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Biography 75
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18th century 22
Literature 13
17th century 12
21st century 8
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Humanities 7
Antiquarians 5
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration 5
English literature 4
Letters 4
Composers -- England -- Biography 3
Correspondence 3
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Novelists -- 20th century 3
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Religion 3
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University of Oxford 3
Women authors, English -- 20th century 3
Berkshire (England) 2
Biography -- 17th century 2
Biography -- 19th century 2
Biography -- 20th century 2
Catholic Church 2
Dictionaries and encyclopaedias 2
Great Britain 2
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- Biography 2
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Nigeria -- Administration 2
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Officials and employees -- Biography 2
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Great Britain. Colonial Office -- Biography 2
Great Britain.Customs and Excise -- Officials and employees -- Biography 2
Historians -- 20th century 2
Historical fiction, English 2
History 2
Journalism 2
Journalists -- 20th century 2
Malaysia -- History -- 20th century 2
Music 2
Photographs 2
Playwriting -- Drama 2
Saints 2
Tanzania -- Description and travel 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
Australia -- History -- 1788-1900 1
Authors 1
Authors, English - 21st century 1
Authors, English -- 20th century 1
Autobiographies -- Zambia 1
Barbados -- History -- 20th century 1
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
Church of England -- Bishops 1
Church of England -- Clergy 1
Church of England -- clergy 1
Civil service 1
Civil service -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Biography 1
Civil service -- Tanganyika -- Colonies 1
Clergy -- England -- Biography 1
Colonial administrators -- Malawi -- Biography 1
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
Cuddesdon College 1
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

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

Roy Jenkins papers

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Roy Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead (1920-2003), politician and author, with additional papers of his father Arthur Jenkins, MP for Pontypool (1882-1946).
Extents: 100 Linear metres (607 shelfmarks)
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1940-2003; 1882-2006

Savile Collection

 Collection
Manuscript collections from the Savilian Library, 12th-19th century
Extents: 11.08 Linear metres (108 boxes)
Dates: 12th-19th century

'Seldeniana', collected by dr. David Wilkins

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 1022
'Seldeniana', collected by dr. David Wilkins, written in about 1720-1724 by D. Wilkins.
Extents: 102 Leaves
Dates: written in about 1720-1724 by D. Wilkins

Spanish pieces, chiefly biographical

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 158
Spanish pieces, chiefly biographical, written in the 17th century
Extents: 442 pages
Dates: written in the 17th century

Talk by Colin Franklin about his sister Rosalind Franklin

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23762
A talk by Colin Franklin about his sister Rosalind Franklin.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.2010-2015

A transcript by Edmond Malone of the greater part of Aubrey's Lives of Celebrated Men

 Collection
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

Transcript by F. C. Brooke, 19th century, from a copy made by Seymour Kirkup in 1844 of the anonymous 'Storia di Beatrice Cenci'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Ital. d. 27
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).
Extents: 100 pages
Dates: 19th century

Translations by Sir James Douie

 Collection
Translations by Sir James Douie
Extents: 0.60 Linear metres (12 boxes)
Dates: Late 19th-early 20th cent.

A type-written copy of a biography of 'Dr. John Fell, Dean and Bishop'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon c. 198
A type-written copy of a biography of 'Dr. John Fell, Dean and Bishop'
Extents: 1 item
Dates: c. 1914

Typescript account, illustrated with photographs, of Sir Thomas Herbert, and his house in York

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Yorks. d. 14
Typescript account, illustrated with photographs, of Sir Thomas Herbert (1606-1682), and his house in York, by F. W. B. York, 1953.
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: 1953

Typescript article by J. M. G. Blakiston, 'Sir Thomas Phillipps and Winchester College. A might-have-been'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 914
Typescript article by J. M. G. Blakiston, 'Sir Thomas Phillipps and Winchester College. A might-have-been'
Extents: 76 Leaves
Dates: 1975

Typescript biographical dictionary of Hampshire recusants during the reign of Elizabeth I, by Agnes Mott

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Hants. d. 6
Typescript biographical dictionary of Hampshire recusants during the reign of Elizabeth I, by Agnes Mott, 1934.
Extents: 525 Leaves
Dates: 1934

Typescript biography of Richard Sharp (1759-1835) by Nina L. Kay-Shuttleworth, entitled '"Conversation" Sharp and his friends'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 464
Typescript biography of Richard Sharp (1759-1835) by Nina L. Kay-Shuttleworth, entitled '"Conversation" Sharp and his friends'
Extents: 248 Leaves
Dates: n.d.

Typescript biography of W. G. Peck (1883-1962), priest and Christian sociologist, by N. F. Barnes

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

Typescript by J.M. Ainley

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2217
Typescript by J.M. Ainley entitled "Resettlement of Suspected Mau Mau Sympathisers in Tanganyika: an Agriculturalist's involvement".
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: [1996?]

Typescript draft of a biography of Ernest Walker by Margaret Deneke

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 6295
Typescript draft of a biography of Ernest Walker by Margaret Deneke with related items, 1936-1965.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1936, 1946, 1950-1951, 1965

Typescript memoirs of G. E. Shrimpton, a London solicitor brought up in Thame, Oxon., entitled 'Memories of a mediocrity'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 496
Typescript memoirs of G. E. Shrimpton, a London solicitor brought up in Thame, Oxon., entitled 'Memories of a mediocrity'
Extents: 293 Leaves
Dates: 1958

Typescript play about Sir Walter Raleigh, entitled 'The Flag', by W. L. M. Lee

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 77
Typescript play about Sir Walter Raleigh, entitled 'The Flag', by W. L. M. Lee
Extents: 47 Leaves
Dates: Before 1955

Volume containing biographies and engraved portraits of all the members of the college of cardinals in 1729, with annotations to 1743

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. French c. 36
Volume containing biographies and engraved portraits of all the members of the college of cardinals in 1729, with annotations to 1743.
Extents: 174 Leaves
Dates: 1729-1743