Archives and Manuscripts

Alphabetical list of archives and manuscripts

This list is intended to give a brief overview of all the archive collections currently held in Special Collections. For full details please search by MS No. at the Online Archives Catalogue.

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Name Manuscript Number Description
Acland MS 104 Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland (1906-1990), Bt, MP: papers relating to theories associated with the Common Wealth political party, 1930s-c 1989
Adams MS 241 Michael Adams (1920-2005), journalist: correspondence, unpublished/published articles and other writings, also including assorted research materials on Middle East, 1953-2003
Al-Azmah MS 215 Al-Azmah: copies of papers of  Nabih Al-Azmah (1886-1972), politician, and Adil Al-Azmah (? 1888-1952), lawyer and state official, 20th c
Alcock MS 281 Deborah Alcock (1835-1913), novelist: diary for 1871, bound manuscript notebooks, bound volume of reviews, cuttings and letters etc
Al-Dayrabi MS 218 One manuscript volume, containing copy of ‘Kitab al-Mujarrabat’ aka ‘Fath-al-malik al-majid’ by Al-Dayrabi (d 1738/9), ? 20th c
Al-Majdi MS 219 One manuscript vol. containing commentary on Muhammad ibn Ali al-Birkawi's ‘Al-awamil al-jadida’ by ? Yusuf Al-Majdi, entitled ‘I' lam al-haqabbat’, ? 20th c
Allcroft MS 168 A Hadrian Allcroft: scrapbook of typewritten extracts, photographs and newspaper cuttings entitled ‘Earthworks of England: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman and mediaeval’. Also includes several articles by R Hanford Worth on Dartmoor archaeology, and by E Herbert Stone on Stonehenge, c 1950
Andrews MS 67 H G Andrews, poet: literary manuscripts, 1934-1940
Anglo-Saxon MS 261 Anglo-Saxon manuscript microfilm collection: selected microfilm manuscripts taken from items listed in Neil Ker's Catalogue of manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (1957, rev. 1990)
Apartheid MS 216 Exeter Anti-Apartheid Group: newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts and correspondence relating to administration of group, 1970-early 1990s (see also Bennun, EUL MS 112)
Arrabeh MS 153 Arrabeh, Palestine: papers relating to 100 years of the village's history, 1969-1972
Arvon MS 329 Papers of the Arvon Foundation
Australia MS 176 Watch Bill for HMS Australia, 1889, maintained by Lieutenant Richard M Harbord, 1889
Ayres MS 40 Joseph Ayres (fl 1650), cleric of Pilton: commonplace books (two volumes), 1650
Ayubi MS 129 Nazih Ayubi, political scientist and Middle East scholar: academic papers, c 1983-c 1995