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Businesses (73)
- Adderbury Grounds Farm Adderbury, Oxfordshire
- George Allen & Co, publishers London
- George Allen & Unwin Ltd, publishers London
- Associated Book Publishers (UK) Ltd London
- Bailliere, Tindall & Cox Ltd, medical and scientific publishers London
- George Bell & Sons, publishers London
- A & C Black Ltd, publishers Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Bodley Head Ltd, publishers London
- Book Marketing Ltd London
- Bowes & Bowes (Cambridge) Ltd, booksellers Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Bradley & Sons Ltd, printers Reading, Berkshire
- Cadell & Davies, publishers and booksellers London
- Jonathan Cape Ltd, publishers London
- Norman Chambers, pencil manufacturer
- Chapman & Hall Ltd, publishers London
- Chatto & Windus Ltd, publishers London
- Chiswick Press, publishers London
- J & A Churchill, medical and scientific publishers London
- William Clowes & Sons Ltd, printers and publishers Beccles, Suffolk;London
- Croom Helm Ltd, publishers Beckenham, Kent
- Crosby Lockwood & Co, publishers London
- William Darton & Joseph Harvey, publishers London
- De La Rue & Co Ltd, printers of social stationery, stamps, and playing cards London
- DEGW, architecture and design practice, London London
- Doggetts Hall, farm Rochford, Essex
- Frank Duffy, architect
- Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd London
- Field Farm Burghfield, Berkshire
- The Forge Uffington, Berkshire
- Luigi Giffone, architect
- Grove Farm Blackford, Somerset
- Harlequin Mills & Boon Ltd, publishers Richmond, Surrey
- Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, publishers
- High Hill Bookshop, Hampstead Hampstead, Middlesex
- Hogarth Press Ltd, publishers London
- Huntley & Palmers Ltd, biscuit manufacturers Reading, Berkshire
- Huntley, Boorne & Stevens Ltd, tin box manufacturers Reading, Berkshire
- Ladybird Books Ltd, publishers Loughborough, Leicestershire
- London Typographical Designers Ltd London
- Longman Group Ltd, publishers London
- Macmillan & Co Ltd, publishers London
- The Manor Farm Barwell, Leicestershire
- Charles Elkin Mathews, bookseller and publisher London
- Merlin Press, publishers
- Methuen & Co Ltd, publishers London
- Old Moor, Boston Park and Brooke Farms Braithwaite, Yorkshire
- Peter Owen Ltd, publishers London
- JW Parker, Son & Bourn, publishers London
- John Payne, corn and oil mill owner Yorkshire and the Humber
- Peek Frean & Co Ltd, biscuit manufacturers London
- Sir Richard Phillips, publisher and bookseller London
- Phoenix House Ltd, publishers London
- Pierson & Park Ltd, wholesale stationers Southwark, Surrey
- Pneumatic Despatch Co Ltd London
- Random House UK, publishers London
- William Felix Riley, farmer Berkshire;Berkshire
- Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, publishers London
- Secker & Warburg Ltd, publishers London
- WH Smith & Son Ltd, newsagents London
- E & F N Spon Ltd, publishers London
- Swan Sonnenschein & Co, publishers London
- Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, law publishers and booksellers London
- Tavistock Publications Ltd London
- Troika Publishers, London London
- Two Rivers Press Ltd, Reading Reading, Berkshire
- AJ Valpy, publisher London
- Virago Press Ltd London
- Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, publishers London
- Westerham Press, London London
- Whiteknights Press, University of Reading Reading, Berkshire
- Samuel Woolcott, carpenter Topsham, Devon
- FW Woolworth & Co Ltd, department store London
- Unnamed farm, Mears Ashby Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire
Organisations (36)
- Adderbury enclosure Adderbury, Oxfordshire
- Addington tithes Addington, Kent
- Berkshire: sheriff Berkshire;Berkshire
- Booksellers Association
- Britain in Europe: Reading branch Reading, Berkshire
- British Council
- British Dairy Institute
- Centre for the Teaching of Reading, School of Education, University of Reading Reading, Berkshire
- Conference of University Convocations
- Cromford Bridge and Langley Mill Turnpike Cromford Bridge, Derbyshire;Langley Mill, Derbyshire
- Friends of the University of Reading Reading, Berkshire
- Henley Business School Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
- Henley Parochial Lending Library Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
- Independent Publishers' Guild
- Isotype Institute Ltd
- Italian Refugees' Relief Committee
- Leeds University English Society Leeds, Yorkshire
- Medway Heritage Centre Medway, Kent
- Nuffield Physics Project
- Printing Historical Society London
- Publishers Association London
