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20th century 5091
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Humanities 716
Ornithology 386
Letters 325
Music 325
18th century 323
Birds 307
Literature 278
21st century 247
17th century 221
English literature 154
Oxfordshire (England) 154
Music -- Manuscripts -- 20th century 151
Religion 147
Letters -- 20th century 142
Social sciences 132
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
Photographs 96
Composers -- England -- Manuscripts 94
History 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
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

Unpublished typescript biography of Arthur Moore, by Keith Haines

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6396
Unpublished typescript biography of Arthur Moore, by Keith Haines.
Extents: 353 pages
Dates: 1998

Unpublished Works on Theology by William Edwin Orchard

 Collection
Unpublished Works on Theology by William Edwin Orchard.
Extents: 0.30 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: [c. 1940-1950]

Untitled holograph manuscript by C.S. Lewis

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Dep. d. 826
Untitled holograph manuscript by Clive Staples Lewis, writer and scholar, beginning 'I have been asked to write on Christian re-union'
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: n.d. [c.1942-1944]

'Variations by Norman Cocker on a given theme by G. C. Gardner' for 2 pianos

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 641
Variations for 2 pianos by Norman Cocker on a given theme by G. C. Gardner, [c 1930s?].
Extents: 20 Leaves
Dates: [c 1930?]

Various documents

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 37
Various documents
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 19th-20th century

'Venetian Scene', a poem by Anne Ridler

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8394, fols. 58-60
'Venetian Scene', a poem by Anne Ridler.
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: Aug 1975-Mar 1989

Verse by A. A. Piggot

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 154
Verse by A. A. Piggot (1891-1915), nearly all published in Poems (London, 1920).
Extents: 29 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

Verse by A. W. Pollard, 1879-1917, with (fols. 19-20) copy of verse by R. L. Stevenson, 1882

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 50
Verse by A. W. Pollard, 1879-1917, with (fols. 19-20) copy of verse by R. L. Stevenson, 1882.
Extents: 77 Leaves
Dates: 1879-1917

Verse by H.M. Margoliouth

 Collection
Verse by H.M. Margoliouth.
Extents: 0.21 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 20th cent.

Verse by 'Miles Christian Armiger' entitled 'Old music'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 42
Verse by 'Miles Christian Armiger' entitled 'Old music'
Extents: 81 Leaves
Dates: Early 20th century

VHS tape recording Happy Birthday Barbara: Baroness Castle of Blackburn at 85, A Commemorative Video Celebrating the Birthday of One of the Twentieth Century's Most Outstanding Parliamentarians, Oct. 1995

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3949
VHS tape recording Happy Birthday Barbara: Baroness Castle of Blackburn at 85, A Commemorative Video Celebrating the Birthday of One of the Twentieth Century's Most Outstanding Parliamentarians, Oct. 1995
Extents: 1 item
Dates: Oct. 1995

Victor Hely-Hutchinson: String quartet in E flat (parts)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 567
Autograph copy of parts of the String quartet in E flat by Victor Hely-Hutchinson, [1940].
Extents: 42 Leaves
Dates: [1940]

Video cassettes donated by Trevor Hearl concerning St. Helena, Tristan de Cunha, and Accession Island

 Collection
Video cassettes concerning St Helena, Tristan de Cunha, and Accession Island.
Extents: 0.89 linear metres (10 boxes)
Dates: 1955-1998

Violet Milner Papers

 Collection
The collection consists mainly of the papers of Violet Milner, but includes estate papers, family papers, correspondence, and other papers of Frederick Augustus Maxse, the Maxse family, Lord Edward Herbert Gascoyne-Cecil, and Alfred Milner. It contains material relating to 19th- and 20th-century British and Imperial history, in particular the Boer War. The coverage of 20th-century South African politics is notable. Most major British politicians and political events of this period are...
Extents: 85 shelfmarks
Dates: 1833-1958

Visitors' book of R. H. Dundas at Christ Church

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. e. 382
Visitors' book of R. H. Dundas at Christ Church
Extents: 147 Leaves
Dates: 1911-1960

Visitors' book of Sir Walter Durnford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. d. 31
Visitors' book of Sir Walter Durnford, 1899-1942.
Extents: 177 Leaves
Dates: 1899-1925

Visitors' book of the Mitre Hotel, Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 677
Visitors' book of the Mitre Hotel, Oxford, 1941-1957.
Extents: 194 Leaves
Dates: 1941-1957

Vocal score of 'A choral fantasia' by Gustav Holst to words by Robert Bridges, published, London

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 21
Vocal score of 'A choral fantasia' by Gustav Holst to words by Robert Bridges, published, London, 1931
Extents: 24 Leaves
Dates: 1931

Volume belonging to Thomas Ground containing papers relating to Robert Fisher Tomes and the birds of Worcestershire

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 15430
Volume belonging to Thomas Ground containing papers relating to Robert Fisher Tomes and the birds of Worcestershire.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1895, 1914-1917, 1949

Volume containing minutes and accounts of the Oxford cab-drivers' benefit club

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. c. 530
Volume containing minutes, 1904-1912, and accounts, 1905-1915, of the Oxford cab-drivers' benefit club
Extents: 69 Leaves
Dates: 1904-1915