiavelli
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates: c. 1910

Account by Sir Hugh Orange of the Chevalier de l'Etang and his descendants in the Pattle family

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 718
Account by Sir Hugh Orange of the Chevalier de l'Etang and his descendants in the Pattle family
Extents: 94 Leaves
Dates: c. 1940

Account by Sir Percy Loraine and list of books

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 308
Account by Sir Percy Loraine and list of books, August-September 1929.
Extents: 87 Leaves
Dates: Aug-Sep 1929

Account by Sir Robert de Zouche Hall of Mary Kingsley and Sir Matthew Nathan

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 652, fols. 106-116
Account by Sir Robert de Zouche Hall of Mary Kingsley and Sir Matthew Nathan
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: 1963

Account of a car journey through France by Cuthbert Burgoyne

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 2973
Account of a car journey through France by Cuthbert Burgoyne, 1924.
Extents: 203 Leaves
Dates: 5 Sept. -5 Oct. 1924

Account of a visit of the Newbury District Field Club to Littlecote House

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Wilts. c. 3
Account of a visit of the Newbury District Field Club to Littlecote House, c.1900.
Extents: 15 Leaves
Dates: c.1900

'Account of Rousham, Oxfordshire, and of some persons and places connected with it. By F. E. C. D.'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon d. 60
'Account of Rousham, Oxfordshire, and of some persons and places connected with it. By F. E. C. D.'
Extents: 89 Leaves
Dates: Type-written in A.D. 1903 by F. E. Cottrell-Dormer

Account of the Naval Society, and the Naval Review, by Admiral Sir William H. Henderson, 1916

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 225
Account of the Naval Society, and the Naval Review, by Admiral Sir William H. Henderson, 1916.
Extents: 78 Leaves
Dates: 1916

Account of the Oxford reformers of the Church of England by G. F. Bridges of Oxford, titled 'The Oxford giants and church principles, their rise, trial and triumph'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. e. 543/1-2
G. F. Bridges, An account of the Oxford reformers of the Church of England
Extents: 218 leaves (volume 1) (206 leaves (volume 2))
Dates: 1860-1862

Account of the siege of Kimberley by James Robertson (photocopy)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.r.227
Account of the siege of Kimberley, 1899-1900, by James Robertson. Photocopied manuscript.
Extents: 43 ff.
Dates: 1899-1900

Accounts by J. Duncan Relating to Dissenting Churches and Churchmen in Bury St. Edmunds from the 16th to the 19th Century

 Collection
Pamphlets containing accounts by J. Duncan of dissenting churches and churchmen in Bury St. Edmunds from the 16th to the 19th century.
Extents: 0.15 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 1955-61

Accounts of Holiday Journeys by Dorothy M. Frost

 Collection
Typescript accounts by Dorothy M. Frost of holiday journeys to the north of England and Scotland, 1929; Germany, Italy and France, 1931, and Germany, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland and France, 1933.
Extents: 3 shelfmarks
Dates: 1929-1933

Accounts of life in Tanganyika by John Allen and his family

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 13151
Accounts of life in Tanganyika by John Allen and his family.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1946-2018

Additional family papers of (Henry) Graham Pollard, bookseller and bibliographer

 Collection
Family correspondence of (Henry) Graham Pollard (1903-1976), bookseller and bibliographer.
Extents: 0.45 Linear metres (3 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1916-1959

Additional Goodhart papers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8238, fols. 38-44
Additional Goodhart papers, 1975
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates: 1975

Additional historical papers of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 15877
A small amount of biographical material relating to Dr. Norman Heatley's contribution to the development of penicillin at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [1942]-2004, n.d.

Additional letters of condolence to Herbert Henry Asquith on the death of his eldest son, Raymond Asquith (1878-1916), and additional papers of Anthony Asquith

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 14910
Additional letters of condolence to Herbert Henry Asquith on the death of his eldest son, Raymond Asquith (1878-1916), and additional papers of Anthony Asquith.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1776, 1916-1945

Additional letters, postcards and cards sent by Philip Larkin to Monica Jones, with three photographs

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22131
Letters from Philip Larkin, poet and librarian, to Monica Jones, teacher and academic.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 9 Aug 1962-15 Oct 1978, n.d.

Additional logbooks of St. Agnes Bird Observatory

 Collection
Additional log books of the St. Agnes Bird Observatory, Isles of Scilly.
Extents: 1.46 Linear metres (10 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1957-1969

Additional material from the archive of Gerald Finzi

 Collection
Part of the archive of the composer Gerlad Finzi consisting mainly of music manuscripts, [mid-18th cent.]-1992, n.d.
Extents: 8.0 Linear metres (92 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: [mid-18th cent.]-1992, n.d.