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20th century 5098
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Humanities 727
Ornithology 386
Music 326
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18th century 323
Birds 307
Literature 278
21st century 248
17th century 221
English literature 156
Oxfordshire (England) 154
Music -- Manuscripts -- 20th century 151
Religion 147
Letters -- 20th century 142
Social sciences 140
English literature -- 20th century 131
Poetry 131
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
Parishes -- England -- Oxfordshire 54
Authors -- 20th century 52
Genealogy 51
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration 49
Philosophy 49
Antiquarians 46
Art 46
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa 45
University of Oxford 45
Parish churches -- England -- Oxfordshire 43
Authors 41
Manuscripts 39
Politics and Government 38
English poetry 37
Lectures and lecturing 37
Songs with piano 37
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

Sir Hugh Percy Allen: 2 songs, 1 partsong, chants, and arrangements/copies of hymn tunes

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 602
Autograph score of 2 songs, 1 partsong, chants and arrangements/copies of hymn tunes by Sir Hugh Percy Allen, early 20th cent.
Extents: 17 Leaves
Dates: early 20th cent.

Sir Jack Allan Westrup: 'Music to Aeschylus' "Oresteia" (Trevelyan's translation), composed for the performance by the Balliol Players'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 624
Autograph vocal score of music to Aeschylus' Oresteia by Sir Jack Allan Westrup, 1924.
Extents: 76 pages
Dates: 1924

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett: 'Theme and variations for violin and viola'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 566
Autograph score of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's 'Theme and variations for violin and viola', Jun 1952.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: Jun 1952

Sir William Denis Battershill Photographic Collection

 Collection
Sir William Denis Battershill photographic collection
Extents: 0.22 linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1914-1959

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology: Historical Papers

 Collection
Academic, working, and social correspondence, papers, photographs and audio-visual materials from the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford, including materials relating to the development of the antibiotic penicillin in the Dunn School in the 1940s.
Extents: 6.0 Linear metres (113 physical shelfmarks; 68 digital shelfmarks)
Dates: 1893-2014

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology: Oral Histories

 Collection
Oral history interviews conducted with 21 scientists, administrators and technicians associated with the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford.
Extents: 21 items (21 digital shelfmarks)
Dates: 2018

Six letters from John le Carré to Mrs Chris Boot

 Single Item
Six letters from John le Carré to Mrs Chris Boot, 1992-2019.
Extents: 12 Leaves
Dates: 1992-2019

Six letters from John Masefield to Barbara Evans née Hay-Cooper

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Misc. 6, fols. 17-27
Six letters from John Masefield to Barbara Evans née Hay-Cooper, c.1930-1958.
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: c.1930-1958

Six letters to Frank Hardie from V.K. Krishna Menon, Hugh Gaitskell and Michael Stewart

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 469, fols. 17-22
Six letters to Frank Hardie from V.K. Krishna Menon, Hugh Gaitskell and Michael Stewart.
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates: 1933-1951, n.d.

Six miscellaneous letters

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 570, fols. 172-180
Six miscellaneous letters
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates: 1862-1972

Sketch-books of Henry Wallis

 Collection
Twenty-one sketch-books of Henry Wallis, 1869-1910
Extents: 3.15 Linear metres (21 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1869-1910

Sketches and watercolours by Abel Chapman

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 15569
Sketches and watercolours by Abel Chapman (1851-1929), naturalist and hunter
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1861, 1871-1886, 1953, 1959

Sketches of James T. Irvine

 Collection
Sketches of James T. Irvine
Extents: 0.73 Linear metres (11 boxes)
Dates: 1877-1900

Sketches, Photographs and Diaries of Mrs. E.C. Packard

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.r.211
Diaries (February-June 1904) of a young housekeeper in Freetown, Sierra Leone (2 volumes), with 2 volumes of water colour sketches (mainly sketches of flowers) and an album of photographs, relating to Sierra Leone.
Extents: 5 Volumes
Dates: 1904-[1915?]

Skylab photographs

 Collection
Photographs of the Skylab mission in 1973 taken by Captain Joseph Kerwin.
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (3 physical containers)
Dates: May-Jun 1973

Slave freedom certificate from German East Africa

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2529
Slave freedom certificate from German East Africa
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 13 Dec 1906

Slides of East Africa scenery, people, etc. belonging to Phoebe Somers

 Collection
Slides of East African scenery, people, schools, animals and places.
Extents: 3 boxes
Dates: 1950-1969

Slides of parish of Goosey, Berkshire

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Film 1672
Slides of parish of Goosey, Berkshire
Extents: 1 box (82 slides)
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

Slip-index of manuscripts of Latin classical authors, compiled by Roger Mynors

 Collection
Slip-index of manuscripts of Latin classical authors, compiled by Roger Mynors
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: late 20th cent.

A small group of letters addressed to Clara Deneke

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8418, fols. 78-89
A small group of letters addressed to Clara Deneke (1847-1933), 1888-1902, n.d.
Extents: 12 Leaves
Dates: 1888-1902, n.d.