- Reading and District Natural History Society Reading, Berkshire
- Reading Corporation Reading, Berkshire
- Reading University Athletic Union Reading, Berkshire
- Reading University Boat Club Reading, Berkshire
- Receiver General and Cashier of the Customs
- Studley College Guild Warwickshire;Warwickshire
- Studley Horticultural and Agricultural College for Women Studley, Warwickshire
- University of Reading Reading, Berkshire
- University of Reading Chaplaincy Reading, Berkshire
- University of Reading Womens Club Reading, Berkshire
- Ure Museum, University of Reading Reading, Berkshire
- Ernest George White Society, vocal technique society
- Whitefriars Club, London London
- Workers Educational Association: Reading branch Reading, Berkshire
- Working Party on Library and Book Trade Relations (LIBTRAD)
Persons (446)
- Abbott, Claude Colleer (1889-1971), literary scholar and poet
- Ackland, Valentine (1906-1969), poet
- Adcock, Arthur St John (1864-1930), novelist
- Aldington, Richard (1892-1962) Novelist
- Aldiss, Brian Wilson (b 1925) Novelist
- Alington, Cyril Argentine (1872-1955) Dean of Durham Author
- Allen, George (1832-1907) Engraver and Publisher
- Allingham, William (1824-1889), poet
- Anderson, John Redwood (1883-1964) Poet
- Armstrong, Terence Ian Fitton (1912-1970), poet and bibliographer
- Aspinall, Arthur (1901-1972) Historian
- Astor, Sir John Jacob (1918-2000) Knight, politician and sportsman
- Astor, Nancy Witcher (1879-1964) Viscountess Astor, MP
- Astor, Waldorf (1879-1952) 2nd Viscount Astor
- Astor, William Waldorf (1907-1966) 3rd Viscount Astor
- Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973), poet York, Yorkshire
- Bacon, Nathaniel (1547-1622) MP
- Bain, John Vernon (1922-2007), poet, pseudonym Vernon Scannell
- Baker, Sir Samuel White (1821-1893) Knight, traveller and explorer in Africa
- Balfour, Arthur James (1848-1930) 1st Earl of Balfour, statesman
- Baring, John (1863-1929) 2nd Baron Revelstoke, banker
- Baring, Maurice (1874-1945), journalist and author
- Barker, Audrey Lilian (b1918), writer
- Barley, Maurice Willmore (1909-1991), archaeologist
- Barnes, Ronald Gorell (1884-1963) 3rd Baron Gorell, author
- Baron, Alexander (1917-1999), author
- Barraclough, Geoffrey (1908-1984), historian
- Barrie, Sir James Matthew (1860-1937), 1st baronet, playwright, novelist Kirriemuir, Angus
- Bartlett, Charles Vernon Oldfeld (1894-1983), journalist and broadcaster
- Bassett, Henry (1881-1965) Chemist
- Bates, Herbert Ernest (1905-1974), novelist
- Bawden, Nina Mary Kark (1925-2012), author
- Bax, Clifford (1886-1962), author and playwright
- Baybars, Taner (b 1936), author
- Beal, William (1815-1870) Anglican clergyman, schoolmaster, author
- Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (1872-1898), artist
- Beckett, Samuel Barclay (1906-1989), author, playwright and poet Dublin, County Dublin
- Bell, Adrian Hanbury (1901-1980) Writer
- Bell, George (1814-1890), publisher
- Bell, Henry Thomas Mackenzie (1856-1930) Writer
- Bell, Neil (1887-1964) Author
- Bellaigue, Eric de (fl 1966-2014), publishing historian
- Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene (1870-1953), poet and author
- Benson, Edward Frederic (1867-1940), author
- Beresford, John Davys (1873-1947) Author
- Bibesco, Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy (1897-1945), novelist, wife of Prince Antoine Bibesco
- Binyon, Robert Laurence (1869-1943), poet art historian and critic
- Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977) Poet
- Blackie, John Stuart (1809-1895), classical scholar and man of letters
- Blackwood, Lord Ian Basil Gawaine Temple (1870-1917) Private Secretary to Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
- Blaydes, Frederick Henry Marvell (1818-1908), classical scholar
- Blunden, Edmund Charles (1896-1974), poet
- Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen (1840-1922), hedonist, poet, and breeder of Arab horses
- Bolt, Robert Oxton (1924-1995) Playwright
- Bottome, Phyllis (1884-1963), writer
- Bottomley, Gordon (1874-1948), poet and dramatist
- Bowen, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (1899-1973), novelist
- Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930) Poet Laureate
- Britton, Andrew (1952-1994), film critic
- Brooke, Stopford Augustus (1832-1915), writer and preacher
- Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes (1854-1926), historian of Venice
- Brown, William Francis (1862-1951) Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark
- Budge, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (1857-1934) Knight, Assyriologist and Egyptologist
- Bullett, Gerald William (1893-1958) Writer
