Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts

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20th century 1337

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x - 15th century 49

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World War, 1914-1918 22

Law 21

Lectures and lecturing 21

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Science -- History -- 20th century 21

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century 20

Piano music 20

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Berkshire (England) 19

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Africa 18

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Diplomatic and consular service -- British 18

Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 18

Greek literature 18

Libraries 18

Bodleian Library 17

Buckingham (England) 17

English poetry -- 20th century 17

Essays 17

Oxford | Oxfordshire | SP 5106 17

Deeds -- England 16

Education, Higher -- Tanzania 16

Great Britain -- History 16

Kent (England) 16

Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 16

Songs with piano 16

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Indexed names

Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service 53

University of Oxford 42

Fisher | Sir | Ronald Aylmer | 1890-1962 | Knight | statistician and geneticist 22

Phillipps | Sir | Thomas | 1792-1872 | Baronet | Antiquary, and Collector of MSS and Books 22

Rhodes | Cecil John | 1853-1902 | imperialist, colonial politician and mining entrepreneur 22

Berlin | Sir | Isaiah | 1909-1997 | Knight | historian and philosopher 21

Boyce | William | 1710-1779 | musician 19

Jenkins | John | 1592-1678 | composer 18

Conservative Party 17

Doll | Sir | William Richard Shaboe | 1912-2005 | Knight | epidemiologist and cancer researcher 17

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Gielgud | Sir | Arthur John | 1904-2000 | Knight | actor and theatre director 16

Lowe | Edward | 1610-1682 | composer, music copyist, organist and writer on music 16

Olivier | Sir | Laurence Kerr | 1907-1989 | Baron Olivier | actor and director 16

Purcell | Henry | c 1659-1695 | composer 16

University of Dar es Salaam 15

Masahor | d 1890 | Sharif | opponent of Brooke rule in Sarawak also known as Musahor/Musahore 13

Wilberforce | William | 1759-1833 | MP, Philanthropist 13

Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 12

Dugdale | Sir | William | 1605-1686 | Knight | antiquary and herald 12

Gladstone | William Ewart | 1809-1898 | statesman 12

Lawes | William | 1602-1645 | musician and composer 12

Madden | Sir | Frederic | 1801-1873 | Knight | antiquary and palaeographer 12

Simpson | Christopher | c 1602/1606-1669 | composer 12

Strong | Sir | Roy Colin | b.1935 | Knight | art historian and broadcaster 12

Talbot | William Henry Fox | 1800-1877 | MP, pioneer of photography 12

Stukeley | William | 1687-1765 | antiquary and natural philosopher 11

Twining | William | 1934-2025 | professor of Law 11

University of East Africa -- Administration 11

University of Ghana 11

Ayer | Sir | Alfred Jules | 1910-1989 | Knight | philosopher 10

Bodleian Library 10

Gilpin | William | 1724-1804 | Clergyman, educationist, biographer and topographer 10

Asquith | Herbert Henry | 1852-1928 | 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith | statesman 9

Bennett | Sir | William Sterndale | 1816–1875 | Knight | composer 9

Blow | John | 1648-1708 | composer 9

Bryce | James | 1838-1922 | 1st Viscount Bryce | British diplomat and politician 9

Finzi | Gerald Raphael | 1901-1956 | composer 9

Gibbons | Orlando | 1583-1625 | composer 9

Hailey | William Malcolm | 1872-1969 | 1st Baron Hailey 9

Handel | George Frederick | 1685-1759 | musical composer 9

Medawar | Sir | Peter Brian | 1915-1987 | Knight | medical scientist 9

Sadler | Sir | Michael Ernest | 1861-1943 | Knight | educational pioneer and art patron 9

Villiers | George William Frederick | 1800-1870 | 4th Earl of Clarendon | statesman 9

Bodley | Sir | Thomas | 1545-1613 | Knight | diplomat, scholar, and founder of the Bodleian Library 8

British Association for the Advancement of Science 8

Buckland | William | 1784-1856 | Dean of Westminster, geologist 8

Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 8

Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 8

Macray | William Dunn | 1826-1916 | Rector of Ducklington, Antiquary, and Archivist 8

Robertson | William Scott | fl 1957-1967 | university administrator and lecturer in Divinity 8

Ruskin | John | 1819-1900 | author, artist, and social reformer 8

Savile | Sir | Henry | 1549-1622 | knight | mathematician 8

Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 8

Sherard | James | 1666-1738 | apothecary, botanist and amateur musician 8

Stoker | Sir | Michael George Parke | 1918-2013 | Knight | virologist 8

Anderson | Ava | 1896-1974 | née Bodley | wife of Viscount Waverley 7

Asquith | Margaret Emma Alice | 1864-1945 | née Tennant | Countess of Oxford and Asquith | political hostess and diarist 7

Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 7

Byrd | William | c 1540-1623 | musical composer 7

Charles I | 1600-1649 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 7

Croft | William | 1677-1727 | organist and composer 7

Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 7

Firth | Sir | Charles Harding | 1857-1936 | Knight | historian 7

Frith | Francis | 1822-1898 | photographer 7

Heath | Sir | Edward Richard George | 1916-2005 | Knight | prime minister 7

Hodgkin | Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | 1910-1994 | nee Crowfoot | chemist 7

Hyde | Edward | 1609-1674 | 1st Earl of Clarendon | Lord Chancellor 7

Lugard | Frederick John Dealtry | 1858-1945 | Baron Lugard of Abinger | colonial administrator, soldier and author 7

Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 7

Mayer | Sir | Robert | 1879-1985 | philanthropist and businessman 7

Ouseley | Sir | Frederick Arthur Gore | 1825–1889 | 2nd Baronet | Professor of Music at Oxford University 7

Parry | Sir | Charles Hubert Hastings | 1848-1918 | Knight | composer and musical writer 7

Spelman | Sir | Henry | 1564-1641 | Knight | Historian and Antiquary 7

Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 7

United Nations 7

University of Oxford | Sir William Dunn School of Pathology x Dunn School 7

Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 6

Baltzar | Thomas | 1631-1663 | violinist and composer 6

Barlow | Thomas | 1607-1691 | Bishop of Lincoln 6

Bassani | Giovanni Battist | c 1650-1716 | composer 6

Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 6

Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 6

Bourne | Samuel | 1834-1912 | photographer 6

Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 6

Butler | James | 1610-1688 | 1st Duke of Ormonde | soldier and statesman 6

Buxton | Sir | Thomas Fowell | 1786-1845 | 1st Baronet | Philanthropist 6

Charles II | 1630-1685 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 6

Conservative Party | Conservative Central Office 6

Corelli | Arcangelo | 1653-1713 | composer and violinist 6

Disraeli | Benjamin | 1804-1881 | Earl of Beaconsfield | statesman 6

Ducarel | Andrew Coltee | 1713-1785 | Antiquary 6

Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 6

Elizabeth I | 1533-1603 | Queen of England and Ireland 6

Guinness | Sir | Alec | 1914-2000 | Knight | actor 6

Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 6

Lacock Abbey | Wiltshire, England 6

Laud | William | 1573-1645 | Archbishop of Canterbury 6

Milner | Alfred | 1854-1925 | Viscount Milner | statesman 6

Oxfam GB 6

Plumb | Sir | John Harold 'Jack' | 1911-2001 | Knight | historian and college head 6

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Language

English 27286

Latin 2140

French 774

Italian 329

German 301

No linguistic content; Not applicable 180

Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 103

Spanish; Castilian 99

Dutch; Flemish 95

Multiple languages 88

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Greek, Modern (1453-) 71

Undetermined 67

Hebrew 42

Arabic 41

Russian 38

Portuguese 32

Persian 27

Chinese 26

English, Old (ca.450-1100) 25

Welsh 21

Irish 19

Swahili 19

Malay 17

Swedish 17

English, Middle (1100-1500) 14

Danish 13

Hungarian 11

Amharic 10

Hausa 10

Afrikaans 8

Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan 8

Japanese 7

Turkish 7

Polish 6

Cornish 5

Czech 5

Thai 5

French, Old (842-ca.1400) 4

Hindi 4

Uncoded languages 4

Norwegian 4

Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja 4

Armenian 3

Breton 3

Celtic languages 3

Creoles and pidgins, French-based 3

Ganda 3

Scots 3

Syriac 3

Zulu 3

Australian languages 2

Bemba 2

Catalan; Valencian 2

Egyptian (Ancient) 2

Inuktitut 2

Kikuyu; Gikuyu 2

Kru languages 2

Mi'kmaq; Micmac 2

Munda languages 2

Romance languages 2

Slavic languages 2

Tamil 2

Tumbuka 2

Urdu 2

Yao 2

Yiddish 2

Bengali 1

Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic 1

Coptic 1

Esperanto 1

Estonian 1

Croatian 1

Korean 1

Malagasy 1

Maltese 1

Provençal, Old (to 1500) 1

Pushto; Pashto 1

Sanskrit 1

Slovak 1

Slovenian 1

Sotho, Southern 1

Tswana 1

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Collection

Rawlinson Manuscripts 5755

The Abinger Papers 2908

Tanner Manuscripts 2266

Archive of Bern Schwartz 655

Correspondence and papers of the Brooke Family of Sarawak 460

Archive of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), and the Edgeworth family, 17th-19th century 430

Archive of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet (1) 420

Archive of the Rt. Hon. Sir Roy Welensky, KCMG 388

Archive of the Fabian Colonial Bureau 288

Shrimpton's Oxford Caricatures 263

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Archive of Sir Walter Bodmer and Lady Julia Bodmer 233

