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Biography 74

20th century 61

19th century 34

18th century 22

17th century 12

Literature 12

16th century 7

21st century 6

Antiquarians 5

Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration 5

Letters 4

Composers -- England -- Biography 3

Correspondence 3

Diaries 3

Genealogy 3

Humanities 3

Poetry 3

Religion 3

Religious biography 3

Biography -- 17th century 2

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Biography -- 19th century 2

Catholic Church 2

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias 2

English literature 2

Great Britain 2

Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- Biography 2

Great Britain -- Colonies -- Nigeria -- Administration 2

Great Britain -- Colonies -- Officials and employees -- Biography 2

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2

Great Britain. Colonial Office -- Biography 2

Great Britain.Customs and Excise -- Officials and employees -- Biography 2

Historians -- 20th century 2

Historical fiction, English 2

Malaysia -- History -- 20th century 2

Music 2

Novelists -- 20th century 2

Photographs 2

Playwriting -- Drama 2

Saints 2

Tanzania -- Description and travel 2

University of Oxford 2

Women authors, English -- 20th century 2

Zimbabwe -- History -- 1890-1965 2

Academic writing 1

Actors 1

Aden -- History -- 20th century 1

Advocacy -- Human rights 1

Afghanistan 1

Africa 1

Africa, East -- Biography -- 20th century 1

Africa, Southern -- Biography 1

Agriculturalists -- Tanganyika -- Biography 1

Agriculture -- Kenya 1

Antigua and Barbuda -- History -- 18th century 1

Antigua and Barbuda -- History -- 19th century 1

Antiquities 1

Arabian Peninsular -- Biography -- 20th century 1

Artists 1

Astrology 1

Astronomy 1

Austen -- Jane -- 1775-1817 1

Australia -- History -- 1788-1900 1

Authors 1

Autobiographies -- Zambia 1

Barbados -- History -- 20th century 1

Berkshire (England) 1

Berlin (Germany) -- Intellectual life 1

Biography -- 18th century 1

Botanists -- Africa, East -- Biography 1

Brunei -- History -- 20th century 1

Buddhism 1

Canada -- History -- 1763-1867 1

Catholicism 1

China 1

Cholera -- Jamaica 1

Church of England -- Bishops 1

Church of England -- Clergy 1

Civil service 1

Civil service -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Biography 1

Civil service -- Tanganyika -- Colonies 1

Colonial administrators -- Malawi -- Biography 1

Colonial administrators' wives -- Great Britain -- Biography 1

Colonial administrators' wives -- Solomon Islands -- Biography 1

Composers -- Biography 1

Composers -- Correspondence 1

Composers -- Germany -- Biography 1

Composers -- Portraits 1

Composition (Music) 1

Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- South Africa -- Johannesburg 1

Developing Countries 1

Diaries -- 19th century 1

Diplomacy 1

Drawing, British 1

Edinburgh (Scotland) 1

Editors -- 20th century 1

Education -- Africa 1

Education -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century 1

Education -- Nigeria -- History 1

Egypt -- Biography -- 20th century 1

England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 1

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Indexed names

Jenkins | Margaret Elizabeth Heald | 1905-2010 | novelist and biographer 2

Lewis | John | 1675-1747 | Antiquary 2

Rhodes | Cecil John | 1853-1902 | imperialist, colonial politician and mining entrepreneur 2

Rubbra | Charles Edmund Duncan | 1901-1986 | pianist and composer 2

Thwaite | Ann Barbara | 1932 | née Harrop | biographer 2

Acworth | Harriet Garland | d 1846 | Wife of William Acworth 1

Acworth | William | 1803-1899 | Evangelical clergyman 1

Ainley | J M | b 1925 | Agricultural Officer 1

Aldhelm | c. 639-709 | Saint | Bishop of Sherborne 1

Alexander III | 356-323 BC | known as Alexander the Great | King of Macedon 1

Alexander VI | d 1503 | Pope 1

Alexander | Boyd | 1913-1980 | writer 1

Andrew | b. c.650 | Saint | of Jerusalem 1

Annan | Kofi Atta | 1938-2018 | diplomat 1

Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary and biographer 1

Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary, topographer 1

Bantock | J.R. Granville | fl 1920-1939 | colonial police officer 1

Barham | Richard Harris | 1788-1845 | Author 1

Barnard | Basil Henry F. | fl 1901-1948 | forester 1

Barnard | H. John | fl 1901-1948 | colonial police officer 1

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Barnes | N. F. | fl. 1973 1

Bartholomew | fl. 1st century | Saint 1

Beardsley | Aubrey Vincent | 1872-1898 | illustrator 1

Beckford | William Thomas | 1760-1844 | writer and art collector 1

Bede | 672/3-735 | Saint 1

Beer | Esmond Samuel | de | 1895-1990 | historical scholar and editor 1

Berkenhead | William | c.1648-1701 | Jacobite spy 1

Bevan | James | 1828-1917 | entrepreneur explorer 1

Bevan | Mike | fl 1940-1945 1

Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1

Blakiston | J. M. G | fl. 1975 1

Bowen | Elizabeth Dorothea Cole | 1899-1973 | afterwards Cameron | novelist 1

Bradley | James | 1693-1762 | Chaplain to Bishop of Hereford, astronomer 1

Bradley | Meta | fl 1879-1884 1

Brand | John | 1744-1806 | Antiquary and Historian 1

Braun | Helene Margarete Hedwig Hildburg | 1910-2004 | née Weber 1

Braun | Konrad Ernst Leonard | 1896-1969 | lawyer and judge, Quaker scholar 1

Braun | Thomas Felix Rudolf Gerhard | 1935-2008 | classicist and Dean of Merton College, Oxford 1

