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Organisations (10)
- Donovan Committee on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations
- London Clarion Fellowship Committee London
- National Agricultural Labourers Union: Oxfordshire district Oxfordshire;Oxfordshire
- National Clarion Fellowship Committee
- National Guilds League
- National Metalworkers Minority Movement
- National Minority Movement
- Nuffield Social Reconstruction Survey
- Nuffield Trust for Special Areas
- Oxfordshire Agricultural Wages Committee Oxfordshire;Oxfordshire
Persons (216)
- Adam, Neil Kensington, (1891-1973), chemist
- Adrian, Edgar Douglas, (1889-1977), 1st Baron Adrian, physiologist
- Aitken, William Maxwell, (1879-1964), 1st Baron Beaverbrook, newspaper proprietor
- Akerman, John Yonge, (1806-1873), numismatist and antiquary
- Alexander, Albert Victor, (1885-1965), 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, politician
- Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, (1891-1969), 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Field Marshal
- Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett, (1873-1955), politician and journalist
- Anderson, Sir John, (1882-1958), 1st Viscount Waverley of Westdean, civil servant
- Andrade, Edward Neville Da Costa, (1887-1971), physicist
- Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, (1892-1965), physicist
- Arnot, Robin Page, (1890-1986), communist writer and historian
- Asquith, Herbert Henry, (1852-1928), 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, statesman
- Aston, Francis William, (1877-1945), physicist
- Astor, William Waldorf, (1907-1966), 3rd Viscount Astor
- Ball, Willet, (1873-1962), Railway Trade Unionist
- Barcroft, Sir Joseph, (1872-1947), Knight, physiologist
- Barrington-Ward, Robert Mcgowan, (1891-1948), journalist
- Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, (1857-1944), Princess, Governor of the Isle of Wight and Musician
- Beatty, Sir Alfred Chester, (1875-1968), Knight, mining engineer and art collector
- Beatty, David, (1871-1936), 1st Earl Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet
- Berkeley, Randal Mowbray Thomas Rawdon, (1865-1942), 8th Earl of Berkeley, physicist
- Berry, William Ewart, (1879-1954), 1st Viscount Camrose, newspaper proprietor
- Berry, William Michael, (1911-2001), Baron Hartwell, newspaper proprietor
- Bigge, Arthur John, (1849-1931), 1st Baron Stamfordham, private secretary to George V
- Blake, Robert Norman William, (1916-2003), Baron Blake, historian and college head
- Bonham-Carter, Sir Maurice, (1880-1960), Knight, politician
- Born, Max, (1882-1970), German-British physicist
- Botha, Louis, (1862-1919), South African General and Statesman
- Bottomley, Sir Norman Howard, (1891-1970), Knight, Air Chief Marshal
- Bracken, Brendan Rendall, (1901-1958), 1st Viscount Bracken, politician and publisher
- Bragg, Sir William Lawrence, (1890-1971), Knight, physicist and crystallographer
- Bridges, Edward Ettingdene, (1892-1969), 1st Baron Bridges, civil servant
- Brook, Norman Craven, (1902-1967), 1st Baron Normanbrook, civil servant
- Burney, Sir Charles Dennistoun, (1888-1968), 2nd Baronet, marine and aeronautical engineer and politician
- Butler, Richard Austen, (1902-1982), Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, politician
- Campbell, Sir Nigel Leslie, (1878-1948), Knight, businessman
- Chadwick, Sir James, (1891-1974), Knight, nuclear physicist
- Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Austen, (1863-1937), Knight, politician
- Champernowne, David Gawen, (1912-2000), economist
- Chapman, Sydney, (1888-1970), mathematician and geophysicist
- Chester, Sir Daniel Norman, (1907-1986), Knight, political economist
- Churchill, Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer, (1911-1968), journalist and politician
- Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, (1874-1965), Knight, prime minister and historian
- Clay, Sir Henry, (1883-1954), Knight, economist
- Cobbett, William, (1763-1835), MP, author, journalist and publisher
- Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas, (1897-1967), Knight, Knight, physicist and engineer
- Cole, George Douglas Howard, (1889-1959), socialist historian and political thinker
- Cole, Dame Margaret Isabel, (1893-1980), writer and political activist
- Collie, Carl Howard, (1903-1991), chemist and physicist
- Colville, Sir John Rupert, (1915-1987), Knight, diplomat
