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Spanish pieces, chiefly biographical

Spanish pieces, chiefly biographical, written in the 17th century
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 158
Extents: 442 pages
Dates: written in the 17th century
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Talk by Colin Franklin about his sister Rosalind Franklin

A talk by Colin Franklin about his sister Rosalind Franklin.
Shelfmark: MS. 23762
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.2010-2015
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A transcript by Edmond Malone of the greater part of Aubrey's Lives of Celebrated Men

A transcript by Edmond Malone of the greater part of Aubrey's Lives of Celebrated Men
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: Begun in 1792 by E. Malone
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Transcript by F. C. Brooke, 19th century, from a copy made by Seymour Kirkup in 1844 of the anonymous 'Storia di Beatrice Cenci'

Transcript by F. C. Brooke, 19th century, from a copy made by Seymour Kirkup in 1844 of the anonymous 'Storia di Beatrice Cenci' (1577-1999).
Shelfmark: MS. Ital. d. 27
Extents: 100 pages
Dates: 19th century
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Translations by Sir James Douie

Translations by Sir James Douie
Extents: 0.60 Linear metres (12 boxes)
Dates: Late 19th-early 20th cent.
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A type-written copy of a biography of 'Dr. John Fell, Dean and Bishop'

A type-written copy of a biography of 'Dr. John Fell, Dean and Bishop'
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon c. 198
Extents: 1 item
Dates: c. 1914
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Typescript account, illustrated with photographs, of Sir Thomas Herbert, and his house in York

Typescript account, illustrated with photographs, of Sir Thomas Herbert (1606-1682), and his house in York, by F. W. B. York, 1953.
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Yorks. d. 14
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: 1953
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Typescript article by J. M. G. Blakiston, 'Sir Thomas Phillipps and Winchester College. A might-have-been'

Typescript article by J. M. G. Blakiston, 'Sir Thomas Phillipps and Winchester College. A might-have-been'
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 914
Extents: 76 Leaves
Dates: 1975
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Typescript biographical dictionary of Hampshire recusants during the reign of Elizabeth I, by Agnes Mott

Typescript biographical dictionary of Hampshire recusants during the reign of Elizabeth I, by Agnes Mott, 1934.
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Hants. d. 6
Extents: 525 Leaves
Dates: 1934
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Typescript biography of Richard Sharp (1759-1835) by Nina L. Kay-Shuttleworth, entitled '"Conversation" Sharp and his friends'

Typescript biography of Richard Sharp (1759-1835) by Nina L. Kay-Shuttleworth, entitled '"Conversation" Sharp and his friends'
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 464
Extents: 248 Leaves
Dates: n.d.
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Typescript biography of W. G. Peck (1883-1962), priest and Christian sociologist, by N. F. Barnes

Typescript biography of W. G. Peck (1883-1962), priest and Christian sociologist, by N. F. Barnes
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 537
Extents: 145 Leaves
Dates: 1973
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Typescript by J.M. Ainley

Typescript by J.M. Ainley entitled "Resettlement of Suspected Mau Mau Sympathisers in Tanganyika: an Agriculturalist's involvement".
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2217
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: [1996?]
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Typescript draft of a biography of Ernest Walker by Margaret Deneke

Typescript draft of a biography of Ernest Walker by Margaret Deneke with related items, 1936-1965.
Shelfmark: MS. 6295
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1936, 1946, 1950-1951, 1965
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Typescript memoirs of G. E. Shrimpton, a London solicitor brought up in Thame, Oxon., entitled 'Memories of a mediocrity'

Typescript memoirs of G. E. Shrimpton, a London solicitor brought up in Thame, Oxon., entitled 'Memories of a mediocrity'
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 496
Extents: 293 Leaves
Dates: 1958
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Typescript play about Sir Walter Raleigh, entitled 'The Flag', by W. L. M. Lee

Typescript play about Sir Walter Raleigh, entitled 'The Flag', by W. L. M. Lee
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 77
Extents: 47 Leaves
Dates: Before 1955
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Volume containing biographies and engraved portraits of all the members of the college of cardinals in 1729, with annotations to 1743

Volume containing biographies and engraved portraits of all the members of the college of cardinals in 1729, with annotations to 1743.
Shelfmark: MS. French c. 36
Extents: 174 Leaves
Dates: 1729-1743
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Working papers of Donald Gillies, biographer of Archibald Clark Kerr, Baron Inverchapel

Working papers of Donald Gillies for his biography of Archibald Clark Kerr, Baron Inverchapel.
Extents: 0.88 Linear metres (8 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1989-1994

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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
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Authors 1
Autobiographies -- Zambia 1
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Berkshire (England) 1
Berlin (Germany) -- Intellectual life 1
Biography -- 18th century 1
Botanists -- Africa, East -- Biography 1
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Buddhism 1
Canada -- History -- 1763-1867 1
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China 1
Cholera -- Jamaica 1
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Civil service 1
Civil service -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Biography 1
Civil service -- Tanganyika -- Colonies 1
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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
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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
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
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
Jónsson | Eyjólfur | 1670-1745 | priest and chronicler 1
Kelly | W.F.P. | b 1912 | colonial administrator 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