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18th century 323
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Literature 278
21st century 248
17th century 221
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16th century 128
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century 123
Church records and registers 119
Correspondence 98
Local history 97
Photographs 97
History 96
Composers -- England -- Manuscripts 95
Oxford (England) 89
University of Oxford -- Societies, etc. 80
University of Oxford -- Examinations -- Music 74
Diaries 70
English poetry -- 20th century 70
Poets 70
Science 65
Diaries -- 20th century 63
World War, 1914-1918 55
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa 45
University of Oxford 45
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Authors 41
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Politics and Government 38
English poetry 37
Lectures and lecturing 37
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x - 15th century 37
India 36
Diaries -- 19th century 35
Nigeria -- Officials and employees 35
World War, 1939-1945 35
Children's literature -- 20th century 34
Parishes -- England 33
Poetry -- 20th century 32
Theology 32
Universities and colleges 32
Africa 31
Journalism 31
Literature -- 20th century 31
Photography 31
Science -- History -- 20th century 31
Biography 30
Novelists -- 20th century 30
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th 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
Conservative Party (Great Britain) 25
South Africa 25
Education 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 63
Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 39
Conservative Party | Conservative Central Office 36
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 21
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
Oxfam GB 14
Butterworth | George Sainton Kaye | 1885-1916 | composer and folk song collector 13
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
University of Oxford | Sir William Dunn School of Pathology x Dunn School 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
Africa Bureau | 1952-1978 5
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

The Seven Last Words, by N. Osborne. Exercise submitted for the degree of B.Mus. at the University of Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. Ex. a. 6
B.Mus. exercise: The Seven Last Words, by N. Osborne, 1970.
Extents: 30 pages
Dates: 1970

Seven letters from Clement Attlee to Hartley Shawcross

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2720, fols. 20-26
Seven letters from Clement Attlee to Hartley Shawcross, 1948-1952.
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates: 1948-1952

Seven letters to Sir Clements Robert Markham

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. e. 197, fols. 113-125
Seven letters to Sir Clements Robert Markham
Extents: 13 Leaves
Dates: 1873-1908

Seven poems written for John Wain on the occasion of his marriage

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2724, fols. 51-57
Seven poems written for John Wain on the occasion of his marriage
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates: 1947

Seven volumes of Walthambury (or Great Waltham) notes, by the Rev. Andrew Clark, 1903-5

 Collection
Seven volumes of Walthambury (or Great Waltham) notes, by the Rev. Andrew Clark, 1903-5
Extents: 0.35 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: Written in A.D. 1903-1905 by A. Clark

Shelley Manuscripts and Relics (additions)

 Collection
Literary notebooks and papers, correspondence and other papers, portraits and relics of Percy and Mary Shelley, with further materials of their family and circle, including earlier and contemporary estate documents of the Shelley family and related families, and later secondary materials.
Extents: 82 shelfmarks and 37 objects
Dates: 1577-1992 (predominantly 18th-20th cent.)

Shirley Gurner's diary of her journey to Hong Kong

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 20456
Shirley Gurner's diary of her journey to Hong Kong.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1918-1919

Short letter from [-] Aadler to Walter Garstang

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8404, fols. 1-3
Short letter from [-] Aadler to Walter Garstang.
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: 27 Sep 1922

Short-title catalogue of the English songbooks in the collection of Walter N. H. Harding

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 206
Short-title catalogue of the English songbooks in the collection of Walter N. H. Harding made in 1935.
Extents: 486 Leaves
Dates: 1935

Shrimpton's Oxford Caricatures

 Collection
Photographic reproductions of original caricatures of Oxford University life, published by Thomas Shrimpton & Son, 1868-1901.
Extents: 1.05 Linear metres (7 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1868-1901

Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures, University of Oxford, word-processed

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7030
Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures, University of Oxford, word-processed
Extents: 60 Leaves
Dates: 1993-5

Sidney Scholfield Campbell: Two works submitted for Durham University musical degrees

 Collection
Two works submitted for Durham University musical degrees, by Sidney Scholfield Campbell, 1940-1945.
Extents: 0.30 Linear metres (2 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1940-1945

Signature, photograph and lock of hair of A. C. Swinburne

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. d. 26
Signature, photograph and lock of hair of A. C. Swinburne.
Extents: 10 Leaves
Dates: c. 1837-1909

Signatures of persons receiving honorary degrees at Oxford at the Encaenia

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. f. 2
Signatures of persons receiving honorary degrees at Oxford at the Encaenia
Extents: 89 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1904

The signatures of the recipients of Honorary Degrees at Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. f. 3
The signatures of the recipients of Honorary Degrees at Oxford
Extents: 88 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1907 at Oxford

Signed copy of two sonnets by A. C. Swinburne addressed to John Nichol

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 16
Signed copy of two sonnets by A. C. Swinburne addressed to John Nichol
Extents: 1 Leaves
Dates: May 1881, 1916

Signed first edition copy of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924) with autograph letter to Mrs Baird

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 21490
Signed first edition copy of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924) with autograph letter to Mrs Baird, 1929.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1924-1929

Silver gelatine print by Henri Cartier-Bresson and associated documents

 Single Item
'Sunday on the Banks of the River Seine'; a silver gelatine print by Henri Cartier-Bresson; signed and dedicated to Dr. Hazel Rossotti, as thanks for her nomination of Cartier-Bresson for an honorary doctorate at Oxford University. Also included are the order of proceedings from the 1975 Encaenia ceremony and transcripts of the address that the university orator John G. Griffith gave to Cartier-Bresson.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1974-1975; 1938-1975

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: 'String quartet (No. 7). Op. 166. No. 1'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 455
Autograph annotated copy of 'String quartet (No. 7). Op. 166. No. 1' by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, 1 Jan 1919.
Extents: 20 pages
Dates: 1 Jan 1919

Sir Hubert Parry: 'Jerusalem', choral song for unison voices and orchestra, orchestrated by Sir Edward Elgar

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. a. 3
Sir Hubert Parry's 'Jerusalem', choral song for unison voices and orchestra, in Elgar's orchestration, 1922.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1922