Henley Town’s copy of its royal charter of 1568. Courtesy of Oxfordshire History Centre (ref. BOR/3/A/1/1).
The Society’s publications
Below is a complete list of all the volumes published by the ORS between 1919 and 2023. Italics indicate copies that are out of print; bold indicates copies that are in print and available direct from the Society; bold and with an asterisk indicates titles that are available to buy via Boydell & Brewer, which handles, via Wiley, the storage and sales of these volumes.
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- Volume 1: The Chantry certificates and The Edwardian inventories of church goods, edited by Graham Rose (1919)
- Volumes 2, 4, 11: Parochial collections made by Anthony Wood and Richard Rawlinson, edited by F N Davis (1920–9)
- Volume 3: Newington Longeville charters, edited by H E Salter (1921)
- Volume 5: Herbert Barnett Glympton : the history of an Oxfordshire manor, edited by Herbert Barnett (1923)
- Volume 6: Churchwardens’ accounts of Marston, Spelsbury, Pyrton, edited by F W Weaver and G N Clark (1924)
- Volume 7: The early history of Mapledurham, edited by A H Cooke (1925)
- Volume 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)
- Volume 9: The manors and advowson of Great Rollright, edited by Reginald W Jeffery (1927)
- Volume 10: The churchwardens’ presentments in the Oxfordshire peculiars of Dorchester, Thame, and Banbury, edited by Sidney A Peyton (1928)
- Volume 12: The feet of fines for Oxfordshire 1195–1291, edited by H E Salter (1930)
- Volumes 13 and 14: A collection of charters relating to Goring, Streatley and the neighborhood, 1181–1546, preserved in the Bodleian Library, edited by T R Gambier-Parry (1931–2)
- Volume 15: Saxon Oxfordshire: charters and ancient highways, edited by G B Grundy (1933)
- Volume 16: Oxfordshire justices of the peace in the seventeenth century, edited by Mary Sturge Gretton (1934)
- Volume 17: The history of Dean and Chalford, edited by M D Lobel (1935)
- Volume 18: Eynsham under the monks, edited by Edmund Chambers (1936)
- Volumes 19 and 22: The Sandford cartulary, edited by Agnes M Leys (1938–41)
- Volume 20: Tusmore papers, edited by L G Wickham Legg (1939)
- Volume 21: Hearth tax returns: Oxfordshire 1665, edited by Maureen M B Weinstock (1940)
- Volumes 23 and 24: The Archdeacon’s court: Liber actorum 1584, edited by E R Brinkworth (1942–6)
- Volumes 25 and 26: The Thame cartulary, edited by H E Salter (1947–8)
- Volume 27: The progress notes of Warden Woodward round the Oxfordshire estates of New College, Oxford, 1659–1675, edited by R L Rickard (1949)
- Volumes 28, 30, 32 and 34: The church bells of Oxfordshire, edited by Frederick Sharpe (1949–53)
- Volumes 29, 31 and 33: Journal of Sir Samuel Luke, edited by I G Phillip (1950–3)
- Volume 35: Bishop Wilberforce’s visitation returns for the Archdeaconry of Oxford in the year 1854, edited by E P Baker (1954)
- Volume 36: Oxfordshire protestation returns 1641–2, edited by Christopher S A Dobson (1955)
- Volume 37: Wheatley records 956–1956, edited by W O Hassall (1956)
- Volume 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)
- Volume 39: Some Oxfordshire wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1393–1510, edited by J R H Weaver and A Beardwood (1958)
- Volume 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)
- Volume 41: Henley Borough records: Assembly books i-iv, 1395–1543, edited by P M Briers (1960)
- Volume 42: The papers of Captain Henry Stevens, waggon-mastergeneral to King Charles I, edited by Margaret Toynbee (1961)
- Volumes 43 and 49: The Royalist ordnance papers 1642–1646, edited by Ian Roy (1964–75)
