Sources of historical information about Oxford and Oxfordshire
Bodleian Libraries – Oxfordshire documents
The Bodleian Libraries in Oxford hold an extensive collection of historic documents relating to Oxfordshire. Click on the link above for a searchable index to these holdings. Information about how to get a reader’s card so that you can view documents held in the Bodleian is here.
Bodleian Libraries – list of estate and parish maps (including Oxfordshire) up to 1850
Bodleian Libraries – Local Views Index
Oxford history – Stephanie Jenkins
Oxford suburbs 1800-2001 (Your house, my house)
Oxford workhouses on Peter Higginbotham’s workhouse website
St Sepulchre’s Cemetery, Jericho, Oxford
Street and trade directories, Oxfordshire
Victoria County History (VCH) – Oxford
Oxford and Oxfordshire historians
Jess Worth (aka Lady Gargoyle) – Oxford tour guide
Joanna Inness – Life in the [Oxford] Floodplain
Julie Ann Godson – Oxfordshire historian and writer
Mark Davies – Oxfordshire historian, speaker, tour guide and writer
Maurice East – Oxford historian, speaker and tour guide
Oxford and Oxfordshire organisations concerned with history
Oxford college archives consortium
Oxford Preservation Trust (OPT)
Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society (OAHS)
Oxfordshire Buildings Record (OBR)
Oxfordshire History Centre (OHC)
Oxfordshire Local History Association (OLHA)
Oxfordshire Record Society (ORS)
Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust (SOFO)
Victoria County History (VCH) – Oxfordshire
Sources of historical information about Britain
Alan Godfrey – old ordnance survey maps
Britain from above – arial photographs, 1919-1953
Grace’s Guide – British industrial history
Heritage Gateway – 40,000 architectural and archaeological records
Historic England – listed buildings
Historic England – images collection
Historic Environment Image Resource
Vision of Britain 1801-2001 – maps, statistics & historical descriptions
National organisations concerned with history
British Association for Local History