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Businesses (14)
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Co Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Epsom Liberal Club Premises Co Ltd Epsom, Surrey
- Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, publishers London
- Gloucester & Dean Forest Railway Co Gloucestershire;Gloucestershire
- Great Western Railway Co London
- Hamish Hamilton Ltd, publishers London
- Henry Willcock & Co Ltd, building contractors Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
- London & Birmingham Railway Co Birmingham, Warwickshire
- Penguin Books Ltd, publishers, London London
- Port of London Authority London
- Sir George H Oatley, architect Bristol, Gloucestershire
- South Devon Railway Co Devon;Devon
- William Paty & Son, architects Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Wilts, Somerset & Weymouth Railways
Organisations (75)
- Goldney House, University of Bristol University Bristol, Gloucestershire;Clifton, Gloucestershire
- Accrington Liberal Association Accrington, Lancashire
- Anthropological Society of London London
- Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) Avon
- Birmingham Labour Party Birmingham, Warwickshire
- Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol Baptist College Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol city elections Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol East Liberal Association Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol Independent Labour Party Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol Labour Party Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol Liberal Party
- Bristol Madrigal Society Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol Musical Festival Society Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol New Church (Swedenborgian) Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol Scientific Club Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol South East Liberal Association Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol Trades Council Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol University Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol University Physical Society Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol University Womens Club Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol University: Cecil Powell Centre for Science Education Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol University: Dental School Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol University: Department of Biology Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol University: Department of Geography Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol University: Graduate School of Education Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol University: Greenland Club Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol University: Long Ashton Research Station Long Ashton, Somerset
- Bristol University: Medical Faculty Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol University: Science faculty Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Bristol University: Student's Union Bristol, Gloucestershire
- British Lichen Society
- Child Poverty Action Group: Bristol branch Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Cirencester Liberal Party Cirencester, Gloucestershire
- Council for the Preservation of Ancient Bristol Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Department of Employment
- East Dorset Womens Liberal Federation Dorset;Dorset
- Feminist Archive South Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Green Party (Scotland)
- Historical Photographs of China project
- Inspector-General of Customs
- Inverclyde By-election Scotland
- Kingswood Abbey Kingswood, Gloucestershire
- Lewin's Mead Unitarian Church, Bristol Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Ley Trust
- Liberal Central Association
- Liberal Council
- Liberal Party
- Liberal Social Council
- London Independent Labour Party London
- Maudlin Street Moravian Church, Bristol Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Moravian Church in Great Britain and Ireland Overseas Missions London
- National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education: Bristol branch Bristol, Gloucestershire
- National League of Young Liberals
