Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Oxford/Resources

An incomplete list of internet-based / published resources that editors of articles about the University of Oxford or people associated with it may find useful. Please add anything that you think may be of interest.

Useful websites

Books

• Archive.org [1] has lots of out of copyright books relating to Oxford

Photographs and images

• Flickr [2] has many useful photos that can be uploaded to Commons. Some Flickr users will agree to relicense copyright photos to a suitable Creative Commons licence if asked nicely.
• Geograph [3] freely-licensed images of buildings available for uploading to Commons (the images even have a pre-filled template with the necessary information)
• Google images - e.g. searching for "Foo College, Oxford" + engravings will often bring up some out-of-copyright engravings that can be uploaded to Commons with a {{PD-Art}} tag.
• Images of England, from English Heritage - a searchable database of listed buildings. NB one college may have a number of entries, e.g. Jesus has 11 (each of the two main quads has either four or five different entries) [4]

The University

History

• A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3 - The University of Oxford (1954) (the Victoria County History, or "VCH"; individual chapters on buildings and colleges are listed below) [5]
• A History of the University of Oxford - 8 volumes, modern publication, dealing with the university and the colleges
  • Volume IV (The Seventeenth Century) is extensively previewable at Google Books [6]

Buildings and architecture

General

• "The Buildings of England – Oxfordshire" (1974) by Nikolaus Pevsner. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300096399. (User:Bencherlite has a copy)
• "Oxford: An architectural history" (1998) by Geoffrey Tyack. OUP ISBN 9780198174233. Extensively previewed at Google Books [7] (User:Bencherlite has a copy)
• "Oxford Stone" W. J. Arkell (1947) (User:Bencherlite has a copy)
• "Oxford Buildings From Medieval to Modern: Exteriors" David Hinton (1972) (User:Bencherlite has a copy)
• "New Oxford" OU Design Society (1961) (User:Bencherlite has a copy)

Specific buildings

• Ashmolean - VCH [8]
• Bodleian - VCH [9]
• Clarendon Building - VCH [10]
• Libraries - "Some Oxford Libraries" by Strickland Gibson (1914) [11]
• Rad Cam - VCH [12]
• Sheldonian - VCH [13]
• University Press - VCH [14]
• Other buildings - VCH [15]

Parks and gardens

• Botanic garden - VCH [16]

People

Foster

Alumni Oxonienses

• Vol 1: 1500 to 1714
  • A to D
  • E to K
  • L to R
  • S to Z
• Vol 2: 1715 to 1886
  • A to D
  • E to K
  • L to R
  • S to Z

Other works

• "Oxford men & their colleges. Illustrated with portraits & views. Together with the matriculation register, 1880-1892" [17]

University records

• "Oxford honours, 1220-1894, being an alphabetical register of distinctions conferred by the University of Oxford from the earliest times" (1894) [18]

The Colleges

General resources

Architecture

• "The Buildings of England – Oxfordshire" (1974) by Nikolaus Pevsner. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300096399.
• "Oxford: An architectural history" (1998) by Geoffrey Tyack. OUP ISBN 9780198174233. Extensively previewed at Google Books [19]

Heraldry

• "Notes on the Heraldry of the Oxford Colleges" by Perceval Landon (in two sections of Archaeologia Oxoniensis 1892-1895: p. 143 onwards; p. 195 onwards; [20])

Histories

• "The colleges of Oxford: their history and traditions. XXI chapters contributed by members of the colleges" (1891) [21]
• A group of college histories was published in 1899/1900 by F.E. Robinson & Co.

Libraries

• "Some Oxford Libraries" by Strickland Gibson (1914) [22]

All Souls

• Robertson (1899) "All Souls College" [23]
• VCH [24]

Balliol

• Davis (1899) "Balliol College" [25]
• VCH [26]
• Jones (1988, rev. 2005) "Balliol College: A History" Google Books preview of the 2nd revised edition

Brasenose

• VCH [27]
• Crook (2008) "Brasenose: The Biography of an Oxford College" (User:Jonathan A Jones has a copy)

Christ Church

• VCH [28]

Corpus Christ

• VCH [29]

Exeter

• Stride (1900) "Exeter College" [30]
• VCH [31]

Hertford

• VCH [32]

Jesus

• Hardy (1899), "Jesus College" [33]
• Baker (1971), "Jesus College 1571-1971" (User:Bencherlite has a copy)
• VCH [34]

Keble

• VCH [35]
• "Keble Past and Present" (Third Millennium Publishing)

LMH

• VCH [36]

Lincoln

• Green (1977) "The Commonwealth of Lincoln College 1427–1977"
• VCH [37]

Magdalen

• Wilson (1899) "Magdalen College" [38]
• Brockliss, ed. "Magdalen College, Oxford: A History" (published for the 550th anniversary)
• VCH [39]

Merton

• Henderson (1899) "Merton College" [40]
• VCH [41]

New

• VCH [42]

Nuffield

• VCH [43]

Oriel

• Rannie (1900) "Oriel College" [44]
• VCH [45]

Pembroke

• Macleane (1900) "Pembroke College" [46]
• VCH [47]

Queen's

• VCH [48]

St Anne's

• VCH [49]

St Catz

• VCH [50]

St Edmund Hall

• VCH [51]

St Hilda's

• VCH [52]

St Hugh's

• VCH [53]

St John's

• VCH [54]
• Tyack "Modern Architecture in an Oxford College: St. John's College 1945-2005" (User:Bencherlite has a copy)

St Peter's

• VCH [55]

Somerville

• VCH [56]

Trinity

• Hopkins "Trinity: 450 Years of an Oxford College Community" (2005) Google Books
• VCH [57]
• College Newsletters / Reports

University

• VCH [58]
• Darwall-Smith (2008) "A History of University College, Oxford"

Wadham

• VCH [59]

Worcester

• Daniel / Barker "Worcester College" (1900) At archive.org: NYPL scan | University of California scan | University of Toronto scan

• VCH [60]

PPHs

• Campion - VCH [61]
• St Benet's - VCH [62]

Sport and leisure

Rowing

• "Oxford rowing; a history of boat-racing at Oxford from the earliest times, with a record of the races; compiled principally from official sources" (1900) by Sherwood [63]

General

• "Oxford Illustrated" (1902) [64]