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20th century 5094
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Humanities 723
Ornithology 386
Letters 325
Music 324
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 139
Poetry 131
English literature -- 20th century 130
16th century 128
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century 124
Church records and registers 119
Correspondence 98
Local history 97
Photographs 97
History 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
Science 64
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
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
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 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
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
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
Fisher | Herbert Albert Laurens | 1865-1940 | historian and statesman 5

William Huxford (Bill) Butler, photocopy of a typescript, 'Heroes' [ The Myth of the Hero]

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8351
William Huxford (Bill) Butler, photocopy of a typescript, 'Heroes' [ The Myth of the Hero], 19 Oct 1977.
Extents: 283 Leaves
Dates: 19 Oct 1977

William Huxford (Bill) Butler, ‘Static of the Star-filled Wind: Selected Poems 1959-77’

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8236
Unamended typescript of 'Static of the Star-filled Wind: Selected Poems 1959-1977' by William Huxford (Bill) Butler.
Extents: 138 Leaves
Dates: 1959-1977

William Sommerlad: 'In an Eastern city' for theatre orchestra

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 640
Autograph conductor score and parts of William Sommerlad's 'In an Eastern city', [c 1930?].
Extents: 64 Leaves
Dates: [c 1930?]

William Walton: 'The Twelve', anthem to words by W. H. Auden

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 402
William Walton's 'The Twelve: anthem for the feast of any apostle', to words by W. H. Auden, [1965?]
Extents: 36 pages
Dates: [1965?]

Wills and related papers of Cecil John Rhodes

 Collection
Wills of Cecil John Rhodes, with some additional material, including holograph letters.
Extents: 0.08 linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1871-1903; 1946

Winburg Concentration Camp

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2347
Five photographs of Winburg Concentration Camp, Orange River Colony, South Africa, taken by Hermann Oppenheim on 15th April 1902.
Extents: 5 photographs
Dates: 1902

'Wintringham' notebook of W.H. Auden

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don d. 204
'Wintringham' notebook of W.H. Auden
Extents: 70 Leaves
Dates: 1923-c.1924

Wolfhard Nitschke, ‘”Citizen” and “Bourgeois” : A consideration of Thomas Mann’s concept of the term “Bürger” with special reference to “Buddenbrooks”’, typescript M. Litt. thesis, Strathclyde, 1980.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 733
Wolfhard Nitschke, ‘”Citizen” and “Bourgeois” : A consideration of Thomas Mann’s concept of the term “Bürger” with special reference to “Buddenbrooks”’, typescript M. Litt. thesis, Strathclyde, 1980.
Extents: 151 Leaves
Dates: 1980

'The Woods: A Gloucestershire Family' by J.C. Neville Wood

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Gloucs. e. 13
'The Woods: A Gloucestershire Family' by J.C. Neville Wood
Extents: 160 Leaves
Dates: 1981

Word processed memoir by Mary O. Abbott, titled 'An account of the experiences of a WHO [World Health Organization] nurse from 1959-1980, Part 1'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6169
Word processed memoir by Mary O. Abbott, titled 'An account of the experiences of a WHO [World Health Organization] nurse from 1959-1980, Part 1'
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1997

Word processed memoir, 'My working life' by Sir Geoffery Wilson

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6167
Word processed memoir, 'My working life' by Sir Geoffery Wilson.
Extents: 91 pages
Dates: 1958-1996

Work diary of Edgar Lobel, librarian

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 1542
Work diary of Edgar Lobel, librarian
Extents: 124 Leaves
Dates: 1931-1934

Working notebook of Louis de Bernières for Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 24257
Working notebook of Louis de Bernières for Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994), c.1993.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1993

Working notebook of Ruth Pitter containing twenty-three poems, ten of which are printed in The ermine, poems, 1942-1952 (London, 1953)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 123
Working notebook of Ruth Pitter containing twenty-three poems, ten of which are printed in The ermine, poems, 1942-1952 (London, 1953).
Extents: 79 Leaves
Dates: 1942-1952

Working notebook of the illustrator, Pauline Baynes

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 11805
Working notebook of the illustrator, Pauline Baynes, [c.2005-2008]
Extents: 368 Leaves
Dates: [c.2005-2008]

Working papers, lectures and notebooks of Sir Hamilton Gibb

 Collection
Working papers, lectures and notebooks of Sir Hamilton Gibb
Extents: 0.45 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 1920-1967

Working papers of Dame Helen Gardner Relating to her Edition of The divine poems of John Donne

 Collection
Working papers of Dame Helen Gardner Relating to her Edition of The divine poems of John Donne.
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1943-1950, n.d.

Working papers of David Ayerst for his biography of J.L. Garvin

 Collection
Undated working papers of David Ayerst (1904-1992), for his biography of J.L. Garvin, Garvin of the Observer (London & Dover, N.H., 1985). The collection contains material excluded from the published version, and some copies of original material, late 19th-early 20th cent.
Extents: 0.45 Linear metres (3 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: [1894-1947], n.d.

Working papers of Donald Gillies, biographer of Archibald Clark Kerr, Baron Inverchapel

 Collection
Working papers of Donald Gillies for his biography of Archibald Clark Kerr, Baron Inverchapel.
Extents: 0.88 Linear metres (8 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1989-1994

Working papers of Professor Gabriel Turville-Petre

 Collection
Working papers of Gabriel Turville-Petre (1908-1978), Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Vigfússon Reader at Oxford University.
Extents: 0.60 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 1935-1974