- National Union of Mineworkers: Somerset Somerset;Somerset
- Parliamentary By-Elections Shropshire;Amersham, Buckinghamshire;Batley, Yorkshire;Bexley, Kent;Birmingham, Warwickshire;Chesham, Buckinghamshire;Erdington, Warwickshire;Hartlepool, Durham;Honiton, Devon;Sidcup, Kent;Southend-on-Sea, Essex;Spen Valley, Yorkshire;Tiverton, Devon;Wakefield, Yorkshire
- Penguin Collectors Society
- Radstock Branch Labour Party Radstock, Somerset
- Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission
- Scout Association: University of Bristol Scout and Guide Club Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Single Parent Action Network Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Sizewell B Public Inquiry
- SS Great Britain
- Stroud borough elections Stroud, Gloucestershire
- Union of Liberal Students
- University and College Union: Bristol University
- Wessex Regionalists
- Western Counties Liberal Federation
- Western Union of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches
- Wildfilm Archive, wildlife photography project
- Women Liberal Democrats
- Womens Liberal Federation
- Women's Liberation Music Archive
- Yorkshire Liberal Federation Leeds, Yorkshire
Persons (226)
- Adam Smith, Janet Buchanan, (1905-1999), author and journalist
- Alcock, Rutherford, (1809-1897), Knight, surgeon and diplomat
- Aldington, Richard, (1892-1962), Novelist
- Allen, Clifford Edward, (b 1902), Psychiatrist
- Allen, Walter Ernest, (1911-1995), novelist, literary critic, broadcaster
- Alston, Edward Richard, (1845-1881), zoologist
- Amis, Sir Kingsley, (1922-1995), Knight, novelist and literary critic
- Annan, Noel Gilroy, (1916-2000), Baron Annan, historian and academic administrator
- Armstrong, Harold Courtenay, (1892-1943), Captain Author
- Armstrong, William George, (1810-1900), Baron Armstrong of Cragside, industrialist
- Austin, Alfred, (1835-1913), Poet Laureate and journalist
- Badock, Sir Stanley H, (fl 1922-1945), Dr, Pro-Chancellor and Treasurer of the University of Bristol Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Baillie, Evan, (1741-1835), West Indies merchant and Whig politician
- Baillie, Peter, (1771-1811), West India Merchant MP
- Balfour, Arthur James, (1848-1930), 1st Earl of Balfour, statesman
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, (1834-1924), rector of Lew Trenchard, antiquary, folklorist and hymn writer
- Bateman, Donald, (b 1919), socialist
- Beddoe, John, (1826-1911), Physician and Anthropologist
- Beddoes, Thomas, (1760-1808), physician and writer
- Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene, (1870-1953), poet and author
- Bennett, Joan, (1896-1986), literary scholar
- Besant, Sir Walter, (1836-1901), Knight, novelist and historian
- Bilby, Bruce Alexander, (1922-2013), metallurgist
- Blackman, Moses, (1908-1983), Physicist
- Blackmore, Richard Doddridge, (1825-1900), author
- Blake, William Lawes, (1928-2011), student at the University of Bristol Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Brabrook, Sir Edward William, (1839-1930), Knight anthropologist
- Brian, Havergal, (1876-1972), composer Dresden, Staffordshire
- Brickdale, Matthew, (1735-1831), MP for Bristol
- Bright, John, (1811-1889), politician Rochdale, Lancashire
- Brockway, Archibald Fenner, (1888-1988), Baron Brockway, politician
- Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes, (1854-1926), historian of Venice
- Brunel, Henry Marc, (1842-1903), Civil Engineer
- Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, (1806-1859), civil engineer
- Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard, (1769-1849), Knight Civil Engineer
- Buckingham, Amyand David, (b 1930), Chemist
- Buckland, William, (1784-1856), Dean of Westminster, geologist
- Bullen, Arthur Henry, (1857-1920), publisher and author
- Burch, Cecil Reginald, (1901-1983), physicist and engineer
- Burrough, Thomas Headley Bruce, (1910-2001), artist and architect
- Byrne, Lawrence , (1896-1965), knight judge
- Calder-Marshall, Arthur, (1908-1992), Author
- Caner, Henry, (1700-1792), Anglican Clergyman
- Chamberlain, Joseph, (1836-1914), statesman
- Cinamon, Jerry, (b 1930), designer and typographer
- Closs, August, (1898-1990), Professor of German, University of Bristol
- Cohen, Daniel, (b1934), author, supporter of women's liberation, mathematician
