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Historical fiction, English 2
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Academic writing 1
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Aden -- History -- 20th century 1
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Afghanistan 1
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Africa, Southern -- Biography 1
Agriculturalists -- Tanganyika -- Biography 1
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Antiquities 1
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Austen -- Jane -- 1775-1817 1
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Authors 1
Autobiographies -- Zambia 1
Barbados -- History -- 20th century 1
Berlin (Germany) -- Intellectual life 1
Biography -- 18th century 1
Biography -- 20th century 1
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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
Church of England -- Bishops 1
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Church of England -- clergy 1
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Civil service -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Biography 1
Civil service -- Tanganyika -- Colonies 1
Clergy -- England -- Biography 1
Colonial administrators -- Malawi -- Biography 1
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Colonial administrators' wives -- Solomon Islands -- Biography 1
Composers -- Biography 1
Composers -- Correspondence 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
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

Papers of John William Ferris

 Collection
Nothing to Declare, the story of his service in the Royal Air Force and as Executive Officer in Hong Kong, 1947-1967; Semper Paratus, the story of his service in the Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force; On the Record, a volume of Hong Kong press cuttings, etc.
Extents: 1 volume, 1 box
Dates: [1947-1967]

Papers of Lieut.-Colonel Basil Maurice de Quehen

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2219
Notes by de Quehen on his early life in the Channel Islands, South Africa and Rhodesia; article by de Quehen about his experiences in the Middle East; photocopy of a letter to Mary Rixon (later Mrs. de Quehen) about Muyenyezi and the part he played in leading the British columns in the Ndebele campaign.
Extents: 1 folder
Dates: 1997, 20th century

Papers of Major-General Stephen Seymour Butler

 Collection
Typescript memoirs of service in the South African War, East Africa, Arabia, Egypt, North India, Sudan, etc., with photographs, sketches, postcards, letters, etc., 1899-1943.
Extents: 3 Volumes
Dates: 1899-1943

Papers of Mary Marquand

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Pac. s. 99
Photocopied typescript and manuscript of Him now; a Solomon Islands honeymoon, reminiscences of life as the wife of a colonial officer, 1946, with part of a re-write, 1949-1950.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1946-1950

Papers of Michael Francis Strachan, relating to his work, Esmond de Beer: scholar and benefactor: a personal memoir (Norwich, 1995)

 Collection
Papers of Michael Francis Strachan, relating to his work, Esmond de Beer: scholar and benefactor: a personal memoir (Norwich, 1995)
Extents: 157.0 Leaves
Dates: 1960-1996

Papers of Mike Bevan

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Ind. Ocn. s. 359
Diary, 1941-1945, written by Bevan while interned in Stanley Camp, Hong Kong, 1940-1945 and typed up in 1965 from his notes; with copy of Sweet Waters by Lieut. John Gibson on the surrender of Hong Kong by the Japanese, [fron] Blackwood Magazine, January 1946, and press cutting on the surrender.
Extents: 22 ff.
Dates: 20th century

Papers of Patrick Brian Sweeney

 Collection
Typescript autobiography and papers relating to service as a customs officer in India, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar, Somaliland and Aden, 1933-1965.
Extents: 1 volume, 1 box
Dates: 1933-1965

Papers of Ralph N. Mann

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. W. Ind. s. 50
Letters home, 1954-1958, with correspondence relating to research into the lives of Button Gwinnett, President of Georgia and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, and of Elias Vanderhorst, British Consul in the USA (d. 1816).
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1954-1958

Papers of R.E.N. Smith

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2277
Six chapters of Smith's memoirs, c1987, relating to his probationer cadetship at Oxford, 1948-1950 and service in Nyasaland, 1950-1961; with curriculum vitae.
Extents: 58 ff.
Dates: c1987

Papers of Revd. Henry Clarke (1)

 Collection
Five volumes of The Journal of Henry Clarke, comprising a typescript version of an autobiography written by the Revd. Clarke with reference to his diaries of 1847-1897; two volumes of typed transcripts of his letters, 1855-1876; three volumes containing photocopies of his letters, 1877-1888.
Extents: 10 Volumes
Dates: 1847-1897

Papers of Robert Noel Turner

 Collection
From the depths of my memory, reminiscences of service in Malaya, Brunei, Singapore, Sarawak, Barbados and Malaysia, 1912-1976 (photocopied typescript), with texts of speeches made in Barbados.
Extents: 3 Files
Dates: [1912-1976]

Papers of W.F.P. Kelly

 Collection
Diary of travels in charge of a mobile cinema, Kenya, 1944; three volumes of memoirs of service, Kenya, 1936-1963; four volumes of travel diaries, Kenya, 1981-1982, 1989, 1992, 1996; one travel diary, South Africa, 1990; report by Miss S. Brodribb Pughe on the wells of the Northern District, Kenya, 1962.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates: 1944-[1996]

Papers relating to Cecil John Rhodes (2)

 Collection
Album of newspaper cuttings and printed material relating to the life and career of Rhodes in Southern Africa, including a biography (Miniature series) by Ada S. Frost entitled The right hon. Cecil J. Rhodes (London: 1902).
Extents: 38 ff.
Dates: 1896-1902

Photocopied typescript of the Reverend Alfred Pott's Memoir

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 6133
Photocopied typescript of the Reverend Alfred Pott's memoir.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1903-2005

A postcard of Elizabeth Jennings and an Oxford University Poetry Society performance ticket given by Ann Thwaite

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8238, fols. 104-6
A note by Ann Thwaite describing her gift of a 1958 postcard from Elizabeth Jennings a ticket for a 1953 Oxford University Poetry Society performance of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral.
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: 1953, 1958, 2016

Proof sheets of sir Theodore Martin's Life of the Prince Consort

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 56
Proof sheets of sir Theodore Martin's Life of the Prince Consort
Extents: 388 Leaves
Dates: Printed in 1874-1878

R. C. Nichols, Memoir of the late John Gough Nichols, F.S.A.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 145
R. C. Nichols, Memoir of the late John Gough Nichols, F.S.A.
Extents: 79 Leaves
Dates: c. 1874

Rambling notes, chiefly legal and biographical

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. g. 3
Rambling notes, chiefly legal and biographical
Extents: 31 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1821

'Recueil des Chansons critiques, satyriques, libres, joyeuses et grivoises', by Roger Rabutin

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 4
'Recueil des Chansons critiques, satyriques, libres, joyeuses et grivoises', by Roger Rabutin
Extents: 181 Leaves
Dates: 17th century

Reminiscences of Theodore Hook (1788-1841), by R. H. Barham

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 291
Reminiscences of Theodore Hook (1788-1841), by R. H. Barham
Extents: 44 pages
Dates: 1843