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Manuscripts: Archives and Modern: General Finding Aids

A guide to the finding aids available for early modern and modern manuscripts and printed ephemera in the Bodleian Library.

Oxford college special collections

Special collections in Oxford colleges [175kb]
An alphabetical list of Oxford colleges, with descriptions of their special collections holdings.

General finding aids for (inter)national collections

The links here are to SOLO records of book or journal holdings within Oxford.

British Archives
by Janet Foster and Julia Sheppard (4th ed., 2002).
The Aslib directory of literary and historical collections in the UK
by Keith W. Reynard (London, 1993).
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts: Guides to Sources for British History
(12 vols. to date; Historical Manuscripts Commission, London, 1982-2003).
A Guide to Western Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles relating to South and South-East Asia, with supplements
by J. D. Pearson.and M.D. Wainwright (London, 1965, 1989, 1990).
A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles relating to the Far East
by M.D. Wainwright and J.D. Pearson (Oxford, 1977).
A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles relating to the Middle East and North Africa
by N. Matthews and M. D. Wainwright (Oxford, 1980).
A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles relating to Africa
by N. Matthews and M.D. Wainwright (Oxford, 1971).
Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
by P. Mander-Jones (Canberra, 1972).
Guide to Documents and Manuscripts in the United Kingdom relating to Russia and the Soviet Union
by J. M. Hartley (London, 1987).
A Guide to Manuscripts relating to America in Great Britain and Ireland
by John Raimo (London, 1979).

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