- Collar, Arthur Roderick, (1908-1986), aeronautical engineer
- Conze, Edward, (1904-1979), Orientalist
- Cooke, George Albert, (1865-1939), Professor of Hebrew Oxford
- Crowdy, Dame Rachel Eleanor, (1884-1964), Social Reformer
- Davis, Joseph Barnard, (1801-1881), craniologist
- Day Lewis, Cecil, (1904-1972), poet
- Demant, Vigo Auguste, (1893-1983), theologian
- Domb, Cyril, (1920-2012), physicist
- Douglas, Norman, (1868-1952), author and traveller
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns, (1888-1965), poet
- Ellis, Henry Havelock, (1859-1939), psychologist, writer and social reformer Croydon, Surrey
- Eshelby, John Douglas, (1916-1981), Materials Scientist
- Eyles, Victor Ambrose, (1895-1978), geologist United Kingdom
- Faraday, Michael, (1791-1867), natural philosopher
- Flower, Desmond John Newman, (1907-1997), publisher
- Fordham, Sir Herbert George, (1854-1929), Knight, writer on cartography
- Forster, Edward Morgan, (1879-1970), novelist and critic
- Foulds, John Herbert, (1880-1939), Composer
- Fowler, Peter Howard, (1923-1996), physicist
- Foyle, Christina Agnes Lilian, (1911-1999), Managing Director of Foyles
- Frank, Sir Frederick Charles, (1911-1998), Knight, physicist
- Frohlich, Albrecht, (1916-2001), mathematician
- Frost, Eunice, (1914-1998), publisher and editor
- Frost, Lewis Charles, (1926-1998), botanist
- Furse, Charles Wellington, (1868-1904), Painter
- Furse, Dame Katharine, (1875-1952), Director of WRNS and World Bureau of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
- Gardner, Dame Helen Louise, (1908-1986), literary scholar
- Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot, (1830-1903), 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, statesman
- Geake, Charles, (1867-1919), Liberal Editor
- Gell, Sir William, (1778-1836), Knight, archaeologist and traveller
- Gladstone, Herbert John, (1854-1930), 1st Viscount Gladstone, statesman
- Gladstone, William Ewart, (1809-1898), statesman
- Goschen, George Joachim, (1831-1907), 1st Viscount Goschen, statesman
- Gregory, John, (1831-1922), Socialist and Author
- Hale, Matthew Blagden, (1811-1895), Bishop of Brisbane
- Hardy, Thomas, (1840-1928), novelist and poet
- Hart-Davis, Sir Rupert Charles , (1907-1999) Knight, author, editor and publisher
- Hesketh, Ross Vernon, (1929-2004), scientist Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Hetherington, Hector Alastair, (1919-1999), journalist and editor
- Hinton, Howard Everest, (1912-1977), Entomologist
- Hoggart, Richard, (1918-2014), academic, broadcaster and writer
- Holme, Edith Constance, (1880-1955), author
- Hood, Thomas, (1835-1874), humorist
- Hopkinson, Alfred Stephan, (b 1908), Rector of Bobbingworth
- Hough, Graham Goulder, (1908-1990), Literary Scholar
- Humberstone, Thomas Lloyd, (1876-1957), educationalist
- Hunt, Edgar, (1909-2006), musician and biographer
- Hunt, James, (1833-1869), Ethnologist
- Jacobs, William Wymark, (1863-1943), Writer
- Jamison, Robin Ralph, (1912-1991), engineer
- Jenkins, Roy Harris, (1920-2003), Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, politician
- Jones, Reginald Victor, (1911-1997), physicist and intelligence scientist
- Keller, Andrew, (1925-1999), Physicist
- Kelly, Anthony, (1929-2014), metallurgical scientist
- Kerr, William Robert Martin Jarrett-, (b 1912), Anglican Clergyman
- King, David James Cathcart, (1913-1989), military historian
- Lambert, Jack Walter, (1917-1986), Literary Editor
- Lane, Sir Allen Lane Williams, (1902-1970), Knight, publisher
- Lane, John, (1854-1925), publisher
- Lang, Andrew Richard, (1924-2008), physicist
- Lansbury, George, (1859-1940), Labour Politician
- Laski, Marghanita, (1915-1988), Novelist and Critic
- Lawn, James Gunson, (1868-1952), mining engineer
- Lawrence, John Waldemar, (b 1907), Editor
- Lee, Austin, (1909-1963), Crime Novelist Rector of Carlton Magna
- Lee, John Michael, (b 1932), sociologist and historian, professor of politics
- Leonard, George Hare, (1863-1941), Professor of History, University of Bristol
- Little, Bryan Desmond Greenway, (fl 1927-1956), Local Historian
- London, Heinz, (1907-1970), Atomic Scientist
- Long, Asphodel P, (1921-2005), author and feminist theologian
- Lusty, Sir Robert Frith, (1909-1991), Knight, publisher
- Lympany, Dame Moura, (b 1916), Concert Pianist