- Byatt, Antonia Susan (b 1936), author
- Cadell, Thomas (1742-1802) Publisher
- Callow, Philip (1924-2007), novelist
- Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831-1884) Poet and Parodist
- Campbell, Ignatius Roy Dunnachie (1901-1957), poet and translator
- Cardus, Sir Neville (1889-1975), knight, journalist
- Carfrae, Elizabeth (1879-1968), novelist
- Castle, Egerton (1858-1920) Author and Journalist
- Causley, Charles Stanley (1917-2003), poet, broadcaster and teacher
- Cayley, Arthur (1821-1895) Mathematician
- Challans, Eileen Mary (1905-1983) Writer called Mary Renault
- Charles, Gerda (1916-1996) Author
- Cherry, Henry Curtis (1798-1864) Clergyman, Antiquary
- Childs, William Macbride (1869-1939), historian
- Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa (1891-1976), author
- Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer (1849-1895), statesman
- Clark, Leonard (1905-1981) Poet and Author
- Clay, Sir Charles Travis (1885-1978) Knight Librarian and Antiquary
- Cleugh, James (1891-1969), Author and Translator
- Clough, Anne Jemima (1820-1892) Principal of Newnham College
- Clouston, Joseph Storer (1870-1944), author and antiquary
- Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle (1867-1962) Knight, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, bibliographer
- Coleridge, Stephen (1854-1936), artist and author
- Collins, John Churton (1848-1908), critic and historian
- Colvin, Sir Sidney (1845-1927) Knight, art and literary critic
- Cooke, Rupert Croft- (1903-1979) Author
- Coppard, Alfred Edgar (1878-1957), poet and author
- Costley, Ronald (1939-2015), typographer and deisgner Blackburn, Lancashire
- Courthope, William John (1842-1917) Civil Servant Poet and Critic
- Cox, William Trevor (b 1928), novelist and playwright
- Coxhead, Elizabeth (1909-1979), novelist
- Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (1867-1906), novelist and dramatist
- Craik, George Lillie (d 1905) Author and Publisher
- Crankshaw, Edward (1909-1984) Historian and Political Commentator
- Croall, Jonathan (b 1941), author and journalist
- Crosland, Camilla Dufour (1812-1895), writer
- Cruikshank, George (1792-1878), artist and caricaturist
- Currie, Lady Mary Montgomerie (1843-1905), poet and novelist
- Curtis, Lionel George (1872-1955), colonial historian
- Curzon, George Nathaniel (1859-1925) 1st Marquess Curzon, statesman
- Daiken, Leslie (1912-1964), Irish socialist journalist and poet, writer on children's games and toys
- Darling, Sir Frank Fraser (1903-1979) Knight, ecologist
- Davidson, Basil Risbridger (1914-2010), author and historian
- Davidson, John (1857-1909), poet
- Davies, William Henry (1871-1940), poet and author
- Dawson, George Geoffrey (1874-1944), editor of The Times
- Deanesly, Margaret (1885-1977) historian
- Denham, Sir James Steuart- (1712-1780) 7th Baronet, economist
- Derry, John (1854-1937) Schoolmaster Educationist Journalist
- Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881) Earl of Beaconsfield, statesman
- Ditcham, RW (1903-87) Physicist
- Ditchburn, Robert William (1903-1987) Physicist
- Donleavy, James Patrick (b 1926) Author and Playwright
- Dunning, John Harry (1927-2009), international business and economics scholar
- Dwoskin, Stephen (1939-2012), film-maker New York, New York
- Dyer, Thomas Henry (1804-1888), historian
- Easdale, Gladys Ellen (1875-1970), author
- Eastlake, Charles Locke (1836-1906) Keeper of the National Gallery Art Historian
- Edwards, Dorothy (1903-1934), writer
- Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham- (1836-1919) Writer
- Ellis, Edwin John (1848-1916), author
- Ellis, Henry Havelock (1859-1939), psychologist, writer and social reformer Croydon, Surrey
- Elphinstone, Sidney Herbert (1869-1955) 16th Baron Elphinstone
- Empson, William (1906-1984) Poet and Professor of English Literature
- Enright, Dennis Joseph (b 1920), poet and author
- Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536), humanist and theologian
- Ewing, Juliana Horatia (1841-1885), children's author
- Ferguson, Sir Samuel (1810-1886) Knight Poet and Antiquary
- Firth, Sir Charles Harding (1857-1936) Knight, historian
- Fleming, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964), writer
- Fleming, Robert Peter (1907-1971) Author and War Correspondent
- Fletcher, Ian (b 1920) English Scholar and Poet
- Fort, Adrian (fl 2000), author
- Freeman, Gillian (b 1929) author
- Fretter, Vera (1905-1992), molluscan anatomist, Professor
- Frith, Roger (1936-2008), poet and playwright
- Fry, Plantaganet Somerset (1931-1996) historian author
- Galbraith, Vivian Hunter (1889-1976), historian
- Gallienne, Richard Thomas Le (1866-1947), poet and essayist