- Volume 44: Household and farm inventories in Oxfordshire 1550–1590, edited by M A Havinden (1965)
- Volume 45: Index of persons in Oxfordshire deeds acquired by the Bodleian Library 1878–1963, edited by W O Hassall (1966)
- Volume 46: Oxfordshire hundred rolls of Bampton and Witney Borough 1279, edited by T Stone and P Hyde (1969)
- Volume 47: The letter-books of Samuel Wilberforce 1843–68, edited by R K Pugh (1970)
- Volume 48: Agricultural trade unionism in Oxfordshire 1872–81, edited by Pamela Horn (1974)
- Volume 50: Manorial records of Cuxham, Oxfordshire, circa 1200–1359, edited by P D A Harvey (1976)
- Volume 51: Village education in nineteenth-century Oxfordshire, incorporating the Whitchurch school log book 1868–93, edited by Pamela Horn (1978)
- Volume 52: Bishop Fell and nonconformity – visitation documents from the Oxford diocese 1682–83, edited by Mary Clapinson (1980)
- Volume 53: Oxfordshire sessions of the peace in the reign of Richard II, edited by Elisabeth G Kimball (1983)
- Volume 54: Calendar of the court books of the borough of Witney 1538–1610, edited by James L Bolton and Marjorie M Maslen (1985)
- Volume 55: Church and chapel in Oxfordshire 1851 – the return of the census of religious worship, edited by Kate Tiller (1987)
- Volume 56: The Oxfordshire Eyre 1241, edited by Janet Cooper (1989)
- Volume 57: The correspondence of Thomas Secker, Bishop of Oxford 1737–58, edited by A P Jenkins (1991)
- Volume 58: Woodstock chamberlains’ accounts 1609–50, edited by Marjorie Maslen (1993)
- Volume 59: Oxfordshire and North Berkshire Protestation Returns and tax assessments 1641–42, edited by Jeremy Gibson (1994)
- Volume 60: The Oxfordshire Muster Rolls, 1539, 1542 and 1569, edited by Peter C Beauchamp (1996)
- Volume 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)
- Volume 62: The Brightwell parish diaries, edited by Mark Spurrell (1998)
- Volume 63: Calendar of the Court Books of the Borough of New Woodstock 1588–1595, edited by Royston F Taylor (2002)
- Volume 64: Oxfordshire Forests 1246–1609, edited by Beryl Schumer (2002)
- Volume 65: Calendar of the Court Books of the Borough of New Woodstock 1607–1622, edited by Royston F Taylor, Mary Hodges et al (2007)
- Volume 66: The diocese Books of Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford 1845–1869, edited by Ronald and Margaret Pugh (2008)
- Volume 67: An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire, edited by Kate Tiller and Giles Darkes (2010)
- Volume 68: Oxfordshire Friendly Societies 1750–1918, edite by Shaun Morley (2011)
- Volume 69: The Life and Times of a Charlbury Quaker – the Journals of William Jones 1784–1818, edited by Hannah Jones (2014)
- Volume 70: Wood’s Radley College Diary 1855–1861, edited by Mark Spurrell (2016)
- Volume 71: Records of Holton Park Girls’ Grammar School 1948–1972, edited by Marilyn Yurdan (2017)
- Volume 72*: A Vicar’s Wife in Oxford, 1938–1943, The Diary of Madge Martin, edited by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson (2018)
- Volume 73*: The Parish in Wartime. Bishop Gore’s Visitations of Oxfordshire 1914 and 1918, edited by Mark Smith (2019)
- Volume 74*: Mediaeval Inscriptions. The Epigraphy of the City of Oxford, edited by Jerome Bertram (2020)
- Volume 75*: From Country House Catholicism to City Church: The Registers of the Oxford Catholic Mission 1700–1875, edited by Tony Hadland (2023)
- Volume 76*: Methodism in Victorian Oxford: The Oxford Wesleyan Local Preachers’ Book 1830–1902, edited by Martin Wellings (2023)
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