Brooke | F. C. | fl. 1801-1900 1

Bruce | John | 1802-1869 | Antiquary 1

Bullock | John Frederick Watkinson | 1840-1918 | Author 1

Butler | Stephen Seymour | 1880-1964 | Major-General 1

Cather | Willa | 1873-1947 | novelist and short-story writer 1

Cenci | Beatrice | 1577-1599 | noblewoman 1

Chalmers | Alexander | 1759-1834 | Writer 1

Church of England | Jamaica | Clergy | Biography 1

Clark Kerr | Archibald John Kerr | 1882-1951 | Baron Inverchapel | British diplomat 1

Clarke | Henry | 1828-1907 | Church of England clergyman and politician 1

Codrington | family | 1700-1869 | baronets | Antigua and Barbuda 1

Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 1

Collingwood | Robin George | 1889-1943 | philosopher and historian 1

Davis | Henry William Carless | 1874-1928 | historian 1

Deneke | Margaret Clara Adèle | 1882-1969 | author and musicologist 1

Devereux | Robert | 1591-1646 | third earl of Essex | parliamentarian army officer 1

Dickens | Charles John Huffam | 1812-1870 | Novelist and Journalist 1

Dictionary of National Biography | Oxford 1

Douie | James Mccrone | 1854-1933 | Sir | Knight and Colonial Administrator 1

Eckert | Robert Paul | d. 1966 | biographer 1

Eckhard | Frederic | fl. 1970s-present | spokesperson and civil servant 1

Elias | fl. 9th century | prophet 1

European Commission x Commission Européenne 1

Fell | John | 1625-1686 | Bishop of Oxford 1

Ferris | John William | 1920-1992 | airman and colonial administrator 1

Fitzgerald | Penelope Knox | 1916-2000 | Novelist 1

Forrest | Jack W. | b 1908 | colonial education officer 1

Fox | Yvonne | fl 1939-1960 | wife of S.A. Fox, colonial administrator 1

Franklin | Colin Ellis | 1923-2020 | literary editor and antiquarian bookseller 1

Freind | John | d 1673 | student of St Edmund Hall, Oxford University 1

Frost | Ada S | fl 1902 1

Germanus | Saint 1

Gilpin | Bernard | 1517-1583 | Archdeacon of Durham 1

Gladstone | William Ewart | 1809-1898 | statesman 1

Godwin | Mary Jane | 1768-1841 | formerly Clairmont | nee de Vial | translator and bookseller 1

Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 1

Godwin | family 1

Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 1

Gray | A F | b 1925 | Meteorological Officer 1

Great Britain and Northern Ireland | HM Treasury 1

Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Home Office 1

Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Liberal Democrats 1

Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Ministry of Aviation | 1964-1965 1

Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Social Democratic Party | 1981-1988 1

Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Social and Liberal Democrats | 1988-1989 1

Gwinnett | Button | [1735]-1777 | President of Georgia signatory of the American Declaration of Independence 1

Halden | Gerald | fl c1995 | biographer? 1

Halley | Edmond | 1656-1742 | Astronomer 1

Hamilton | Ian | 1938-2001 | critic, biographer and poet 1

Heaney | Leonard M. | b 1906 | colonial officer 1

Henri IV | 1553-1610 | King of France and Navarre 1

Herbert | George | 1593-1633 | Anglican clergyman and public orator 1

Herbert | Sir | Thomas | 1606-1682 | first baronet | traveller and government official 1

Hook | Theodore | 1788-1841 | Novelist 1

Hooker | Richard | 1554-1600 | theologian and philosopher 1

Huet | Pierre Daniel | 1630-1721 | French Bishop of Avranches, scholar 1

Jenkins | Arthur | 1882-1946 | politician 1

Jenkins | Dame | Mary Jennifer | née Morris | 1921-2017 | public servant 1

Jenkins | Roy Harris | Baron Jenkins of Hillhead | 1920-2003 | politician 1

Jennings | Elizabeth Joan | 1926-2001 | poet 1

John | d. A.D. 28 | Saint | the Baptist 1

Johnson | Jane | 1798-1884 | nee Cleveland | x Williams | x Hogg 1

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Language

English 104

French 9

Latin 7

Italian 4

Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 3

Chinese 1

Czech 1

Danish 1

German 1

Greek, Modern (1453-) 1

Hebrew 1

Polish 1

Portuguese 1

Spanish; Castilian 1