- Galsworthy, John (1867-1933), author
- Garnett, David (1892-1981) Author
- Garnett, Edward (1868-1937), writer
- Garnett, Richard (1835-1906) Librarian Poet Biographer Literary Scholar
- Garvin, James Louis (1868-1947) Newspaper Editor
- Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot (1830-1903) 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, statesman
- Gathorne-Hardy, Gathorne (1814-1906) 1st Earl of Cranbrook, statesman
- Gatty, Alfred (1813-1903), vicar of Ecclesfield, archaeologist and topographer
- Gatty, Margaret (1809-1873), writer and naturalist
- Gielgud, Sir Arthur John (1904-2000) Knight, actor and theatre director
- Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck (1836-1911) Knight, dramatist
- Girodias, Michael (1919-90) Publisher
- Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898), statesman
- Glyn, Elinor (1864-1943) Novelist
- Gogarty, Oliver St John (1878-1957) Irish Senator and Writer
- Golding, Sir William Gerald (1911-1993) Knight, novelist
- Goldring, Douglas (1887-1960) Novelist
- Gosse, Philip (1879-1959) Author Historian
- Gould, Gerald (1885-1936), author and critic
- Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (1852-1936), politician and author
- Grahame, Kenneth (1859-1932) Author Secretary of the Bank of England
- Greene, Graham (1904-1991), novelist
- Grey, Albert Henry George (1851-1917) 4th Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada
- Grigson, Geoffrey Edward Harvey (1905-1985), Poet and Critic
- Grosart, Alexander Balloch (1827-1899), author and editor
- Guest, John (1911-1997) Literary Critic
- Gwynn, Stephen Lucius (1864-1950), author and Irish nationalist
- Haggard, Sir Henry Rider (1856-1925) Knight, novelist
- Hamilton, Sir George Rostrevor (1888-1967) Knight Poet Writer and Civil Servant
- Hampson, John (1901-1955) novelist
- Hampton, Christopher (b 1946) Playwright
- Harmer, Florence Elizabeth (d 1967) Anglo-Saxon scholar
- Hart, Cyril Edwin (d 2009), Surveyor Forester Verderer Local Historian
- Harvey, Michael (b 1931) Typographer
- Hawkins, Herbert Leader (1887-1968), geologist
- Hazeltine, Harold Dexter (1871-1960) Professor of Law
- Henderson, Donald Landels (c1905-1947), author and playwright
- Henriques, Robert (1905-1967) Author
- Hermann, Frank (b 1927), author, publisher and bookseller
- Heron-Allen, Edward (1861-1943), zoologist
- Hobsbaum, Philip Dennis (1932-2005), poet and English scholar
- Hockney, Roger (d 1999), Professor of Computer Science at University of Reading
- Hodges, Cyril Walter (1909-2004), writer, illustrator and theatre designer
- Hodgkin, Thomas (1831-1913) Historian
- Hodgkinson, George (1761-1822) Solicitor
- Holdsworth, Lucy Violet (1869-1954), Quaker writer
- Holtby, Winifred (1898-1935), author and journalist
- Hope, Sir Theodore Cracraft (1831-1915) Knight Indian Administrator
- Hopkins, Kenneth (1914-1988), Poet and author
- Horniman, Roy (1872-1930) Writer
- Housman, Laurence (1865-1959), writer and artist
- Howard, Elizabeth Jane (1923-2014), Novelist
- Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren (1900-1976) Author
- Hunt, Isobel Violet (1866-1942), novelist and founder of Women Writer's Suffrage League
- Hunter, Norman (1908-1971) Novelist and Playwright
- Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894-1963), novelist and critic Surrey
- Ingleby, Holcombe (1854-1926) MP for King's Lynn
- Irwin, Margaret Emma Faith (1889-1967), writer
- Jacob, Edgar (1844-1920) Bishop of St Albans
- Jeffrey, Francis (1773-1850), Lord Jeffrey Scottish judge and critic
- Jerrold, Douglas Francis (1893-1964) Author and Publisher
- Jones, Owen (1809-1874), architect and designer
- Kantorowicz, Hermann (1877-1940) Lecturer in Jurisprudence
- Kavanagh, Patrick Joseph Gregory (1931-2015), writer, poet, actor Worthing, Sussex
- Kendon, Frank Samuel Herbert (1893-1959) poet and critic
- Kennaway, James Peebles Ewing (1928-1968), author
- Kennedy, Margaret (1896-1967) afterwards Davies, Lady Davies, Playwright and Author
- Kernahan, John Coulson (1858-1943), writer
- Kerr, Philip Henry (1882-1940) 11th Marquess of Lothian, statesman
- King, Francis Henry (1923-2011), author
- Kingsmill, Hugh (1889-1949) Author
- Kitchin, Clifford Henry Benn (1895-1967) Writer
- Klein, Viola (1908-1973) Sociologist
- Koteliansky, Samuel Solomonovich (1880-1955), translator
- Kurtag, Gyorgy (b 1926), composer and pianist
- Lane, John (1854-1925), publisher
- Lawrence, Thomas Edward (1888-1935), intelligence officer and author
- Leavis, Frank Raymond (1895-1978) Literary Critic Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Lehmann, John Frederick (1907-1987), editor and author
