Publications relating to Headington area
List of other published works on Headington & Marston
List of over fifty books and
articles about Headington
Including novels, poems, a play, and
biographies as well as historical studies
Books on Headington bought from Amazon
via the link on the right will help fund this site
Online books and articles
More and more older items are now being put online in their entirety. If you find one about Headington, please email the Webmaster.
- Cocke, James, “The Glory of God” in Ruth Gledhill (ed.), The Sixth Times Book of Best Sermons (2001) Prize-winning sermon by James Cocke has been Vicar of All Saints Church in Headington since 1957
- Harding, Samuel: “Headington Hill: A New Song” (c.1780). A poem about Headington on a single sheet in the Bodleian Library
- King, William, “The tragi-comedy of Joan of Headington”, in William King, Useful miscellanies (London, 1712). A ribald play about Headington’s most famous bawd
- National Geographic, May 2002 published a picture of the Headington Shark
- Victoria County History of Oxfordshire, Vol. IV (City of Oxford): this covers Headington and Marston passim after 1929
- Victoria County History of Oxfordshire, Vol. V (Bullingdon Hundred): this covers Headington (pp. 157–68) and Marston (pp. 214–22) in detail up to 1929
Headington Monthly Magazine
Headington Monthly Magazine is a free A5 magazine for Headington with a page for the free promotion of local non-commercial and charitable events.
Please e-mail Headington Monthly with your event by the 15th of the month preceding the date of the event. There is space for two or three lines: your text may be edited if it is too long.
Your Newsletter
Put your Headington or Marston notice or newsletter on line! Send it to the Webmaster as a Word attachment, and it will be converted to a PDF file for people to print out and read.
The following newsletters are published each month in Headington and Marston:
- Norman Arch (Parish of St Andrew’s, Headington)
- Marston Times (Parishes of St Nicholas, Marston and St Thomas of Canterbury, Elsfield)
Childhood memories of Barton
Roger Thomas,Tales of an Oxford Lad – A Barton Childhood 1942–1957 (Robert Boyd Publishing, 2010) costs £7.95 and is available at Pen to Paper (95 London Road), Barton Centre; the Spar Shop and Barton Chippy (Underhill Circus); and at Model World (The Roundway). It can also be ordered by telephone on 01993 703474.
- Oxford Mail, 1 July 2010: ”Budding author hooks up with old friends thanks to the Mail”
Headington Writing Group
In 2010 Headington Writing Group published Just Words, a collection of poems, science fiction, short stories and memories. It is on sale at CoCo Noir in Headington or email, with proceeds to Reading Quest, a local charity that helps children who struggle with the early stages of reading.
