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Authors 1
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Berlin (Germany) -- Intellectual life 1
Biography -- 18th century 1
Biography -- 21st century 1
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Canada -- History -- 1763-1867 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

'The genealogie, life and death of ... Robert [Greville], Lord Brooke' by Thomas Spencer

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. e. 240
'The genealogie, life and death of ... Robert [Greville], Lord Brooke' by Thomas Spencer, 1644
Extents: 100 pages
Dates: 1644

The history of the life and death of John Witcliff, S.T.P . . ., with an account of his writings and opinions, collected from original MSS. and records

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. C. 979
'The history of the life and death of John Witcliff, S.T.P . . ., with an account of his writings and opinions, collected from original MSS. and records,' written by J. Lewis in A.D. 1741.
Extents: 164 Leaves
Dates: written by J. Lewis in A.D. 1741

The history of the life of the right reverend Reginald Pecock, S.T.P., Lord Bishop of St. Asaph and Chichester in the reign of K. Henry the VIth, being a sequel of the history of the life of Dr. John Wiclif etc.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. C. 413
The history of the life of the right reverend Reginald Pecock, S.T.P., Lord Bishop of St. Asaph and Chichester in the reign of K. Henry the VIth, being a sequel of the history of the life of Dr. John Wiclif [etc.]; written in the year 1725, and reviewed by John Lewis.
Extents: 205 Leaves
Dates: written in 1725 by J. Lewis

History of the Rhodes Family by Hilda Thornhill

 Collection
Manuscript entitled: "Concerning Cecil John Rhodes and his kinsfolk of olden time and some familiar places" by Hilda Thornhill, a history of the Rhodes family and of the life of Cecil John Rhodes. Included are photographs (some of which are reproductions) of Rhodes, Bishop's Stortford, the Groote Schuur estate and the Rhodes Memorial.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates: [ca. 1936]

Holograph copy of William Smyth Memoir of Mr. Sheridan (Leeds, 1840), dedicated to Miss Cotton of Madingley

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. f. 798
Holograph copy of William Smyth Memoir of Mr. Sheridan (Leeds), dedicated to Miss Cotton of Madingley
Extents: 194.0 pages
Dates: 1840

Ian Hamilton, J. D. Salinger: A Writing Life

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 131
Ian Hamilton, J. D. Salinger: A Writing Life
Extents: 358 Leaves
Dates: [1980s], n.d.

'La dissolution du Mariage d'entre Henry 4e Roy de France ... et Margueritte de France ...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. D. 34
'La dissolution du Mariage d'entre Henry 4e Roy de France ... et Margueritte de France ...'
Extents: 147 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 17th century

Letters from Elizabeth Jenkins to A.L. Rowse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 12052
Letters from Elizabeth Jenkins to A.L. Rowse, 1960-1993.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1960-1993

Letters from R.G. Collingwood

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 3337, fols. 1-41
Letters from R.G. Collingwood, 1920-1940.
Extents: 41 Leaves
Dates: 1920-1940

Letters to Alexander Nicoll, 1817-28, with a memoir of him by his brother

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. b. 7
Letters to Alexander Nicoll, 1817-28, with a memoir of him by his brother
Extents: 90 Leaves
Dates: 1817-28

The life of George Hickes, by John Lewis, with copies of related papers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 273
The life of George Hickes, by John Lewis, with copies of related papers, 1744-5.
Extents: 206 Leaves
Dates: 1744-1745.

Life of Luther in Danish, part 2

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 174
Life of Luther in Danish, part 2, written in the 18th century.
Extents: 522 pages
Dates: written in the 18th century

A Life of pope Alexander vi (d. 1503)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 130
A Life of pope Alexander vi (d. 1503)
Extents: 122 Leaves
Dates: Written in the second half of the 17th century

A Life of sir Thomas More

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 112
A Life of sir Thomas More, written in or soon after 1599.
Extents: 131 Leaves
Dates: written in or soon after 1599

Literary papers of Elizabeth Jenkins

 Collection
Literary papers of Elizabeth Jenkins, 1962-1982.
Extents: 1.2 Linear metres (8 boxes)
Dates: 1962-1982

Lives of members of the Florentine family of Strozzi by Lorenzo Strozzi

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Ital. c. 22
Lives of members of the Florentine family of Strozzi by Lorenzo Strozzi.
Extents: 102 Leaves
Dates: 18th century

Lives of the Popes from St. Peter to Innocent XI by Pietro de Sebastiani

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Ital. d. 11
Lives of the Popes from St. Peter to Innocent XI by Pietro de Sebastiani.
Extents: 130 Leaves
Dates: late 17th-early 18th century

Memoir of Teddy (Z.E.) and Dorothy Kingdon

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2255
Posted in Tanganyika, 1930-1956, typescript memoir by Teddy and Dorothy Kingdon, with photocopies of drawings.
Extents: 1 folder
Dates: [c1980-2000]

Memoirs of [eighteen] celebrated professors of the belles Letters in the Academy of Inscriptions etc. at Paris

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 372
Memoirs of [eighteen] celebrated professors of the belles Letters in the Academy of Inscriptions etc. at Paris, written in A.D. 1757 by R. Gough.
Extents: 148 pages
Dates: written in A.D. 1757 by R. Gough

Memoirs of Wilfred J. Plumbe

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2275
Typescript memoirs, c1985, entitled African Morning: Adventures in Nigeria & Sudan.
Extents: 249 pp.
Dates: c1985