- Lehmann, Rosamond Nina (1901-1990), novelist
- Lennard, Reginald Vivian (1885-1967), agricultural historian
- Lewis, Cecil Day (1904-1972) poet
- Lewis, John (fl 1950-1995) Typographer
- Lewis, Wyndham (1884-1957) American Author and Artist
- Lindsay, Jack (1900-1990) Author
- Linklater, Eric (1899-1974), author
- Lockwood, William Burley (1917-2012), professor of modern languages
- Low, David Morrice (1890-1972), writer
- Loyd, Lewis Christopher (1875-1947), historian
- Lusty, Sir Robert Frith (1909-1991) Knight, publisher
- Lynd, Sylvia (1888-1952), writer
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859) Baron Macaulay, statesman and historian
- MacBeth, George Mann (1932-1992), poet and editor
- Macinnes, Mairi (1925-2017), poet and author
- Macmillan, Alexander (1818-1896), publisher
- Mais, Stuart Peter Brodie (1885-1975) Writer and Broadcaster
- Mannheim, Karl (1893-1947), sociologist
- Mare, Walter John de la (1873-1956), author and poet
- Marsh, Richard (d 1915), novelist
- Marshall, Arthur Calder- (1908-1992), Author
- Massingham, Harold John (1888-1952) Journalist and Author
- Masterman, Sir John Cecil (1891-1977), Knight, Provost of Worcester College Oxford
- Mathew, Frank (1865-1924), author and barrister
- Mathews, Charles Elkin (d 1921) Publisher
- Mathias, Roland Glyn (1915-2007), Poet, editor and critic
- Mavrogordato, John Nicolas (1882-1970) Classical Scholar
- Maxwell, Gavin (1914-1969), author and conservationist
- Mayor, John Eyton Bickersteth (1825-1910), classical scholar and antiquary
- McLean, John David Ruari (1917-2006), Typographer and Author
- Mee, Arthur Henry (1875-1943) Author and Journalist
- Megroz, Rodolphe Louis (1891-1968) Literary Journalist
- Meneghello, Luigi (1922-2007), writer and scholar Italy;Reading, Berkshire
- Menuhin, Yehudi (1916-1999) Baron Menuhin, violinist
- Meteyard, Eliza (1816-1879), author
- Meyerstein, Edward Harry William (1889-1952) Poet and Author
- Meynell, Sir Francis (1891-1975), publisher and poet
- Mildmay, Francis Bingham (1861-1947) 1st Baron Mildmay, politician
- Milner, Frederick George (1849-1931) 7th Baronet MP
- Milnes, Richard Monckton (1809-1885) 1st Baron Houghton, politician and poet
- Mitchell, Edgar William John (1925-2002), physicist
- Mitchison, Naomi Margaret (1897-1999) Baroness Mitchison, writer and social activist Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855), novelist and dramatist
- Mittelholzer, Edgar Austin (1909-1965) Writer
- Monsell, John Samuel Bewley (1811-1875) Hymn Writer
- Moore, Nicholas (1918-1986), poet
- Moore, Thomas (1779-1852), poet
- Moore, Thomas Sturge (1870-1944), writer and wood engraver
- Mordaunt, Elinor (1877-1942) Novelist
- Morgan, Charles Langbridge (1894-1958), novelist, critic and playwright
- Morley, Edith Julia (1875-1964) Professor of English Language Reading University
- Morley, John (1838-1923) Viscount Morley of Blackburn, statesman
- Mottram, Ralph Hale (1883-1971), author
- Moult, Thomas (1893-1974) Poet Novelist and Critic
- Muir, Edwin (1887-1959), poet and author
- Mumford, Lewis (1895-1989) American Sociologist
- Munby, Alan Noel Latimer (1913-1974), librarian, bibliographer, historian and book collector
- Munro, Hector Hugh (1870-1916), short-story writer
- Murry, John Middleton (1889-1957), writer and journal editor
- Myers, Leo Hamilton (1881-1944) Novelist
- Nettleship, John Trivett (1841-1902) Animal Painter and Author
- Neurath, Otto (1882-1945) Inventor of International System of Typographic Pictures
- Nevill, Ralph Henry (1865-1930), writer
- Neville, Eric Harold (1889-1961) Mathematician
- Newman, John Henry (1801-1890) Cardinal, priest, poet and theologian
- Newstead, Robert (1859-1947) Entomologist
- Noel, Roden Berkeley Wriothesley (1834-1894) Poet
- Norrie, Ian (1927-2009), writer, bookseller and journalist
- Norris, John Pilkington (1823-1891) Archdeacon of Bristol Writer On Education and Theology
- O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington (1890-1941) Writer and Editor
- O'Casey, Sean (1880-1964), playwright and writer
- O'Donnell, Elliott (1872-1965), author and lecturer
- O'Malley, Lady Mary Dolling Sanders (1891-1974), author
- Origo, Dame Iris (1902-1988), author, wife of Marchese Antonio Origo
- Osers, Ewald (b 1917) Translator and Writer
- Ovstedal, Barbara (1921-2012), author Bognor Regis, Sussex
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp (1815-1888), classical scholar
- Palgrave, William Gifford (1826-1888) Diplomat and Traveller
- Palmer, Herbert Edward (1880-1961), poet and literary critic
- Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings (1848-1918) Knight Composer and Musical Writer
- Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton (1823-1896), poet
- Peach, Lawrence Du Garde (1890-1974), historian and dramatist
- Perkins, Victor F (b 1936), film critic
- Phillips, Sir Richard (1767-1840) Knight Author Bookseller and Publisher
- Physick, Edward Harold (1878-1972), Author
- Pinget, Robert (1919-1997), writer Geneva, Switzerland
- Pinkerton, John (1758-1826), historian and antiquary
- Plomer, William Charles Franklyn (1903-1973), poet and novelist
- Plumptre, Edward Hayes (1821-1891) Dean of Wells
- Pollock, Walter Herries (1850-1926), barrister, journalist, poet, playwright London
- Polnay, Peter de (1906-1984), Writer
- Porter, Peter Neville Frederick (1929-2010), poet
- Post, Sir Laurens Jan Van Der (1906-1996) Knight, author and traveller
- Pountney, Rosemary (1937-2016), actor, interpreter and scholar of Samuel Beckett's work
- Powicke, Sir Frederick Maurice (1879-1963) Knight, historian
- Powys, Llewelyn (1884-1939) Author
- Price, Lilian Nancy (1880-1970), actress and author
- Priestley, John Boynton (1894-1984), writer
- Priestly, A E (fl 1923-1973), author
- Pritchett, Sir Victor Sawdon (1900-1997) Knight Author and Critic
- Procter, Adelaide Ann (1825-1864), poet called Adelaide Procter and Mary Berwick
- Pudney, John Sleigh (1909-1977), poet, fiction writer, dramatist and journalist
- Pullein-Thompson, Christine (b 1925), author
- Pullein-Thompson, Diana (b 1925), author
- Pullein-Thompson, Josephine Mary Wedderburn (1924-2014), author
- Radford, Ernest (1857-1919), poet, art critic and socialist
- Rado, Richard (1906-1989), mathematician Reading, Berkshire
- Read, Sir Herbert (1893-1968), Knight, art critic, author and anarchist
- Redgrave, Sir Michael Scudamore (1908-1985) Knight Actor
- Redgrove, Peter William (b 1932), poet
- Riddell, Alan (1927-1977), poet
- Rix, Timothy John (1934-2012), publisher
- Roberts, Carl Eric Bechhofer (1894-1949) Author and Journalist
- Roberts, Denys Kilham (1903-1976) Writer Secretary General for Society of Authors
- Roberts, Michael (1902-1948), author and critic Bournemouth, Hampshire
- Robertson, Eileen Arnot (1903-1961) afterwards Turner, Author
- Robinson, Charles (1870-1937) Painter
- Robinson, Henry Crabb (1775-1867) Diarist
- Rodker, John (1894-1955) Author and Translator
- Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855), poet
- Rose, John Holland (1855-1942), historian
- Ross, Sir Ronald (1857-1932) Knight, bacteriologist
- Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919), man of letters and art critic
- Rotha, Paul (1907-1984) Film Producer
- Round, John Horace (1854-1928), historian
- Rue, Warren de la (1815-1889), chemist and astronomer
- Rugman, Alan (1945-2014), Head of International Business and Strategy at Henley Business School Bristol, Gloucestershire;Reading, Berkshire
- Russell, Peter (1921-2003), poet, translator
- Rylands, George Humphrey Wolferstan (1902-1999) literary critic and historian
- Sackville-West, Victoria Mary (1892-1962), poet, novelist and biographer
- Sadleir, Michael Thomas Harvey (1888-1957) Author and Publisher
- Sadler, Sir Michael Ernest (1861-1943) Knight Educational Pioneer and Art Patron
- Sansom, William (1912-1976) Author
- Scott, James Maurice (1906-1986), author and explorer
- Searle, George Frederick Charles (1864-1954) Experimental Physicist
- Selincourt, Aubrey de (1894-1962), author, translator and Classical scholar
- Series, George William (1920-1995) Physicist
- Serraillier, Ian (1912-1994), children's author
- Seymour, William Kean (1887-1975) Poet Novelist and Journalist
- Sharp, Evelyn (1869-1955) Author and Journalist
- Sharp, William (1855-1905), author and poet
- Shaw, Charlotte Frances (1857-1943), political activist, wife of George Bernard Shaw
- Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950), author and playwright
- Sherard, Robert Harborough (1861-1943), author and journalist
- Shiel, Matthew Phipps (1865-1947) Author and Journalist
- Sibley, Franklin (fl 1967-1968), Vice Chancellor and Professor, University of Reading
- Sieveking, Lancelot de Giberne (1896-1972), author, playwright and producer
- Sisam, Kenneth (1887-1971) author
- Sitwell, Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell (1892-1969), 5th Baronet, author
- Skelton, Christopher (1925-92) Printer, Typographer and Publisher
- Skinner, Martyn (1906-1993) Poet
- Smedley, Menella Bute (1820-1877), poet and novelist
- Smith, Albert Hugh (1903-1967) Professor of English language and literature
- Smith, Naomi Gwladys Royde- (1875-1964), literary editor and writer
- Smith, Pauline (1882-1959) writer
- Smith, William Frederick Danvers (1868-1928) 2nd Viscount Hambleden, philanthropist