- Copeman, Sydney A Monckton, (1862-1947), medical scientist
- Crawford, Sir Robert Stewart, (b 1913), Knight, diplomat
- Crewe-Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton, (1858-1945), 1st Marquess of Crewe, statesman
- Cripps, Sir Richard Stafford, (1889-1952) Knight, politician and lawyer
- Crosland, Charles Anthony Raven, (1918-1977), politician
- Crow, Sir Alwyn Douglas, (1894-1965), Knight, ballistic engineer
- Cunliffe-Lister, Philip, (1884-1972), 1st Earl of Swinton, politician
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, (1859-1925), Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, statesman
- Dalton, Sir Edward Hugh John Neale, (1887-1962), Baron Dalton, statesman
- Dean, Sir Maurice Joseph, (1906-1978), Knight, civil servant
- Donoughue, Bernard, (b 1934), Baron Donoughue, journalist
- Douglas, Sir William Scott, (1890-1953), Knight, civil servant
- Duncan, Sir Andrew Rae, (1884-1952), Knight, politician
- Duncan-Sandys, Duncan Edwin , (1908-1987) Baron Duncan Sandys, politician
- Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley, (1882-1944), Knight, theoretical physicist and astrophysicist
- Eden, Robert Anthony, (1897-1977), 1st Earl of Avon, prime minister
- Egerton, Sir Alfred Charles Glyn, (1886-1959), Knight, Knight, chemist
- Einstein, Albert, (1879-1955), physicist
- Elliot, Walter Elliot, (1888-1958), politician
- Emmet, Evelyn Violet Elizabeth, (1899-1980), Baroness Emmet of Amberley, Conservative politician
- Emmott, Alfred, (1858-1926), 1st Baron Emmott, politician
- Fitzalan-Howard, Edmund Bernard, (1855-1947), 1st Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent, politician
- Fletcher, Sir Walter Morley, (1873-1933), Knight, physiologist and medical administrator
- Florey, Sir Howard Walter, (1898-1968), Baron Florey, pathologist and bacteriologist
- Fowler, Alfred, (1868-1940), astrophysicist
- Franck, James, (1882-1964), physicist
- French, John Denton Pinkstone, (1852-1925), 1st Earl of Ypres, Field Marshal
- Gascoyne-Cecil, Edgar Algernon Robert, (1864-1958), Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
- Gregory, John Duncan, (1878-1951), diplomat
- Grenfell, William Henry, (1855-1945), 1st Baron Desborough, politician and civil servant
- Grey, Sir Edward, (1862-1933), Viscount Grey of Falloden, statesman
- Grosvenor, Hugh Richard Arthur, (1879-1953), 2nd Duke of Westminster
- Haldane, Richard Burdon, (1856-1928), 1st Viscount Haldane, Lord Chancellor
- Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers, (1877-1963), 1st Baron Hankey of the Chart, civil servant
- Harcourt, Lewis, (1863-1922), 1st Viscount Harcourt
- Hardinge, Alexander Henry Louis, (1894-1960), 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
- Harmsworth, Cecil Bisshopp, (1869-1948), 1st Baron Harmsworth, politician
- Harmsworth, Esmond Cecil, (1898-1978), 2nd Viscount Rothermere, newspaper proprietor
- Harmsworth, Harold Sidney, (1868-1940), 1st Viscount Rothermere, newspaper proprietor
- Harris, Sir Arthur Travers, (1892-1984), 1st Baronet, Marshal, RAF
- Harrod, Sir Roy Forbes, (1900-1978), Knight, economist
- Harvey, Ian Douglas, (1914-1987), author journalist and politician
- Helmore, William, (1894-1964), Air Commodore
- Henderson, Sir Hubert Douglas, (1890-1952), Knight Economist
- Hopkin, Sir William Aylsham Bryan, (b 1914), Knight, economist
- Hume-Rothery, William, (1899-1968), chemist and metallurgist
- Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell, (1887-1975), Knight, zoologist and philosopher
- Isaacs, Stella, (1894-1971), Marchioness of Reading Baroness Swanborough
- Ismay, Hastings Lionel, (1887-1965), 1st Baron Ismay of Wormington, General
- Jackson, Derek Ainslie, (1906-1982), physicist
- Jackson, Sir Herbert, (1863-1936), Knight, chemist
- Jacob, Sir Edward Ian Claud, (1899-1993), Knight, army officer and broadcasting executive
- Jeans, Sir James Hopwood, (1877-1946), Knight, physicist and mathematician
- Jebb, Hubert Miles Gladwyn, (1900-1997), 1st Baron Gladwyn, civil servant
- Jefferis, Sir Mills Rowland, (1899-1963), Knight, Major General
- Jenkins, Roy Harris, (1920-2003), Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, politician
- Jones, Reginald Victor, (1911-1997), physicist and intelligence scientist
- Keeley, Thomas Clews, (1894-1988), physicist
- Legg, Leopold George Wickham, (1877-1962), historian
- Lennard, Reginald Vivian, (1885-1967), agricultural historian
