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History 93
Oxford (England) 89
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India 36
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Nigeria -- Officials and employees 35
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Parishes -- England 33
Poetry -- 20th century 32
Theology 32
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Africa 31
Literature -- 20th century 31
Biography 30
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Science -- History -- 20th century 30
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Medicine 27
Philosophy -- 20th century 27
Bodleian Library 26
Novelists -- 19th century 26
Poems 26
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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 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
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

Addresses and testimonials addressed to Sir Ernest Birch

 Collection
Addresses and testimonials of appreciation addressed to Ernest Birch (and one to his wife) by groups in Malaya, some in local languages, 1892-1907. Also, photographs of J.W.W. Birch, Sir William Jervois, Sir Frank Swettenham and other Malayan groups and scenes, ca.1870-1920.
Extents: 2 boxes, 2 framed items
Dates: [ca. 1870]-1920

Addresses delivered at annual general meetings of the Friends of the Bodleian

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 18
Addresses delivered at annual general meetings of the Friends of the Bodleian, 1930-1, 1933-6, 1938, 1945
Extents: 86 Leaves
Dates: 1945

Addresses of welcome presented to Sir John Valentine W. Shaw

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. t. 3
Addresses of welcome presented to Shaw on his assumption of office as Governor of Trinidad.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1947

Addresses, speeches and broadcasts delivered by William Malcolm Hailey, 1st Baron Hailey

 Collection
Typescript and manuscript addresses, speeches and broadcasts delivered by Hailey, with related papers (letters, news cuttings and printed articles).
Extents: 7 Volumes
Dates: 1912-1958

Administration of Law in British Africa Conference

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2218
Papers presented at the conference, 1980.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1980

Admission register of Daly College, Indore, India

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 564
Admission register of Daly College, Indore, India
Extents: 103 Leaves
Dates: 1870-1926

Affirmation of R.H.W. Reece

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Ind. Ocn. s. 361
Affirmation made by Professor R.H.W. Reece in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong relating to political developments in North Borneo and Sarawak from 1946 onwards, an expert opinion in the case of Dr. Jeffrey Datuk Kitingan and the Crown Solicitor, in which Dr. Kitingan was alleged to have been involved in a secessionist plot in Sabah (North Borneo), 1993.
Extents: 59 ff.
Dates: 1993

African Voyage Album

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2325
Album of postcards, photographs and other souvenirs of a journey from Port Elizabeth to London via the east coast of Africa and the Suez Canal. Includes views of Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, Lourenco Marques, Beira, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Aden, Port Sudan, Naples, Pompeii, Marseilles, Paris and London, with, at the end, pictures of Harrogate, York, Madeira, Cape Town, Victoria Falls and Kimberley, [20th century].
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 20th century

After Blake's illustrations to the book of Job, septet by M. Hinton. Exercise submitted for the degree of B.Mus. at the University of Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. Ex. b. 84
B.Mus. exercise: After Blake's illustrations to the book of Job, septet by M. Hinton, 1971.
Extents: 64 pages
Dates: 1971

Agreements to purchase prospecting and mining rights in Winburg, South Africa

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1661
Agreements to purchase prospecting rights and mining rights at Bluegum Farm, Winburg, Orange River Colony, South Africa.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1902

A.K. Chesterton, 'Leopard Valley', unpublished play

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1276
A.K. Chesterton, 'Leopard Valley', unpublished play
Extents: 80 Leaves
Dates: [1944]

Alan Davidson, 'Roman Catholicism in Oxfordshire from the Late Elizabethan Period to the Civil War (c.1580-1640)'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 602
Alan Davidson, 'Roman Catholicism in Oxfordshire from the Late Elizabethan Period to the Civil War (c.1580-1640)', typescript Ph.D. thesis, Bristol, 1970.
Extents: 770 Leaves
Dates: 1970

Albert Anthony Visetti: 'Danse chantée (on an old Venetian theme of the 16th century)'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 458
'Danse chantée (on an old Venetian theme of the 16th century)' by Albert Anthony Visetti, [c 1920?].
Extents: 31 pages
Dates: [c.1920?]

Album compiled by Falconer Madan, relating to the discovery of 16th cent. wall-paintings at 3, Cornmarket, Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3604
Album compiled by Falconer Madan, relating to the discovery of 16th cent. wall-paintings at 3, Cornmarket, Oxford
Extents: 41 Leaves
Dates: 1927-33

Album containing photographs of war scenes

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 116
Album containing photographs of war scenes
Extents: 22 Leaves
Dates: c. 10-13 October 1918

Album containing sixty-five photographs of views in the island of St. Helena

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Drawings gen. d. 9
Album containing sixty-five photographs of views in the island of St. Helena
Extents: 32 Leaves
Dates: Jan.-Feb. 1914

Album of autographs compiled by R.T. Wragg, interleaved with several letters and a newspaper cutting

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. d. 46
Album of autographs compiled by R.T. Wragg, interleaved with several letters and a newspaper cutting
Extents: 312 Leaves
Dates: 1851-1914

Album of genealogical tables of ruling families of Europe and the Middle East compiled by Reginald Edgar Berkeley Maxse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. a. 10
Album of genealogical tables of ruling families of Europe and the Middle East compiled by Reginald Edgar Berkeley Maxse, c. 1935.
Extents: 172 Leaves
Dates: c. 1935

Album of 'Howth Sea Weeds'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 21517
Album of 'Howth Sea Weeds'.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1857 and 1982

Album of jobbing printing by the Perpetua Press belonging to Vivian Ridler

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 12264
A scrapbook album containing ephemera printed by Vivian Ridler's Perpetua Press.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1931-1955