- Smith, William Henry (1825-1891), statesman
- Somerville, Edith Anna Oenone (1858-1949), writer
- Spencer, Bernard (1909-1963), poet
- Sprigge, Cecil Jackson Squire (1896-1959) Journalist and Author
- Squire, Sir John Collings (1884-1958) Knight, writer and journalist
- Steele, Robert (1860-1944) Literary Scholar
- Stenton, Doris Mary (1894-1971), historian
- Stenton, Sir Frank Merry (1880-1967) Knight Historian
- Strickland, Agnes (1796-1874), historian
- Strong, Leonard Alfred George (1896-1958), writer
- Sutcliff, Rosemary (1920-1992), novelist
- Sutherland, Robert Garioch (1909-1981), poet and translator
- Swanwick, Anna (1813-1899), author
- Swinnerton, Frank Arthur (1884-1982), novelist and critic
- Symons, Arthur William (1865-1945), editor, critic and poet
- Tate, William Edward (1902-1968), historian
- Taylor, Arthur G (fl 1950-1981), employee at WH Smith & Son Ltd, newsagents
- Thompson, Edward (1917-2001) Publisher and Editor
- Thurston, E Temple (1879-1933) Author and Poet
- Tiller, Terence Rogers (1916-1987), Poet, writer and radio producer
- Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de (1805-1859), French writer
- Todhunter, John (1839-1916) Author and Playwright
- Tomlinson, Henry Major (1873-1958) Writer and Traveller
- Treece, Henry (1911-1966) Author
- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838-1928) 2nd Baronet Statesman and Historian
- Trewin, John Courtenay (1908-1990) Theatre Critic
- Trypanis, Constantine Athanasius (b 1909) Classical Scholar and Poet
- Turner, Walter James Redfern (1889-1946) Author and Journalist
- Turnour, Edward (1883-1962) 6th Earl Winterton
- Upward, Edward Falaise (1903-2009), Author
- Urwick, Lyndall Fownes (1891-1983) management theorist
- Valpy, Abraham John (1787-1854) Editor and Printer
- Vere, Aubrey Thomas de (1814-1902), poet and author
- Victoria (1819-1901) Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
- Wain, John Barrington (1925-1994), novelist, poet, literary critic
- Wake, Joan (1884-1974) Archivist Antiquary
- Wallace, Grace (c1804-1878), author and translator
- Waller, Sir John Stanier (1917-1995) 7th Baronet, author, poet and journalist
- Waller, Robert Ferns (1913-2005), poet, ecologist and radio producer
- Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour (1884-1941) Knight Novelist and Man of Letters
- Warner, Rex (1905-1986) Writer
- Warner, Sylvia Townsend (1893-1978), novelist and poet
- Warren, Albert Henry (1830-1911), artist and designer
- Waterhouse, Alfred (1830-1905), architect
- Waterhouse, Paul (1861-1924) architect Manchester, Lancashire
- Watson, Sir John William (1858-1935) Knight Poet
- Wheeler, Sir Robert Eric Mortimer (1890-1976) Knight Archaeologist
- White, Terence Hanbury (1906-1964), writer
- White, William Hale (1831-1913), writer
- Whitelaw, Billie Honor (1932-2014), actress
- Whyte, Frederic (1867-1941) Writer and Translator
- Wilde, Jane Francesca (1826-1896), author
- Williams, George Emlyn (1905-1987), playwright and actor
- Williamson, Henry (1895-1977) Naturalist and Author
- Wilson, Frank Percy (1889-1963) Merton Professor of English Literature Oxford University
- Wolfe, Humbert (1886-1940), poet and civil servant
- Wolfenden, John Frederick (1906-1985) Baron Wolfenden
- Woodford, Frances (b 1913), poet
- Wormald, Francis (1904-1972), palaeographer and historian
- Wren, Percival Christopher (1885-1941) Writer
- Wright, Sir Norman Charles (1900-1970) Knight, agriculturist
- Wykes, Alan (1914-1993), author
- Wyndham, Horace Cowley (1873-1970) Author
- Yeats, Jack Butler (1871-1957), author and illustrator
- Yeats, John Butler (1839-1922), artist
- Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939), poet and playwright
- Young, Andrew John (1885-1971) Canon of Chichester Poet
- Youngman, Nan (1906-1995) Artist
Diaries (14)
- Butler, Paul (fl 1843-1844) Oxford Undergraduate Naples, Italy
- Cade, Charlotte Mary (fl 1920-1929), horticulture student of Reading Reading, Berkshire
- Corley, Tony (fl c1990), local historian of Reading Reading, Berkshire
- Dale, Hilda (fl 1950-2000), scholar of French language and literature
- Duckham, Alec Narraway (fl 1945-1968), Professor of Agriculture
- Fletcher, John (fl 1960-2009), literary critic and translator
- Ford, Reginald W (b 1910), childhood memoir writer of Reading Reading, Berkshire
- Jones, Annabel (fl 1959-2003), writer
- Knowlson, James (fl c1970-2017), biographer of Samuel Beckett
- Mathews, Frank (fl 1900-2000), writer
- Porter, Norah Mary (fl 1918), philosophy student, University of Reading
- Rogers, Thomas (fl 1800-1900), Marchington Marchington, Staffordshire
- Waterhouse, Mary (1805-1880) Quaker
- Unnamed (fl 1854), diarist of London London
