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Below is a complete list of all the volumes published by the ORS between 1919 and 2024.  Volumes 1 to 71 are free to download, volumes 72 onwards are available to members only, by logging into the Member Area of the website.   You can join by clicking here.

Volume Title Year Download / Buy
1 The Chantry certificates and The Edwardian inventories of church goods, edited by Rose Graham 1919
2 Parochial Collections, Part 1 made by Anthony Wood and Richard Rawlinson, edited by F N Davis 1920
3 Newington Longeville charters, edited by H E Salter 1921
4 Parochial Collections, Part 2 made by Anthony Wood and Richard Rawlinson, edited by F N Davis 1922
5 Glympton : the history of an Oxfordshire manor, edited by Herbert Barnett 1923
6 Churchwardens’ accounts of Marston, Spelsbury, Pyrton, edited by F W Weaver and G N Clark 1924
7 The early history of Mapledurham, edited by A H Cooke 1925
8 Adderbury “rectoria”: the manor at Adderbury belonging to New College, Oxford : the building of the chancel, 1408–1418: account rolls, deeds and court rolls, edited by T F Hobson 1926
9 The manors and advowson of Great Rollright, edited by Reginald W Jeffery 1927
10 The churchwardens’ presentments in the Oxfordshire peculiars of Dorchester, Thame, and Banbury, edited by Sidney A Peyton 1928
11 Parochial Collections, Part 3 made by Anthony Wood and Richard Rawlinson, edited by F N Davis 1929
12 The feet of fines for Oxfordshire 1195–1291, edited by H E Salter 1930
13 A collection of charters relating to Goring, Streatley and the neighbourhood, 1181–1546, preserved in the Bodleian Library, edited by T R Gambier-Parry 1931
14 A collection of charters relating to Goring, Streatley and the neighbourhood, 1181–1546, preserved in the Bodleian Library, edited by T R Gambier-Parry 1932
15 Saxon Oxfordshire: charters and ancient highways, edited by G B Grundy 1933
16 Oxfordshire justices of the peace in the seventeenth century, edited by Mary Sturge Gretton 1934
17 The history of Dean and Chalford, edited by M D Lobel 1935
18 Eynsham under the monks, edited by Sir Edmund Chambers 1936
19 The Sandford cartulary, edited by Agnes M Leys 1938
20 Tusmore papers, edited by L G Wickham Legg 1939
21 Hearth tax returns: Oxfordshire 1665, edited by Maureen M B Weinstock 1940
22 The Sandford cartulary, edited by Agnes M Leys 1941
23 The Archdeacon’s court: Liber actorum 1584, edited by E R Brinkworth 1942
24 The Archdeacon’s court: Liber actorum 1584, edited by E R Brinkworth 1946
25 The Thame cartulary, edited by H E Salter 1947
26 The Thame cartulary, edited by H E Salter 1948
27 The progress notes of Warden Woodward round the Oxfordshire estates of New College, Oxford, 1659–1675, edited by R L Rickard 1949
28 The church bells of Oxfordshire, edited by Frederick Sharpe 1949
29 Journal of Sir Samuel Luke, edited by I G Phillip 1950
30 The church bells of Oxfordshire, edited by Frederick Sharpe 1951
31 Journal of Sir Samuel Luke, edited by I G Phillip 1951
32 The church bells of Oxfordshire, edited by Frederick Sharpe 1952
33 Journal of Sir Samuel Luke, edited by I G Phillip 1953
34 The church bells of Oxfordshire, edited by Frederick Sharpe 1953
35 Bishop Wilberforce’s visitation returns for the Archdeaconry of Oxford in the year 1854, edited by E P Baker 1954
36 Oxfordshire protestation returns 1641–2, edited by Christopher S A Dobson (Please see Volume 59 for the updated version) 1955
37 Wheatley records 956–1956, edited by W O Hassall 1956
38 Articles of enquiry addressed to the clergy of the diocese of Oxford at the primary visitation of Dr Thomas Secker 1738, edited by H A Lloyd Jukes 1957
39 Some Oxfordshire wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1393–1510, edited by J R H Weaver and A Beardwood 1958
40 Index to wills proved in the Peculiar Court of Banbury, 1542–1858, and Custumal (1391) and Bye-laws (1386–1540) of the Manor of Islip, edited by J S W Gibson and Barbara F Harvey 1959
