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Biography -- 18th century 1
Biography -- 21st century 1
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Buddhism 1
Canada -- History -- 1763-1867 1
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China 1
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Indexed names
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary, topographer 2
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
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
Barnes | N. F. | fl. 1973 1
Bartholomew | fl. 1st century | Saint 1
Beardsley | Aubrey Vincent | 1872-1898 | illustrator 1
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, 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
Cullen | Esther | fl. 1950-1974 | animal behaviourist 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
Glendinning | Victoria | b 1937 | author and journalist 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

'Biographical sketches of the four divines who are mentioned in the Parish Priest, with a short account of its author Dr. Burton' by Dawson Warren, late 18th century

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. e. 318
'Biographical sketches of the four divines who are mentioned in the Parish Priest, with a short account of its author Dr. Burton' by Dawson Warren, late 18th century.
Extents: 52 Leaves
Dates: Late 18th century

Biographies and Family Trees by W. H. Lewis

 Collection
Biographies and Family Trees by W. H. Lewis
Extents: 0.60 Linear metres (12 boxes)
Dates: 1947-1949

Biography of Charles Townsend, poet (1789-1870), by William Twopeny

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 916
Biography of Charles Townsend, poet (1789-1870), by William Twopeny
Extents: 128 pages
Dates: c. 1789-1870

Biography of James Bevan

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2270
Typewritten biography of Bevan, written by his grandson, Gerald Halden, c1995.
Extents: 1 folder
Dates: c1995

Braun Family Archive

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Braun Family, including papers of Thomas Braun (1935-2008), classicist and Fellow and Dean of Merton College, and family history research material.
Extents: 37.0 Linear metres (221 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1685-2019

Brief accounts by Benjamin Pratt

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Berks. d. 34
Brief accounts by Benjamin Pratt, mid-19th century.
Extents: 173 Leaves
Dates: mid-19th century

'Captain William Berkenhead. The Story of a Jacobite Secret Agent in the 1690s'. Unpublished typescript by Andrew Duncan

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23769
'Captain William Berkenhead. The Story of a Jacobite Secret Agent in the 1690s'. Unpublished typescript by Andrew Duncan.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 2020

Catalogue by John Brand, begun 30 May 1792, of engraved portraits, illustrating his copy of James Granger's Biographical History

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 485
Catalogue by John Brand, begun 30 May 1792, of engraved portraits, illustrating his copy of James Granger's Biographical History
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: 1790-1792

Collections by John Bruce for his edition of The poetical works of William Cowper

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 135
Collections by John Bruce for his edition of The poetical works of William Cowper
Extents: 255 Leaves
Dates: c. 1865

'Collections for the biography of Old Actors, derived from old books & MSS., alphabetically arranged'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. e. 1
'Collections for the biography of Old Actors, derived from old books & MSS., alphabetically arranged,' written about 1840-1880 chiefly by J. Payne Collier.
Extents: 843 Leaves
Dates: written about 1840-1880 chiefly by J. Payne Collier

Collections of Sir Charles Rugge Price

 Collection
Collections of Sir Charles Rugge Price
Extents: 0.25 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1865

Copies of 'Patents and constitutions', commissions, letters patent and appointments to offices, mainly relating to the Customs and Excise, 1665-1711

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. b. 203
Copies of 'Patents and constitutions', commissions, letters patent and appointments to offices, mainly relating to the Customs and Excise, 1665-1711.
Extents: 464 pages
Dates: 1665-1711

Copy of L.B. Phillips, The dictionary of biographical reference (London, 1871)

 Collection
Copy of L.B. Phillips, The dictionary of biographical reference (London, 1871)
Extents: 0.15 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 1871

Correspondence of Leonard Heaney

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2271
Typescript transcription of letters written by Heaney from Tanganyika to his parents in England, compiled under the title Letters and Notes from Tanganyika 1929-1943.
Extents: 141 pages
Dates: 1929-1943

Drawings of Norman O'Neill by Aubrey Beardsley

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 16112
Drawings of Norman O'Neill by Aubrey Beardsley.
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: c.1893

Esther Cullen's drawings of Niko Tinbergen through his life

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22072
Esther Cullen's drawings of Niko Tinbergen through his life.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1974

Extracts from medieval manuscripts relating to early English history, copied in the second half of the 17th cent., partly from earlier 17th-cent. collections

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. c. 52
Extracts from medieval manuscripts relating to early English history, copied in the second half of the 17th century, partly from earlier 17th-cent. collections.
Extents: 325 Leaves
Dates: second half of the 17th century

Fair copy of 'Memoir of Crispin. A fragment. By a late celebrated biographer', Edinburgh

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 597
Fair copy of 'Memoir of Crispin. A fragment. By a late celebrated biographer', Edinburgh
Extents: 45 Leaves
Dates: 1813

Five foolscap notebooks containing Theresa Whistler's notes for her biography of Walter de la Mare, Imagination of the Heart (London, 1993)

 Collection
Five foolscap notebooks of Theresa Whistler, children's author and biographer of Walter de la Mare. The notebooks contain notes for her biography of de la Mare, Imagination of the Heart (London, 1993).
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (5 shelfmarks)
Dates: n.d. [c. 1993]

Four fragments from a Greek menology

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Gr. liturg. c. 4
Four fragments from a Greek menology, 16th century.
Extents: 52 Leaves
Dates: 16th century