- Mander, Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier, (1882-1962), Knight MP Lawyer
- Mare, Walter John de la, (1873-1956), author and poet
- Marshall, Bruce, (1899-1987), Novelist
- Martin, Henry, (d 1721), Inspector General of Imports and Exports
- Merrick, Frank, (1886-1981), pianist
- Merrison, Sir Alexander Walter, (1924-1989), Knight, physicist
- Miles, Philip Napier, (1865-1935), composer
- Milner, Alfred, (1854-1925), 1st Viscount Milner, statesman
- Montgomery, Robert Bruce, (1921-1978), writer and composer
- Moore, Harry Thornton, (1908-1981), Literary Scholar and Editor
- Morgan, Conwy Lloyd, (1852-1936), comparative psychologist and philosopher
- Morgan, Gladys Mary, (1894-1957), nurse in First World War
- Morris, Sir Philip Robert, (1901-1979), Knight Educationalist
- Mott, Sir Nevill Francis, (1905-1996), Knight and physicist
- Muir, Kenneth, (1907-1996), Professor of English
- Murdoch, Dame Jean Iris, (1919-1999), novelist and philosopher
- Murrell, Kenneth Frank Hywell, (1908-1984), psychologist Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Musgrave, Jonathan H, (fl 1982-2001), senior lecturer in anatomy and specialist in osteoarchaeology
- Myers, Charles Samuel, (1873-1946), psychologist
- Nabarro, Frank Reginald Nunes, (b 1916), Physicist
- Niblett, William Roy, (1906-2005), educationist
- Nineham, Dennis Eric, (b 1921), Theologian Emeritus Canon of Bristol Cathedral
- Oatley, Sir George Herbert, (1863-1950), architect
- Opie, Peter Mason, (1918-1982), Author
- Paget, John Moore, (c 1792-1866), High Sheriff of Rutland
- Paget, Richard, (1766-1794), Curate of East Cranmore
- Paget, Sir Richard Horner, (1832-1908), 1st Baronet
- Paget, Violet, (1856-1935), author
- Pearson, Hesketh, (1887-1964), Writer
- Pennycuick , Professor Colin James, (1933-2019) Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Pinney, Charles, (1793-1867), Mayor of Bristol
- Pinney, Hester, (b 1875), Lady Pinney
- Pinney, Robert, (d 1988), Author
- Pinney, William, (1806-1898), MP
- Pinto, Vivian de Sola, (1895-1969), poet, literary critic and historian
- Plaxton, Venerable Cecil Andrew, (1902-1993), Archdeacon of Wiltshire
- Popham, Margaret Evelyn, (1894-1982), Principal of Cheltenham Ladies College
- Portman, Derek, (1927-2005), engineer
- Potter, Stephen Meredith, (1900-1969), writer and radio producer
- Poulton, Sir Edward Bagnall, (1856-1943), Knight Zoologist
- Powell, Anthony Dymoke, (1905-2000), novelist
- Powell, Cecil Frank, (1903-1969), physicist
- Powell, Elizabeth Dilys, (1901-1995), film critic and author
- Primrose, Archibald Philip, (1847-1929), 5th Earl of Rosebery, statesman
- Pugsley, Sir Alfred Grenvile, (1903-1998), Knight Civil Engineer
- Radice, Betty, (1912-1985), Author
- Raymond, Ernest, (1888-1974), Novelist
- Raynor, John Theodore Livingston, (1909-1970), composer
- Repton, Humphry, (1752-1818), landscape gardener
- Reynolds, Sidney Hugh, (1867-1949), professor of Geology, University of Bristol
- Robertson, John Henry, (1909-1965), author and journalist
- Robinson, John Arthur Thomas, (1919-1983), Suffragan Bishop of Woolwich
- Rubinstein, Michael Bernard, (b 1920), Solicitor
- Russell, Leonard, (1906-1974), Newspaper Editor
- Rutson, Alfred Osliff, (1836-1890), Barrister
- Sabatini, Rafael, (1875-1950), novelist
- Sabin, Arthur, (fl 1938-1975), Author and historian Abbots Leigh, Somerset
- Salinger, Jerome David, (1919-2010), author
- Saunders, Charles Alexander, (1797-1864), Secretary of Great Western Railway
- Schmoller, Hans, (1916-1985), typographer
- Scott, Doreen , (1931-2017)
- Scott-James, Anne Eleanor, (1913-2009), Lady Lancaster, editor and columnist
- Senhouse, Sir Humphrey Fleming, (1781-1841), Knight Captain RN
- Senior, Nassau William, (1790-1864), economist
- Simon, Sir Francis Eugene, (1893-1956), Knight, physicist
- Sinclair, Robert Charles, (1928-2008), Rev Dr, Royal Navy Chaplain and Barrister United Kingdom;Belfast, County Antrim;Cork, County Cork;Dublin, County Dublin
- Sisson, Charles Hubert, (b 1914), Poet and Author
- Soper, Donald Oliver, (1903-1998), Baron Soper, Methodist minister
- Sowerby, James, (1757-1822), naturalist
- Sowerby, James de Carle, (1787-1871), naturalist and artist
- Spender, Sir Stephen Harold, (1909-1995), Knight, poet
- St John-Stevas, Norman Antony Francis, (1929-2012), Baron St John of Fawsley, MP, author and journalist
