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Businesses (77)
- A & C Black Ltd, publishers Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Adderbury Grounds Farm Adderbury, Oxfordshire
- AJ Valpy, publisher London
- Associated Book Publishers (UK) Ltd London
- Bailliere, Tindall & Cox Ltd, medical and scientific publishers London
- 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
- Chapman & Hall Ltd, publishers London
- Charles Elkin Mathews, bookseller and publisher London
- Chatto & Windus Ltd, publishers London
- Chiswick Press, publishers London
- Croom Helm Ltd, publishers Beckenham, Kent
- Crosby Lockwood & Co, 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
- E & F N Spon Ltd, publishers London
- Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd London
- Field Farm Burghfield, Berkshire
- Frank Duffy, architect
- Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, publishers London
- FW Woolworth & Co Ltd, department store London
- George Allen & Co, publishers London
- George Allen & Unwin Ltd, publishers London
- George Bell & Sons, publishers London
- Grove Farm Blackford, Somerset
- Harlequin Mills & Boon Ltd, publishers Richmond, Surrey
- Harvey Miller Publishing
- 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
- J & A Churchill, medical and scientific publishers London
- J Salmon Ltd, publishers and printers Sevenoaks, Kent
- John Payne, corn and oil mill owner Yorkshire and the Humber
- John Worthington, architect
- Jonathan Cape Ltd, publishers London
- JW Parker, Son & Bourn, publishers London
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, publishers London
- Ladybird Books Ltd, publishers Loughborough, Leicestershire
- London Typographical Designers Ltd London
- Longman Group Ltd, publishers London
- Luigi Giffone, architect
- Macmillan & Co Ltd, publishers London
- Merlin Press, publishers
- Methuen & Co Ltd, publishers London
- Norman Chambers, pencil manufacturer
- Old Moor, Boston Park and Brooke Farms Braithwaite, Yorkshire
- Peek Frean & Co Ltd, biscuit manufacturers London
- Peter Owen Ltd, publishers London
- Phoenix House Ltd, publishers London
- Pierson & Park Ltd, wholesale stationers Southwark, Surrey
- Pneumatic Despatch Co Ltd London
- Random House UK, publishers London
- Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, publishers London
- Samuel Woolcott, carpenter Topsham, Devon
- Secker & Warburg Ltd, publishers London
- Sir Richard Phillips, publisher and bookseller London
- Swan Sonnenschein & Co, publishers London
- Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, law publishers and booksellers London
- Tavistock Publications Ltd London
- The Forge Uffington, Berkshire
- The Manor Farm Barwell, Leicestershire
- Troika Publishers, London London
- Two Rivers Press Ltd, Reading Reading, Berkshire
- Unnamed farm, Mears Ashby Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire
- Virago Press Ltd London
- Westerham Press, London London
- WH Smith & Son Ltd, newsagents London
- Whiteknights Press, University of Reading Reading, Berkshire
- William Clowes & Sons Ltd, printers and publishers Beccles, Suffolk;London
- William Darton & Joseph Harvey, publishers London
- William Felix Riley, farmer Berkshire;Berkshire
Organisations (42)
- 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
- Ernest George White Society, vocal technique society
- 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
- The Whitefriars Club, dining club
- University College Reading, Officer's Training Corps Reading, Berkshire
- University Extension College, Reading, Central Athletic Club Reading, Berkshire
- University of Reading Reading, Berkshire
- University of Reading Boat Club Reading, Berkshire
- University of Reading Chaplaincy Reading, Berkshire
- University of Reading Drama Society Reading, Berkshire
- University of Reading Womens Club Reading, Berkshire
- University of Reading, Old Students' Association Reading, Berkshire
- Ure Museum, University of Reading Reading, Berkshire
- Whitefriars Club, London London
- Workers Educational Association: Reading branch Reading, Berkshire
- Working Party on Library and Book Trade Relations (LIBTRAD)
Persons (467)
- 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, (1925-2017), 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
- 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 and screenwriter
- 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
- Bax, Clifford, (1886-1962), author and playwright
- Baybars, Taner, (1936-2010), 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
- Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene, (1870-1953), poet and author
- Benson, Edward Frederic, (1867-1940), author
- Beresford, John Davys, (1873-1947), Author
- Betham-Edwards, Matilda Barbara, (1836-1919), writer
- Bibesco, Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, (1897-1945), novelist
- 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
- Brock, Henry Matthew, (1875-1960), Book Illustrator
- 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, (1936-2023), author
- Cadell, Thomas, (1742-1802), Publisher
- Calder-Marshall, Arthur, (1908-1992), Author
- 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, (1890-1976), 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
- 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
- Croft-Cooke, Rupert, (1903-1979), Author
- Crosland, Camilla Dufour, (1812-1895), writer
- Cruikshank, George, (1792-1878), artist and caricaturist
- Cunninghame Graham, Robert Bontine, (1852-1936), politician and author
- Currie, Lady Mary Montgomerie, (1843-1905), poet and novelist
- Curtis, Lionel George, (1872-1955), colonial historian
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, (1859-1925), Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, statesman
- Daiken, Leslie, (1912-1964), Irish socialist journalist and poet, writer on children's games and toys
- 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
- Day Lewis, Cecil, (1904-1972), poet
- de Bellaigue, Eric, (fl 1966-2014), publishing historian
- Deanesly, Margaret, (1885-1977), historian
- Dechevaux-Dumesnil, Suzanne, (1900-1989), writer and wife of Samuel Beckett
