OXFORD HISTORY

 
 

Oxford History


Oxford streets

Take a historical tour of every building in three ancient streets:

Street furniture

 

Oxford's “street furniture” (including wayside stones, telephone kiosks, war memorials, and postboxes), and its street names and numbers:

History on the streets of Oxford

Incomplete street sections: Cornmarket   and   Old postcards & prints

Headington and Marston

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

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

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
  • 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

Miscellaneous small sections

Oxfordshire

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© Stephanie Jenkins

 

Last updated: 24 February, 2008