Archive of William Clark 208

Archive of the University of Oxford 194

Archive of Sir William Harcourt and Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt 187

Papers of Sir Isaiah Berlin, 1897-1998, with some family papers, 1903-1972 181

Conservative Party Archive: Conservative Central Office - Party Chairman's Office 177

Archive of Ferdinand Stephen Joelson (1893-1979), author, editor of East Africa and Rhodesia journal 154

Archive of Dame Margery Freda Perham 142

Bodleian Library Records 138

Archive of Arthur Creech Jones 131

Gough Collection 131

Papers of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) and of his family 131

Archive of the Dashwood Family of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 126

Papers of Frederick Dealtry Lugard, Baron Lugard of Abinger 126

Music manuscripts from the Library of St Michael's College, Tenbury Wells 121

Archive of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 115

Archive of Aldred F.G.B. Lumley (Earl of Scarbrough) relating to the Royal Niger Company 112

Archive of Sir John Robert Chancellor 109

Correspondence of Cecil John Rhodes 108

Correspondence and papers of Lady Violet Bonham Carter, 1892-1969, and other family papers, 1852-2000 107

Walter Benington photographic portraits 102

Papers of Edward Max Nicholson 101

Topographical collections, correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Phillipps 99

Conservative Party Archive: Conservatives in the European Parliament 98

Archive of the Brookes of Sarawak 84

Papers of George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, with papers of related families 84

Archive of Sir James Bland Burges, mainly 1772-1824, with papers of the Burges and Head families 83

Archive of the Oman family 81

Archive of the Anti-Slavery Society 78

Archive of the Oxford Group 78

Radcliffe Trust Archive 69

Archive of William Henry Fox Talbot and the Talbot family 66

Conservative Party Archive: Printed and Published Material: Conservative Party (and affiliated groups) pamphlets 66

Gift of Michael G. and C. Jane Wilson 64

Papers of the Harcourt family 61

Philip and Rosamund Davies U.S. Elections Campaigns Archive 60

Archive of William Gilpin and family 59

Archive of the Noel, Byron and Lovelace Families 59

Archive of the Russell Family of Swallowfield, Berkshire 59

Conservative Party Archive: Party Political Broadcasts, Speeches and Press Releases 58

Dodsworth Manuscripts 58

The Marconi Archives 58

Additional papers of Sir William Harcourt and Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, with other papers of Mary Ethel Harcourt, Viscountess Harcourt, and Edward William Harcourt 57

Archive of Charles Sturt 57

Archive of Sir Denis Wright 57

Archive of John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn 55

Archive of Sir Edward Penley Abraham 55

Dr. William Cohn Bequest, Oxford University History of Art Department 55

Archive of Sir David Keir 54

Diaries of Harriet Acworth and her husband, William Acworth, Evangelical Clergyman 54

Archive of Joseph Houldsworth Oldham, D.D. 53

Archive of Charles Wilton Wood Greenidge 52

Papers of Sir Cecil Clementi 52

Archive of Sir John Pope-Hennessy 51

Archive of the Napier Family 51

Diaries of Lionel Hichens, General Sir Neville Lyttelton and Lady Lyttelton 51

Archive of the Smyly family 49

Carte Papers 49

Conservative Party Archive: Conservative Research Department 49

Conservative Party Archive: Private papers: Keith Joseph 49

Douce Manuscripts 49

Records of grants made by Oxfam ('project files') 49

Correspondence and papers of Sir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen and his family 48

Archive of Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner, 1824-1955 47

Archive of Harold Macmillan 47

Archive of Sir (D'Arcy) Patrick Reilly, 1914-1999 with some family papers, 1885-1963 46

Archive of the Colenso Family 46

Conservative Party Archive: Photographic Collection 45

Wight Music Manuscripts 45

Archive of Robert Henry Brand, Baron Brand 44

Archive of Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon (2) 44

Letters to John and John Bowyer Nichols, booksellers and antiquaries 44

Laudian Collection 43

Archive of Sir Eyre Crowe 42

Higher Education in Anglophone Tropical Africa 42

Wood Manuscripts 42

Archive of Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison 41

Archive of Cyril Dean Darlington (1903-1981) 41

Weld Family Papers 41

Dugdale Manuscripts 40

Papers of Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915), editor of the Oxford English Dictionary 40

Archive of David Astor 39

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology: Historical Papers 38

The M. Deneke Mendelssohn Collection 38

Archive of Roger Bannister 37

Additional papers of Sir Cecil Clementi 36

Harcourt estate and family papers, late 12th cent.-1967 36

Taylor Family Papers, 1798-1895 36

The John Dillwyn Llewelyn collection of Talbot photographic materials 36

Archive of Charles Alfred Coulson (1910-1974) 35

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