Families (21)
- Wingfield-Baker family of Orsett Hall Orsett Hall, Essex;Corringham, Essex;North Benfleet, Essex
- Biddell family of Playford Playford, Suffolk;Grundisburgh, Suffolk
- Hume-Campbell family, Earls of Marchmont Marchmont, Berwickshire
- Coleman family of Goss Hall Goss Hall, Kent
- Craven family, Earls of Craven Ashdown, Berkshire;Hamstead Marshall, Berkshire;Hassop, Derbyshire;Westminster, Middlesex;Combe Abbey, Warwickshire;Appletreewick, Yorkshire;Ulleskelf, Yorkshire
- Crofts family, baronets, of West Stow West Stow, Suffolk;Saxham, Suffolk
- Dixwell family, baronets, of Brome Brome, Kent;Barham, Kent;Broome, Kent;Folkestone, Kent;Terlingham, Kent
- Elliot family of South Milton South Milton, Devon;West Alvington, Devon
- Englefield family, baronets, of Wootton Bassett Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire;Englefield, Berkshire;Sunninghill, Berkshire;Aldenham, Hertfordshire;Shenley, Hertfordshire;Lenton, Lincolnshire;Osbournby, Lincolnshire;Spalding, Lincolnshire;Clerkenwell, Middlesex;Wharram-le-Street, Yorkshire
- Fleming family, Merrimoles estate, Nettlebed Nettlebed, Oxfordshire
- Grenville, family, Dukes of Buckingham Shaw, Berkshire;Biddlesden, Buckinghamshire;Dorton, Buckinghamshire;Foscott, Buckinghamshire;Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire;Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire;Stowe, Buckinghamshire;Westbury, Buckinghamshire;Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire;Mevagissey, Cornwall;St Mawes, Cornwall;Crich, Derbyshire;Eyam, Derbyshire;Tarrant Gunville, Dorset;Tarrant Rushton, Dorset;Bocking, Essex;Gosfield, Essex;Adlestrop, Gloucestershire;Longborough, Gloucestershire;Andover, Hampshire;Avington, Hampshire;Hope, Jamaica;East Wellow, Hampshire;Wilton, Herefordshire;Godmersham, Kent;Lutterworth, Leicestershire;Middleton, Jamaica;Canons Park, Middlesex;Edmonton, Middlesex;Enfield, Middlesex;Little Stanmore, Middlesex;Stanmore, Middlesex;Westminster, Middlesex;Whetstone, Middlesex;Wappenham, Northamptonshire;Whittlebury, Northamptonshire;Finmere, Oxfordshire;Kidlington, Oxfordshire;Keynsham, Somerset;Wedmore, Somerset;Steyning, Sussex;Burton Dassett, Warwickshire;West Wellow, Wiltshire;Bedale, Yorkshire;Boughrood, Radnorshire;Llanstephen, Radnorshire;Auchlyne, Perthshire;Villierstown, County Waterford
- Hall family, baronets, of Dunglass Dunglass, East Lothian
- Shaw-Lefevre family, Barons Eversley Heckfield, Hampshire;Burley, Hampshire;Putham, Hampshire
- Mason family of Eynsham Hall Eynsham Hall, Oxfordshire
- Newman family of Bottisham Bottisham, Cambridgeshire
- Perkins family of Ufton Court Ufton Court, Berkshire;Rochford, Essex;Bathampton, Wiltshire;Hanging Langford, Wiltshire
- Smith family, Viscounts Hambleden Hambleden, Buckinghamshire;Culham, Berkshire;Remenham, Berkshire;Greenlands, Buckinghamshire;Moreton Hampstead, Devon;Silverton, Devon;Rowe, Devon;Oxhey, Hertfordshire;Wiggenhall, Hertfordshire;Hundon, Suffolk;Thurlow, Suffolk;Wrattling, Suffolk
- Ward family of Chilton Foliat Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire;Great Shefford, Berkshire;Hungerford, Berkshire
- Wellesley family, Dukes of Wellington Stratfield Saye, Hampshire;Standon, Hertfordshire;Hilborough, Norfolk;Cropredy, Oxfordshire
- Whitmore family of Orsett Hall Orsett, Essex
- Wyche family and Newcome family of Hockwold Hockwold, Norfolk
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (14)
- NRA 41566 Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, MP: corresp and papers
- NRA 23673 Samuel Beckett collection
- NRA 5695 G Bell & Sons Ltd, publishers, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 17339 Bowes & Bowes (Cambridge) Ltd, booksellers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43255 William Macbride Childs, historian: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 31556 Robert William Ditchburn, physicist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 16751 Italian Refugees' Relief Committee link to online catalogue
- NRA 14226 Mason family of Eynsham Hall, Oxon: family and estate papers
- NRA 42337 Perkins family of Ufton Court: deeds and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38805 Richard Rado, mathematician: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 14186 Reading University Library: manuscript collections
- NRA 40216 George William Series, physicist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 4812 Smith family, Viscounts Hambleden: family and business papers incl WH Smith corresp and papers
- NRA 44788 FW Woolworth & Co Ltd, department store, London
Accessions
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