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.

Books

 * Archive.org has lots of out of copyright books relating to Oxford

Photographs and images

 * Flickr 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 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)

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)
 * 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

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 (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
 * Bodleian - VCH
 * Clarendon Building - VCH
 * Libraries - "Some Oxford Libraries" by Strickland Gibson (1914)
 * Rad Cam - VCH
 * Sheldonian - VCH
 * University Press - VCH
 * Other buildings - VCH

Parks and gardens

 * Botanic garden - VCH

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"

University records

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

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
 * 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; )
 * Histories
 * "The colleges of Oxford: their history and traditions. XXI chapters contributed by members of the colleges" (1891)
 * A group of college histories was published in 1899/1900 by F.E. Robinson & Co.
 * Libraries
 * "Some Oxford Libraries" by Strickland Gibson (1914)

All Souls

 * Robertson (1899) "All Souls College"
 * VCH

Balliol

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

Brasenose

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

Christ Church

 * VCH

Corpus Christ

 * VCH

Exeter

 * Stride (1900) "Exeter College"
 * VCH

Hertford

 * VCH

Jesus

 * Hardy (1899), "Jesus College"
 * Baker (1971), "Jesus College 1571-1971" (User:Bencherlite has a copy)
 * VCH

Keble

 * VCH
 * "Keble Past and Present" (Third Millennium Publishing)

LMH

 * VCH

Lincoln

 * Green (1977) "The Commonwealth of Lincoln College 1427–1977"
 * VCH

Magdalen

 * Wilson (1899) "Magdalen College"
 * Brockliss, ed. "Magdalen College, Oxford: A History" (published for the 550th anniversary)
 * VCH

Merton

 * Henderson (1899) "Merton College"
 * VCH

New

 * VCH

Nuffield

 * VCH

Oriel

 * Rannie (1900) "Oriel College"
 * VCH

Pembroke

 * Macleane (1900) "Pembroke College"
 * VCH

Queen's

 * VCH

St Anne's

 * VCH

St Catz

 * VCH

St Edmund Hall

 * VCH

St Hilda's

 * VCH

St Hugh's

 * VCH

St John's

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

St Peter's

 * VCH

Somerville

 * VCH

Trinity

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

University

 * VCH
 * Darwall-Smith (2008) "A History of University College, Oxford"

Wadham

 * VCH

Worcester

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


 * VCH

PPHs

 * Campion - VCH
 * St Benet's - VCH

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

General

 * "Oxford Illustrated" (1902)