41 Henley Borough records: Assembly books i-iv, 1395–1543, edited by P M Briers 1960
42 The papers of Captain Henry Stevens, waggon-mastergeneral to King Charles I, edited by Margaret Toynbee 1961
43 The Royalist ordnance papers 1642–1646, edited by Ian Roy 1964
44 Household and farm inventories in Oxfordshire 1550–1590, edited by M A Havinden 1965
45 Index of persons in Oxfordshire deeds acquired by the Bodleian Library 1878–1963, edited by W O Hassall 1966
46 Oxfordshire hundred rolls of Bampton and Witney Borough 1279, edited by T Stone and P Hyde 1969
47 The letter-books of Samuel Wilberforce 1843–68, edited by R K Pugh 1970
48 Agricultural trade unionism in Oxfordshire 1872–81, edited by Pamela Horn 1974
49 The Royalist ordnance papers 1642–1646, edited by Ian Roy 1975
50 Manorial records of Cuxham, Oxfordshire, circa 1200–1359, edited by P D A Harvey 1976
51 Village education in nineteenth-century Oxfordshire, incorporating the Whitchurch school log book 1868–93, edited by Pamela Horn 1978
52 Bishop Fell and nonconformity – visitation documents from the Oxford diocese 1682–83, edited by Mary Clapinson 1980
53 Oxfordshire sessions of the peace in the reign of Richard II, edited by Elisabeth G Kimball 1983
54 Calendar of the court books of the borough of Witney 1538–1610, edited by James L Bolton and Marjorie M Maslen 1985
55 Church and chapel in Oxfordshire 1851 – the return of the census of religious worship, edited by Kate Tiller 1987
56 The Oxfordshire Eyre 1241, edited by Janet Cooper 1989
57 The correspondence of Thomas Secker, Bishop of Oxford 1737–58, edited by A P Jenkins 1991
58 Woodstock chamberlains’ accounts 1609–50, edited by Marjorie Maslen 1993
59 Oxfordshire and North Berkshire Protestation Returns and tax assessments 1641–42, edited by Jeremy Gibson 1994
60 The Oxfordshire Muster Rolls, 1539, 1542 and 1569, edited by Peter C Beauchamp 1996
61 Index to the probate records of the Courts of the Bishop and Archdeacon of Oxford, 1733–1857, and of the Oxfordshire Peculiars, 1547–1856, edited by D M Barratt, Joan Howard-Drake and Mark Priddey 1997
62 The Brightwell parish diaries, edited by Mark Spurrell 1998
63 Calendar of the Court Books of the Borough of New Woodstock 1588–1595, edited by Royston F Taylor 2002
64 Oxfordshire Forests 1246–1609, edited by Beryl Schumer 2002
65 Calendar of the Court Books of the Borough of New Woodstock 1607–1622, edited by Royston F Taylor, Mary Hodges et al 2007
66 The diocese Books of Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford 1845–1869, edited by Ronald and Margaret Pugh 2008
67 An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire, edited by Kate Tiller and Giles Darkes (Out of print, a second edition is in preparation) 2010
68 Oxfordshire Friendly Societies 1750–1918, edite by Shaun Morley 2011
69 The Life and Times of a Charlbury Quaker – the Journals of William Jones 1784–1818, edited by Hannah Jones 2014
70 Wood’s Radley College Diary 1855–1861, edited by Mark Spurrell 2016
71 Records of Holton Park Girls’ Grammar School 1948–1972, edited by Marilyn Yurdan 2017
72 A Vicar’s Wife in Oxford, 1938–1943, The Diary of Madge Martin, edited by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson 2018
73 The Parish in Wartime. Bishop Gore’s Visitations of Oxfordshire 1914 and 1918, edited by Mark Smith 2019
74 Mediaeval Inscriptions. The Epigraphy of the City of Oxford, edited by Jerome Bertram 2020
75 From Country House Catholicism to City Church: The Registers of the Oxford Catholic Mission 1700–1875, edited by Tony Hadland 2023
76 Methodism in Victorian Oxford: The Oxford Wesleyan Local Preachers’ Book 1830–1902, edited by Martin Wellings 2023
77 Mediaeval Inscriptions. The Epigraphy of the County of Oxfordshire, edited by Elizabeth Gemmill and Jerome Bertram 2024

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