Guides to other sources
Secondary sources
For answers to broad-ranging questions about the University as a whole, and its development, the best sources of information are published works. There are a number of histories available: the following are just a selection of what has been published.
- The University of Oxford: A Brief History by Laurence Brockliss (2019)
- The University of Oxford: A History by LWB Brockliss (2017)
- The Encyclopaedia of Oxford edited by C Hibbert and E Hibbert (1988)
- Oxford by Felix Markham (1967)
- The Illustrated History of Oxford University edited by J Prest (1993)
- A History of Oxford University by VHH Green (1974)
- History of the University of Oxford published by Oxford University Press
- Volume 1: The Early Oxford Schools edited by JI Catto (1984)
- Volume 2: Later Medieval Oxford edited by JI Catto and TAR Evans (1992)
- Volume 3: The Collegiate University edited by J McConica (1986)
- Volume 4: Seventeenth-Century Oxford edited by N Tyacke (1997)
- Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century edited by LS Sutherland and LG Mitchell (1986)
- Volume 6: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 1, edited by MG Brock and MC Curthoys (1997)
- Volume 7: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 2, edited by MG Brock and MC Curthoys (2000)
- Volume 8: The Twentieth Century edited by B Harrison (1994)
- A History of the University of Oxford by CE Mallet:
- Volume I: The Mediaeval University (1924)
- Volume II: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1924)
- Volume III: Modern Oxford (1927)
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