A Lewis, August 1995
Historical Manuscripts Commission
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The Ashmolean Library.MV Taylor was born on 20 January 1881. She was educated at Queen's School, Chester and Somerville College, Oxford. Between 1923 and 1954 she was secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, becoming vice-president in 1954 and president in 1955. She was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1925 and was the first woman to hold the office of vice-president of the Society. She wrote numerous articles for various archaeological journals and was herself editor for many years of the Journal of Roman Studies. She also contributed material on Roman Britain to the Victoria County Histories.
Two boxes of MV Taylor's personal papers are housed at the Ashmolean. Each contains a number of envelopes with a wide selection of material - correspondence, reviews, rough MS notes, press cuttings, etc. The majority relate to the work of other scholars. The quantity of material in each envelope varies greatly; some have only one sheet of MS notes, others are much more substantial, containing for example a notebook or a series of letters. There is a brief pencil note on each envelope which describes the subject matter. The envelopes do not appear to be filed in any particular order and are not numbered.
The archives of the Journal of Roman Studies, also deposited in the Ashmolean, include a large amount of material relating to MV Taylor's editorship.
The following summary was produced as part of a survey by the Commission of the papers of British antiquaries and historians. The Commission is most grateful to Mr Brian McGregor and Dr John Taylor for their assistance.
Box A
1. Miscellaneous photographs of North Africa
2. Map of Roman Britain and the Iron Age
3. Haverfield; Romano-British Cornwall
4. Lanaway; Popular handbook of nine fortresses on Saxon shore
5. Corder; 1938, excavations at Elmswell
6. Codrington; Roman roads in Britain
7. Haverfield; Roman Leicester
8. Curle; Sir George MacDonald
9. Boumphrey; Along the Roman Roads
10. Chesters; Roman antiquities preserved in the Museum at Chesters
11. Davies; Roman mines in Europe
12. Durant; Journey into Roman Britain
13. Jones, H Stuart; The Roman Empire BC29 - AD476
14. Haverfield; Ancient Town Planning
15. Wheeler; Verulamium
16. May; Catalogue of Roman pottery in Colchester and Essex museums
17. Wheeler; Roman Wales
18. Haverfield; The Romanization of Roman Britain
19. Bruce, J Collingwood; Handbook to The Roman Wall (9th ed.), photographs
20. Ditto, 10th ed.
21. VCH - Kent, vol 3
22. Lehner; Das Provincial Museum in Bonn
23. Pietrageli; Musei Capitolini...
24. Yalouris; Classical sculptures on the Parthenon
25. Letter relating to Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society, 1951-52
26. Haverfield; Roman Leicester
27. Lawson; Schedule of the Roman remains of Chester
28. Letter relating to local antiquarian society
29. Two letters relating to archaeological research, 1902-60
30. Strong; Roman sculpture
31. Hawkes and Hull; Camulodunum
32. Richmond; Roman Britain
33. Fox; Offa's Dyke, 6th report
34. Whiting, Hawley and May; Report on excavations of a Roman cemetery in Kent
35. Ward, J; Roman era in Britain
36. Syme; Tacitus
37. Sandys; Latin epigraphy
38. Cumont; Mysteries of Mithia
39. Birley; Centenary pilgrimage of Hadrian's Wall
40. Pennant; picture
41. Tacitus
42. Green; [illegible] and the 2nd Legion
43. Heichelheim; Mildenhall Treasure II
44. Corder; 1937, excavations at Brough
45. Hartley; 1947-48, excavations at Heronbridge
46. Jones, H Stuart; Companion to Roman history
47. Kanovium; Excavation Committee - excavations on site of
48. Curle; A Roman frontier post and its people
49. JRS; Papers presented to HM Last, 1957
50. Postcard from 'DELH'
51. Hawkes and Richmond; The Roman occupation Pt II (Lincoln)
52. Loose notes concerning 'Recent Excavations on the Roman Forum' 1957
53. Printed notes (Transactions BGAS, vol 81, 1962); 'Romano-British sculpture from Dom'
54. Page; Romano-British Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire
55. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, London
56. 1951 Council for British Archaeology, Report
57. VCH - Oxfordshire, vol 1
58. Baradez; Fossatum Africae
59. Rostovtsev; History of the Ancient World
60. Hondius-Crane; The Temple of Nehalemnia at Dombury
61. VCH - Hertfordshire
62. Traill and Mann; Social England
63. Meates; Lullingstone Roman villa
64. Chester; Grosvenor Museum, catalogue of
65. Leeds; Celtic ornament in the [illegible]
66. Lugli; Roman antica
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1. Collingwood, RG, 1889-1943; correspondence relating to
2. Collingwood and Myres; Roman Britain and English settlements
3. Collingwood, RG; Archaeology of Roman Britain
4. Collingwood, RG; Autobiography
5. Postcards; Sweet Heart Abbey and Canterbury
6. Haverfield and Taylor; Romano-British Shropshire
7. Haverfield; Romano-British Worcestershire
8. Christy; Roman roads in Essex (2nd supplement)
9. Handbook of prehistoric archaeology of Britain
10. Oswald; Index of potters' stamps
11. Sullian; The Paris of the Romans
12. Sullian; Gallia
13. Society of Antiquaries; 1951, notes on the Society's history and its possessions
14. Atkinson; Report on excavations at Wroxeter
15. Haverfield; Bound volume of articles in Athenaeum
16. Haverfield; Military sites
17. Bell, Cottrill and Span; London Wall through 18 centuries
18. Boon; Roman Silchester
19. Cambridge Ancient History
20. Franjero; Britannia Romana
21. Martin and Steel; The Oxford region
22. MacDonald; Roman wall in Scotland
23. Meiggs; Roman Ostia
24. Miller; Roman occupation of South-West Scotland
25. Oldfather and Canter; Defeat of Varus and the German Frontier Policy of Augustus
26. Richmond; Huddersfield in Roman times
27. Miscellaneous correspondence and reviews relating to MI Rostovtsev
28. Haverfield; Roman Occupation of Britain
29. Kenyon; Excavation at the Jewry Wall site, Leicester.
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