Records of the Oxford Canning Club

Collection Level Description: Records of the Oxford Canning Club

Reference: Dep. c. 724-30, d. 781-9, e. 334-5
Title: Records of the Oxford Canning Club
Dates of Creation: 1882-1987
Extent: 18 shelfmarks

Language of Material: English

Administrative/Biographical History

The Oxford Canning Club, a university club to promote and discuss Tory principles, was founded in 1861.

Scope and Content

The records include an incomplete run of minute-books, with some correspondence and printed papers.

Administrative Information

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The papers were deposited by the secretary of the Club in 1980 and 1987.

Access Conditions

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

Further Information

Finding Aids

A full description is available in the Library.

Related Units of Description

See also the Papers of the Oxford Canning Club (Dep. b. 251, c. 782-3, e. 382). For further correspondence relating to the annual dinner of the Oxford Canning and Chatham Clubs, 1870-1954 and Canning Club committee accounts, 1883-1951, see MSS. Top. Oxon. c. 666-7, d. 733.

Access Points

Universities and colleges | Great Britain | Societies

Canning Club, Oxford

University of Oxford

Great Britain | Politics and government

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