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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

Green / Templeton

Harris Manchester

Hertford

• VCH

Jesus

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

Kellogg

Keble

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

LMH

• VCH

Linacre

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

Mansfield

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 Antony's

St Catz

• VCH

St Cross

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

Wolfson

Worcester

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

• 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

Oxford Union