Oxford History

The High

Cornmarket

Broad Street

St Giles

George Street

Holywell and Longwall

History on the streets of Oxford

Oxford inscriptions, parish marks, wayside stones, telephone kiosks, war memorials, and postboxes, and its street names and numbers

Oxford’s Medieval City Wall

Follow the city wall from the Castle to the North Gate (via George Street), then to the East Gate (via Broad Street, the Turf Tavern, and New College), ending at the West Gate

Headington and Marston

A large section, including history of Headington’s pubs, schools, shops, and large houses, with reminiscences and a section on well-known Headington people of the past:

• Headington history

A smaller section containing old descriptions of Marston, a history of its listed buildings, and some of its famous people:

• Marston history

First World War dead: biographies

• St Margaret’s Church, north Oxford
  
• St Leonard’s Church, Sunningwell
• St Peter’s Church, Wootton
  
• Headington & Marston
  

Oxford people

• Mayors of Oxford
  A brief biography of every Mayor of Oxford from the thirteenth century to 1962, and a list of all Lord Mayors from 1962 to the present

• Lists of Oxford people
  Oxford people from the Window Tax of 1696 to Gardner’s Directory of 1852, including the Lords Lieutenant of Oxfordshire to the present day

• Bishops of Oxford
  A list of all the Bishops of Oxford

• Some Oxford medical men, 1621–1850
  Lists of Oxford’s medical men up to the mid-nineteenth century, with some full biographies: Regius Professors of Medicine, Physicians, Surgeons, Apothecaries, and Dentists

Oxford: Small sections

• Floods in Oxford
• Burials in Oxford
• Old postcards and prints of Oxford
• Some Oxford schools
• How the Oxford census was conducted
• Cholera in Oxford in the nineteenth century

Oxfordshire

• The Hundreds of Oxfordshire
• Old postcards of Oxfordshire

Commercial break

• Old television adverts, 1955–1985