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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 edit

Books edit

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

Photographs and images edit

  • 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 edit

History edit

  • 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 edit

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 edit

  • Botanic garden - VCH [16]

People edit

Foster edit

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

University records edit

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

The Colleges edit

General resources edit

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 edit

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

Balliol edit

Brasenose edit

Christ Church edit

Corpus Christ edit

Exeter edit

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

Green / Templeton edit

Harris Manchester edit

Hertford edit

Jesus edit

Kellogg edit

Keble edit

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

LMH edit

Linacre edit

Lincoln edit

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

Magdalen edit

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

Mansfield edit

Merton edit

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

New edit

Nuffield edit

Oriel edit

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

Pembroke edit

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

Queen's edit

St Anne's edit

St Antony's edit

St Catz edit

St Cross edit

St Edmund Hall edit

St Hilda's edit

St Hugh's edit

St John's edit

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

St Peter's edit

Somerville edit

Trinity edit

University edit

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

Wadham edit

Wolfson edit

Worcester edit

PPHs edit

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

Sport and leisure edit

Rowing edit

  • "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]

Oxford Union edit

General edit

  • "Oxford Illustrated" (1902) [64]
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