- 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
- Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, (b 1909), management theorist and author
- 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
- 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
- Follett, Mary Parker, (1868-1933), American author and sociologist
- Fort, Adrian, (fl 2000), author
- Fraser Darling, Sir Frank, (1903-1979), Knight, ecologist
- Fraser, Henry Malcolm, (1874-1970), author and beekeeper Wandsworth, Surrey
- 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
- Furse, Dame Katharine, (1875-1952), Director of WRNS and World Bureau of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
- Galbraith, Vivian Hunter, (1889-1976), historian
- 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
- Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, (1878-1972), American management theorist
- 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
- Grahame, Kenneth, (1859-1932), Author Secretary of the Bank of England
- Greene, Elaine, (1920-1995), literary agent New York, New York
- 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, (1931-2013), artist teacher and writer
- Harvey, Michael, (b 1931), Typographer
- Hasler, Charles, (1908-1992), graphic designer and typographer
- Hawkins, Herbert Leader, (1887-1968), geologist
- Hazeltine, Harold Dexter, (1871-1960), Professor of Law
- Heath-Stubbs, John Francis Alexander , (1918-2006), poet
- 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
- Jackson, Laura Riding, (1901-1991), American poet and literary critic
- 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
- Joyce, James Augustine, (1882-1941), poet, novelist and playwright
- Kantorowicz, Hermann, (1877-1940), Lecturer in Jurisprudence
- Kark, Nina Mary, (1925-2012), author
- 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), Lady Davies, Playwright and Author
- Kernahan, John Coulson, (1858-1943), writer
- Kerr, Philip Henry, (1882-1940), 11th Marquess of Lothian, statesman
- Kilham Roberts, Denys, (1903-1976), Writer Secretary General for Society of Authors
- 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
- Le Gallienne, Richard Thomas, (1866-1947), poet and essayist
- 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, John, (fl 1950-1995), Typographer
- Lewis, Wyndham, (1882-1957), 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
- 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, Sir John, (1838-1923), 1st 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, (1889-1974), author
- Origo, Dame Iris, (1902-1988), author
- 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
- 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, 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, Michael, (1902-1948), author and critic Bournemouth, Hampshire
- Robertson, Eileen Arnot, (1903-1961), 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 Jane, (1869-1955), author, journalist and Suffragist
- Sharp, William, (1855-1905), author and poet
- Shaw, Charlotte Frances, (1857-1943), political activist
- 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
- Smyth, Sir John George, (1893-1983), 1st Baronet Soldier and Politician
- 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
- Steuart-Denham, Sir James, (1712-1780), 7th Baronet, economist
- Strachey, Joan Pernel, (1876-1951), Principal of Newnham College Cambridge
- 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
- Tead, Ordway, (1891-1973), American management theorist, author and publisher
- Thompson, Edward, (1917-2001), Publisher and Editor
- Thurston, E Temple, (1879-1933), Author and Poet
- Tilbury, John, (b1936), musician
- 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, (1909-1993), Classical Scholar and Poet
- Turner, Walter James Redfern, (1889-1946), Author and Journalist
- Turnour, Edward, (1883-1962), 6th Earl Winterton
- Tyler, Cyril, (c1933-1999), professor and Vice Chancellor of University of Reading
- Upward, Edward Falaise, (1903-2009), Author
- Urwick, Lyndall Fownes, (1891-1983), management theorist
- Valpy, Abraham John, (1787-1854), Editor and Printer
- Van Der Post, Sir Laurens Jan, (1906-1996), Knight, author and traveller
- 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
- Whitby, Esther, (fl1958-2009), editor at Andre Deutsch Limited, publisher
- 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, Sir John Frederick, (1906-1985), Baron Wolfenden of Westcott
- Woodford, Frances, (b 1913), poet
- Wormald, Francis, (1904-1972), palaeographer and historian
- Worth, Katharine, (1922-2015), author and professor of drama and theatre Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
- 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)
- Annabel, (fl 1959-2003), writer
- Butler, Paul, Oxford Undergraduate Naples, Italy
- Cade, Charlotte Mary, (fl 1920-1929), horticulture student Reading, Berkshire
- Corley, Tony, (fl c1990), local historian 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 Reading, Berkshire
- 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 Marchington, Staffordshire
- Unnamed, (fl 1854), diarist London
- Waterhouse, Mary, (1805-1880), Quaker
Families (22)
- Biddell family of Playford Playford, Suffolk;Grundisburgh, Suffolk
- 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
- Hume-Campbell family, Earls of Marchmont Marchmont, Berwickshire
- 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
- Shaw-Lefevre family, Barons Eversley Heckfield, Hampshire;Burley, Hampshire;Putham, Hampshire
- 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
- Unwin family
- 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
- Wingfield-Baker family of Orsett Hall Orsett Hall, Essex;Corringham, Essex;North Benfleet, Essex
- Wyche family and Newcome family of Hockwold Hockwold, Norfolk
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (15)
- 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 43484 Lyndall Fownes Urwick, management theorist: corresp and papers
- NRA 44788 FW Woolworth & Co Ltd, department store, London
Accessions
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