- Stanton, Alfred John, (1825-1906), Liberal MP
- Stephenson, Robert, (1803-1859), civil engineer
- Stern, Michael, (b 1942), MP
- Stewart, John Innes Mackintosh, (1906-1994), critic and novelist
- Sturgeon, Mary, (fl 1922-1924), author and biographer
- Symonds, John Addington, (1840-1893), poet, historian and translator
- Tabor, David, (1913-2005), physicist
- Tanner, Robin, (1904-1989), HM Inspector of Schools and artist
- Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Ingram, (1886-1975), Knight, physicist and engineer
- Teichman, Sir Eric, (1884-1944), Knight Diplomat
- Teichmann, Emil, (fl 1860-1923), Fur Trader
- Thomas, John Meurig, (b 1932), Physical Chemist
- Thompson, Alexander Hamilton, (1873-1952), historian
- Tippett, Sir Michael Kemp, (1905-1998), Knight, composer
- Tolansky, Samuel, (1907-1973), Physicist
- Treby, Ivor C, (1933-2012), poet and gay literary activist
- Trigg, David, (fl 2014-2018), art historian Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Unwin, Emma Jane Catherine, (1851-1949), Feminist
- Unwin, Sir Stanley, (1884-1968), Knight, publisher
- Unwin, Thomas Fisher, (1848-1935), publisher
- Vezin, Hermann, (1829-1910), Actor and elocutionist
- Walker, Kenneth MacFarlane, (1882-1966), Physiologist
- Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville, (1887-1979), Knight, aeronautical designer and engineer Ripley, Derbyshire
- Wedgwood, Dame Cicely Veronica, (1910-1997), historian
- West, Pat V T, (1938-2008), activist and writer Bristol, Gloucestershire
- West, Dame Rebecca, (1892-1983), critic and novelist
- White, James, (1809-1883), MP
- Wigglesworth, Sir Vincent Brian, (1899-1994), Knight Entomologist
- Williams, Raymond Henry, (1921-1988), Historian Critic and Novelist
- Williams, Sir William Emrys, (1896-1977), Knight, Secretary General of the Arts Council
- Woodward, John, (1665-1728), physician and geologist
- Woolf, Leonard Sidney, (1880-1969), editor, author and civil servant
- Yonge, Sir Charles Maurice, (1899-1986), Knight, marine biologist
- Young, Charles Kenneth, (1916-1985), Biographer
- Zutshi, Derek, (1930-2007), doctor and medical historian
Diaries (14)
- Becker, John, Moravian Brother Jamaica
- Bosanko, John, (fl 1953-1988), Chairman of Convocation, University of Bristol Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Cinamon, Gerald, (fl 1965-1985), designer and typographer
- Collins, Reg, (fl 1938), Communist Party secretary
- Crowhurst, Donald, Sailor
- Curry, Neil, (fl1950-2017), poet
- Goldney, Thomas
- Gough, Jane Elizabeth, (d1848), Of Perry Hall And Oldfallings Perry Hall, Staffordshire;Oldfallings, Staffordshire
- Malos, Ellen, (fl 1969-2013), activist and academic Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Miltitz, Henrietta Sophia de, (fl 1728-1787), Moravian Sister
- Paget, Anne, Of Cranmore Hall East Cranmore, Somerset
- Sims, J E, Moravian Brother Bristol, Gloucestershire
- West, Jackie, (fl 2002-2010), activist and academic
- White, Thomas Hedley, (fl 1932-1977), doctor Bridport, Dorset
Families (13)
- Andrus family of Scadbury Manor, Southfleet Southfleet, Kent
- Berkeley family, Earls of Berkeley Abingdon, Berkshire;Fawler, Berkshire;Uffington, Berkshire;Wootton, Berkshire;Penpoll, Cornwall;Devon;Portesham, Dorset;Alkington, Gloucestershire;Berkeley, Gloucestershire;Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire;Cam, Gloucestershire;Coaley, Gloucestershire;Kingswood, Gloucestershire;Michaelwood, Gloucestershire;Slimbridge, Gloucestershire;Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire;Yate, Gloucestershire;Northaw, Hertfordshire;Alconbury, Huntingdonshire;Weston, Huntingdonshire;Kent;Diseworth, Leicestershire;Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire;London;Cranford, Middlesex;Harlington, Middlesex;South Newington, Oxfordshire;Norfolk;Bedminster, Somerset;Portbury, Somerset;Bosham, Sussex;Caludon, Warwickshire;Hovingham, Yorkshire;Thirsk, Yorkshire
- Gay family of Bristol Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Goldney family of Clifton, Bristol Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Goldney family, baronets, of Bradenstoke Abbey Bradenstoke Abbey, Wiltshire;Clifton, Gloucestershire;Andover, Hampshire;Clapton, Somerset;Halse, Somerset;Chippenham, Wiltshire;Corsham, Wiltshire;Stanley, Wiltshire
