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Zimbabwe -- History -- 1890-1965 2
Academic writing 1
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Africa, East -- Biography -- 20th century 1
Africa, Southern -- Biography 1
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Austen -- Jane -- 1775-1817 1
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Authors 1
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Autobiographies -- Zambia 1
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Berlin (Germany) -- Intellectual life 1
Biography -- 18th century 1
Biography -- 21st century 1
Botanists -- Africa, East -- Biography 1
Brunei -- History -- 20th century 1
Buddhism 1
Canada -- History -- 1763-1867 1
Caricatures and cartoons -- England -- Oxford 1
Catholicism 1
China 1
Cholera -- Jamaica 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

Memoirs of Yvonne Fox

 Collection
The Years Between, a typescript memoir dealing with her family, social and religious life, and with her later work as a teacher training college lecturer, covering the period 1945-1960; Bawku, carbon copy of a typescript memoir relating to period in the Gold Coast from 1939.
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates: [c1939-1960]

Memorial of the life and character of John Shute Duncan by his brother Philip Bury Duncan

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. e. 697
Memorial of the life and character of John Shute Duncan by his brother Philip Bury Duncan
Extents: 97 Leaves
Dates: 1844-1845

'Memorialls & Remaines containing the Life & Death of my deare Sonne John Freind...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon f. 31
'Memorialls & Remaines containing the Life & Death of my deare Sonne John Freind...'
Extents: 372 pages
Dates: Written about 1675-1678 by Nathaniel Freind

Microfilm of Eton College MS. 167

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Film 1156
Microfilm of Eton College MS. 167: Life of Sir Thomas More
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1500 - 1599

Microfilm of the papers of the Codrington family

 Collection
Microfilm of the papers of the Codrington Family.
Extents: 0.66 linear metres (15 boxes)
Dates: 1700-1869

Miscellaneous 'Scraps' in English

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 4
Miscellaneous 'Scraps' in English
Extents: 64 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 16th-19th century

Notebooks of Alexander Chalmers

 Collection
Notebooks of Alexander Chalmers, containing literary references for the lives of well-known persons.
Extents: 1.20 Linear metres (24 boxes)
Dates: 1810

Notes made by Ann Thwaite while compiling My Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7556, fols. 116-124
Notes made by Ann Thwaite while compiling My Oxford
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates: 1976-1977

Notes of a perambulation of Oxford by an artist

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon c. 33
Notes of a perambulation of Oxford by an artist, written in A.D. 1785.
Extents: 55 Leaves
Dates: written in A.D. 1785

'Nouvelle Mnémonique appliquée à l'Histoire d'Angleterre. Pour faire suite à l'histoire de France d'après la même méthode par Mme *** [Laure de Saint-Ouen]

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Vet. E6 c.26/1
A manuscript fair copy of an educational tool which seems to have been eventually published as Tome I of Saint-Ouen's Tableaux historiques des peuples modernes européans, composés de médaillons, etc, accompagné d'un text explicatif (Paris: J. Carez, 1825). Here it accompanies a set of plates used for the publication.
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates: [c.1823-1824]

'Of Robert Devereux Earle of Essex & George Villiers Duke of Buckingham. Some Observations by way of paralell ...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 104
'Of Robert Devereux Earle of Essex & George Villiers Duke of Buckingham. Some Observations by way of paralell ...', written in about the middle of the 17th century.
Extents: 45 Leaves
Dates: written in about the middle of the 17th century

Paper on Gladstone at the Colonial Office, 1846

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 543
Paper entitled Gladstone at the Colonial Office, 1846, by Professor Alan Shaw of Monash University, presented at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Australian Studies Centre, 1986.
Extents: 16 ff.
Dates: 1986

Papers of A.F. Gray

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2322
Typescript memoirs of A.F. Gray detailing his work as a Meteorological Officer in Northern Rhodesia / Zambia from 1951 to 1971.
Extents: 2 ff.
Dates: 1999

Papers of Basil Henry F. and H. John Barnard

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Ind. Ocn. s. 268
Albums of captioned photographs, with local newspapers, depicting the work of Basil Henry F. Barnard in the Malayan Forestry Service, and of H. John Barnard in the Malayan Police, 1901-1948.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1901-1948

Papers of Boyd Alexander relating to William Beckford

 Collection
Papers of Boyd Alexander (1913-1980), publisher of works on William Beckford (1760-1844), author, MP and art collector.
Extents: 4.6 Linear metres (46 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 19th-20th century

Papers of Charles Richard M. O'Brien

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Micr. Afr. 431
Copies of letters, in diary form, 1900-1902, including regimental experiences, South African War, January-June 1900, as President of the Military Tribunal in Johannesburg, June 1900-April 1901, the Johannesburg Civil Police, May 1901- May 1902; with illustrations, photographs and press cuttings.
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1900-1902

Papers of Frank Thomas Russell

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1939
Detailed memoirs of service, 1930-1973.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1930-1973

Papers of Geoffrey H.S. Wood

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 556
Letters and press cuttings from and about Wood, 1952-1957.
Extents: 1 folder
Dates: 1952-1957

Papers of Henry William Carless Davis, mainly relating to his work as editor of the Dictionary of National Biography

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7042
Papers of Henry William Carless Davis, mainly relating to his work as editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
Extents: 177 Leaves
Dates: 1904-1960

Papers of J. R. Granville Bantock

 Collection
Letters home, diaries, reports, photographs and press cuttings relating to service in the Ceylon Police Force, 1920-1939.
Extents: 3 boxes, 1 volume
Dates: 1920-1939