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World War, 1914-1918

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:

Braun Family Archive

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Braun Family, including papers of Thomas Braun (1935-2008), classicist and Fellow and Dean of Merton College, and family history research material.
Extents: 37.0 Linear metres (221 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1685-2019

Copies of the Papers of Sydney Spencer

 Collection
Copies of the Papers of Sydney Spencer
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1914-1918

Copy of an account by E.R. Lyth of his experiences at the battle of Loos, 1915

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2720, fols. 1-15
Copy of an account by E.R. Lyth of his experiences at the battle of Loos, 1915.
Extents: 15 Leaves
Dates: 1915, 1990

Correspondence of Cordelia Curle, with additional papers of H.A.L. Fisher and additional Fisher family papers

 Collection
Correspondence of Cordelia Curle (1879-1970), with additional papers of H.A.L Fisher (1865-1940), historian and politician, and additional papers of the Fisher family.
Extents: 4.5 Linear metres (30 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1810, 1844, 1862-1957, 1972

Diary of Andrew Clark

 Collection
Diary of Andrew Clark, Aug. 1914-Dec. 1919, recording daily impressions.
Extents: 4.60 Linear metres (92 boxes)
Dates: August 1914-December 1919

Diary of R.W.M. Gibbs

 Collection
Diary of R.W.M. Gibbs
Extents: 1.54 Linear metres (14 boxes)
Dates: 1914-1920

Facsimiles of the Correspondence of Sir Alfred Zimmern and of Lord Eustace Percy

 Collection
Facsimiles of selected correspondence held in American and Israeli archive collections. Major subjects covered include Sir Alfred Zimmern, Anglo-American relations (particularly during Lord Bryce's ambassadorship), World War One, the League of Nations, Zionism and Palestine. The facsimiles comprise: Zimmern's lecture to the Zionist Organization, London, 1919 a photocopy of two pages from...
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: photocopies (originals 1911-49)

Further papers of Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, 1884-1922

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt (1863-1922), Liberal politician.
Extents: 10.0 Linear metres (214 shelfmarks)
Dates: 1884-1922

George Butterworth war diary and letters, with later papers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 6242
Diaries, letters and other material related mainly to George Butterworth and the war he fought in. 1914-1942, n.d.
Extents: 1 box (5 folders)
Dates: 1914-1942, n.d.

Handwritten poem by T.W.H. Crosland entitled 'Real Hate'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7903, fols. 2-3
Handwritten poem by T.W.H. Crosland entitled 'Real Hate'.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: n.d. [c. 1914-1918]

Horse & Donkey etc., c.1900s-1930s

 File
Shelfmark: MS. 19966/14
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1900s-1930s

Letter from H.H. Asquith to [Margaret Evelyn Stanley]

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2720, fols. 64-67
Letter from H.H. Asquith to [Margaret Evelyn Stanley], 1915.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: 1915

Letters from Arthur Grotjan Marshall, later Calder-Marshall, to his wife, Alice, née Poole

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2722
Letters from Arthur Grotjan Marshall, later Calder-Marshall, to his wife, Alice, née Poole
Extents: 234 Leaves
Dates: 1914-1918

Letters from H.H. Asquith to Venetia Stanley

 Collection
Personal letters from H.H. Asquith, while he was Prime Minister, to Venetia Stanley.
Extents: 1.2 Linear metres (8 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1910-15, 1927

Letters mainly from Edward Louis Gresley-Cox, sergeant in the 1/1 Cheshire Yeomanry, later lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps (d.1918) with 3 photographs

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 4006
Letters mainly from Edward Louis Gresley-Cox, sergeant in the 1/1 Cheshire Yeomanry, later lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps (d.1918) with 3 photographs
Extents: 54 Leaves
Dates: 1914-19

Letters of condolence to Herbert Henry Asquith on the death of his eldest son, Raymond Asquith (1878-1916), and papers of Anthony Asquith

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 12687
Letters of condolence to Herbert Henry Asquith on the death of his eldest son, Raymond Asquith (1878-1916), and papers of Anthony Asquith.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1916-1958

Letters relating to the Boer War and papers of William Ward's army service

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 882, fols. 188-206
Letters relating to the Boer War and papers of William Ward's army service
Extents: 19 Leaves
Dates: 1899-1918

Manuscript volume of poetry "This Happy World of Things" by "Troglodyte"

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23409
Manuscript volume of poetry "The Happy World of Things" by a female poet under the pseudonym "Troglodyte".
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1918

Material concerning Balliol College and Oxford during the Great War

 Collection
Material concerning Balliol College and Oxford during the Great War, 1917-1924.
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1917-1924

Newbolt and Furse family archive

 Collection
Papers of the Newbolt and Furse families, mainly of Sir Henry Newbolt, Margaret Newbolt (née Duckworth), John Henry Monsell Furse, Sir Ralph Furse and Celia Furse (née Newbolt).
Extents: 5.04 Linear metres (88 boxes)
Dates: [1515]-2020; Majority of material found within 1760-2020