- Gough family of Perry Hall Perry Hall, Warwickshire;Wednesfield, Staffordshire;Wolverhampton, Staffordshire;Birmingham, Warwickshire;Perry Barr, Warwickshire
- Louse family of Hairfield
- Miles family, baronets, of Leigh Court Leigh Court, Somerset;Abbots Leigh, Somerset
- Paget family, baronets, of Cranmore Cranmore Hall, Somerset;East Cranmore, Somerset;Doulting, Somerset;Newberry, Somerset;Oldfallings, Staffordshire;Wednesfield, Staffordshire;Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
- Pascoe family of Bristol Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Pretor-Pinney family of Somerton Erleigh Somerton Erleigh, Somerset;Bettiscombe, Dorset;Broadwinsdor, Dorset
- Sidney Hill Family of Langford House, Somerset
- Smyth family, baronets, of Ashton Court Ashton Court, Somerset;Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire;Stapleton, Gloucestershire;Foxcote, Somerset;Long Ashton, Somerset;Nailsea, Somerset;Wraxall, Somerset;St Andrew, Jamaica;Evesham, Worcestershire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (42)
- NRA 25818 Sir Rutherford Alcock, diplomat: corresp and papers mainly rel to Portugal and Spain
- NRA 37027 Don Bateman, labour activist and writer: Spanish Civil War and British Labour Party collections link to online catalogue
- NRA 28242 John Beddoe, anthropologist: corresp and papers
- NRA 28088 Bristol University Library: misc accessions
- NRA 28085 Brunel family, civil engineers: business and associated papers
- NRA 28439 Cecil Reginald Burch, physicist and engineer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 17667 Henry Caner, missionary: corresp
- NRA 33585 Clifton Suspension Bridge Co, Bristol
- NRA 31135 Arthur Roderick Collar, aeronautical engineer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 31780 Victor Ambrose Eyles, geologist: MS collection rel to the history of British geology link to online catalogue
- NRA 32939 Sir Frederick Charles Frank, physicist: corresp and papers
- NRA 43620 Eunice Frost, publisher and editor: corresp and papers
- NRA 31777 Dame Katharine Furse, director of the Womens Royal Naval Service: corresp and papers
- NRA 34540 Goldney family of Clifton: corresp and papers
- NRA 40323 John Gregory, socialist and author: corresp and papers
- NRA 33587 Hamish Hamilton Ltd, publishers, London
- NRA 40214 Howard Everest Hinton, entomologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 28243 Hodge (Baker) collection: Wilts deeds
- NRA 28254 Robert Huntley-Davidson, accountant: corresp and papers
- NRA 40215 Robin Ralph Jamison, engineer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 33588 David James Cathcart King, writer on castles: corresp and papers
- NRA 43618 Sir Allen Lane Williams Lane, publisher: corresp and papers
- NRA 17359 Heinz London, atomic scientist: notebooks, corresp and papers
- NRA 28089 Maudlin Street Moravian Church, Bristol
- NRA 33586 Conwy Lloyd Morgan, comparative psychologist and philosopher: corresp and papers
- NRA 33764 National Liberal Club
- NRA 28091 National Union of Mineworkers: Somerset Miners Association link to online catalogue
- NRA 28090 Paget family, baronets, of Cranmore Hall: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 28086 Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth: letters from authors
- NRA 39438 Penguin Books Ltd: corresp and papers rel to the Lady Chatterley's Lover trial link to online catalogue
- NRA 16668 Pinney family, merchants and West Indies planters, Bristol: family and estate papers
- NRA 17590 Cecil Frank Powell, nuclear physicist: corresp, notebooks and papers
- NRA 32625 Sir Alfred Grenvile Pugsley, civil engineer: corresp and papers
- NRA 31779 Betty Radice, author: corresp and papers
- NRA 29705 Radstock Local Labour Party
- NRA 41342 Michael Stern MP: constituency papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 28092 John Addington Symonds, author: letters and papers
- NRA 35755 Robin Tanner, HM Inspector of Schools and etcher: letters link to online catalogue
- NRA 28087 Jane Fisher Unwin, feminist: corresp and misc papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43619 Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, publishers, London
- NRA 40324 Wessex Regionalist Party
- NRA 31778 Womens Liberal Federation link to online catalogue
Accessions
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