- Lennard-Jones, Sir John Edward, (1894-1954), Knight, theoretical chemist and physicist
- Lennox-Boyd, Alan Tindal, (1904-1983), 1st Viscount Boyd, politician
- Lindemann, Charles Lionel, (1885-1970), Lieutenant Colonel, physicist and diplomat
- Lindemann, Frederick Alexander, (1886-1957), 1st Viscount Cherwell, physicist
- Lindsay , Alexander Dunlop, (1879-1952), 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, philosopher
- Llewellin, John Jestyn, (1893-1957), 1st Baron Llewellin, politician
- Lloyd, George Ambrose, (1879-1941), 1st Baron Lloyd, politician and colonial administrator
- Lockspeiser, Sir Ben, (1891-1990), Knight, aeronautical scientist
- Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph, (1851-1940), Knight, physicist
- Loveday, Alexander, (1888-1962), economist and Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford
- Lygon, William, (1872-1938), 7th Earl Beauchamp, colonial governor
- Lyttelton, Oliver, (1893-1972), 1st Viscount Chandos, businessman and politician
- MacDougall, Sir George Donald Alastair, (1912-2004), Knight, economist
- Macmillan, Maurice Harold, (1894-1986), 1st Earl of Stockton, Prime Minister
- Makins, Roger Mellor, (1904-1996), 1st Baron Sherfield, diplomat
- Marquis, Frederick James, (1883-1964), 1st Earl of Woolton, politician and businessman
- Martin, Sir John Miller, (1904-1991), Knight and civil servant
- Masterman, Sir John Cecil, (1891-1977), Knight, Provost of Worcester College Oxford
- Max-Muller, Sir William Grenfell, (1867-1945), Knight, diplomat
- Mcgowan, Harry Duncan Mcgowan, (1874-1961), Baron Mcgowan of Ardeer, chairman of ICI
- Mcwatters, Sir Arthur Cecil, (1880-1965), Knight, Indian civil servant
- Mellanby, Sir Edward, (1884-1955), Knight, physiologist
- Mendelssohn, Kurt Alfred Georg, (1906-1980), German physicist and author
- Merton, Sir Thomas Ralph, (1888-1969), Knight, professor of spectroscopy
- Milne, Edward Arthur, (1896-1950), astrophysicist and cosmologist
- Mond, Henry, (1898-1949), 2nd Baron Melchett, industrialist and financier
- Moore-Brabazon, John Theodore Cuthbert, (1884-1964), 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, politician
- Morel, Edmund Dene, (1873-1924), MP Author and Journalist
- Morris, William Richard, (1877-1964), Viscount Nuffield, industrialist
- Morrison, Herbert Stanley, (1888-1965), 1st Baron Morrison of Lambeth, statesman
- Morton, Sir Desmond John Falkiner, (1891-1971), Knight, Knight, army officer and intelligence officer
- Moullin, Eric Balliol, (1893-1963), electrical engineer and university teacher
- Nernst, Walther Herman, (1864-1941), chemist
- Newton, Henry, (1880-1959), weapons inventor
- Nicholson, George Crosfield Norris, (1884-1915), Civil Servant
- Nye, Sir Archibald Edward, (1895-1967), Knight, Lieutenant General
- Owen, Robert, (1771-1858), Socialist and Philanthropist
- Paget, Sir Arthur Henry Fitzroy, (1851-1928), Knight General
- Pakenham, Francis Aungier, (1905-2001), 7th Earl of Longford, politician, writer, and philanthropist
- Palmer, Roundell Cecil, (1887-1971), 3rd Earl of Selborne, politician
- Pam, Albert, (1875-1955), natural historian and financier
- Paneth, Friedrich Adolf, (1887-1958), chemist
- Pease, Edward Reynolds, (1857-1955), secretary of the Fabian Society
- Pease, Joseph Albert, (1860-1943), 1st Baron Gainford
- Pease, Sir Joseph Whitwell, (1828-1903), 1st Baronet Businessman and MP
- Peck, Sir John Howard, (1913-1995), Knight, diplomat
- Plaskett, Harry Hemley, (1893-1980), astronomer
- Portal, Charles Frederick Algernon, (1893-1971), Viscount Portal of Hungerford, Marshal of Royal Air Force
- Postan, Sir Michael Moissey, (1899-1981), Knight, economic historian
- Postgate, John Percival, (1853-1926), Classical Scholar
- Postgate, Raymond, (1896-1971), Socialist Historian and Journalist
- Pridham, Arthur Francis, (1886-1975), Knight, Vice-Admiral
- Primrose, Archibald Philip, (1847-1929), 5th Earl of Rosebery, statesman
- Pye, Sir David Randall, (1886-1960), Knight, director of scientific research at Air Ministry
- Raikes, Humphrey Rivaz, (d 1955), chemist and principal of the University of the Witwatersrand
- Reckitt, Maurice Bennington, (1888-1980), Writer and Christian Sociologist
- Renwick, Robert Burnham, (1904-1973), businessman
- Robertson, Sir Robert, (1869-1949), Knight, chemist and explosives expert
- Robinson, Sir Robert, (1886-1975), Knight, Knight, chemist
- Rootes, William Edward, (1894-1964), motor vehicle manufacturer
- Rowan, Sir Thomas Leslie, (1908-1972), Knight, civil servant and industrialist
- Rowe, Albert Percival, (1898-1976), scientific administrator
- Rowntree, Benjamin Seebohm, (1871-1954), sociologist and manufacturer
- Rumbold, Sir Horace George Montagu, (1869-1941), 9th Baronet, diplomat
- Runciman, Walter, (1870-1949), Viscount Runciman of Doxford, statesman
- Rutherford, Ernest, (1871-1937), Baron Rutherford of Nelson, physicist
- Ryle, Gilbert, (1900-1976), philosopher
- Ryle, Sir Martin, (1918-1984), Knight and radio astronomer
- Samuel, Herbert Louis, (1870-1963), 1st Viscount Samuel, statesman
- Schrodinger, Erwin, (1887-1961), physicist
- Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, Henry James, (1902-1983), 11th Earl of Dundee
- Seal, Sir Eric Arthur, (1898-1972), Knight, civil servant
- Seely, John Edward Bernard, (1868-1947), 1st Baron Mottistone
- Shackle, George Lennox Sharman, (1903-1992), economist
- Simon, Sir Francis Eugene, (1893-1956), Knight, physicist
- Simon, John Allsebrook, (1873-1954), 1st Viscount Simon, Lord Chancellor
- Simpson, Sir George Clarke, (1878-1965), Knight and meteorologist
- Sinclair, Archibald Henry Macdonald, (1890-1970), 1st Viscount Thurso, politician
- Smith, Sir Frank Edward, (1876-1969), Knight, industrial scientist
- Smith, Frederick Winston Furneaux, (1907-1975), 2nd Earl of Birkenhead, biographer
- Stallybrass, William Teulon Swan, (1883-1948), Principal of Brasenose College Oxford legal scholar
- Steel-Maitland, Sir Keith Richard Felix Ramsay, (1912-1965), 3rd Baronet
- Strutt, Robert John, (1875-1947), 4th Baron Rayleigh, physicist
- Tanner, Frederick John Shirley, (1889-1965), Trade Unionist
- Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Ingram, (1886-1975), Knight, physicist and engineer
- Thomson, Sir George Paget, (1892-1975), knight, physicist
- Tizard, Sir Henry Thomas, (1885-1959), Knight, Knight, physical chemist and science administrator
- Townsend, Henry, (1815-1886), missionary to Nigeria
- Townsend, Sir John Sealy Edward, (1868-1957), Knight, physicist
- Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, (1889-1975), historian
- Trevor-Roper, Hugh Redwald, (1914-2003), Baron Dacre, historian
- Turner, Herbert Hall, (1861-1930), astronomer and seismologist
- Tyndall, Arthur Mannering, (1881-1961), physicist
- Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Charles Stewart Henry, (1878-1949), 7th Marquess of Londonderry, politician
- Veale, Sir Douglas, (1891-1973), Knight, registrar of Oxford University
- Vickers, Douglas, (1861-1937), MP businessman
- Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville, (1887-1979), Knight, aeronautical designer and engineer Ripley, Derbyshire
- Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander, (1892-1973), Knight, physicist
- Weizmann, Chaim, (1874-1952), chemist, scholar and Zionist leader
- Whiddington, Richard, (1885-1970), physicist
- Whittaker, Sir Edmund Taylor, (1873-1956), Knight, mathematician and astronomer
- Williams, Shirley Vivien Teresa Brittain, (b 1930), politician
- Wimperis, Harry Egerton, (1876-1960), aeronautical engineer
- Wright, Sir Charles Seymour, (1887-1975), Knight, scientist
- Wright, Sir Edward Maitland, (1906-2005), Knight, mathematician
- Zuckerman, Solly, (1904-1993), Baron Zuckerman of Burnham Thorpe, scientist and public servant
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (16)
- NRA 16798 Clarion Fellowship
- NRA 19275 Sir Henry Clay, economist: papers
- NRA 371 William Cobbett papers
- NRA 611 GDH Cole: Oxon Agricultural Labourers Union collection
- NRA 39325 George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist historian and political thinker: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 39324 Dame Margaret Isabel Cole, author, lecturer and socialist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 17309 Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott: diaries, corresp and papers
- NRA 15734 Sir Hubert Henderson, politician: papers
- NRA 16902 RV Lennard: corresp and papers relating to agriculture
- NRA 16447 Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 24354 William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield: papers
- NRA 16799 National Guilds League
- NRA 16797 National Metalworkers' Minority Movement
- NRA 16796 National Minority Movement
- NRA 36428 Nuffield Trust for Special Areas
- NRA 34096 Philip Maynard Williams, historian and political scientist: corresp and papers