Bibliography of books and articles
relating to Headington and its history

compiled by Stephanie Jenkins on 3 January 2000

If you think anything else should be added,
please E-mail stephanie.jenkins@bigfoot.com

Many of the ones now out of print can be seen in the local history section
of Headington Library, and at the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies

Allen, Bridig, Morrells of Oxford: The Family and their Brewery 1743–1993 (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1994) (information about Headington Hill Hall)

Beadle, Muriel, These Ruins are Inhabited (Robert Hale, 1961) (the Beadles lodged at 77 Old High Street, opposite the Bell, in the 1950s)

Blake, J. F., ‘Excursion to Headington’, Proceedings of the Geological Association, 1902, vol. 17, pp. 383–5

Bloxham, Christine and Shatford, Suzanne, The Changing Faces of Headington, Vols. 1 and 2 (Boyd Publications, 1996)

Broomhead, Frank, The book illustrations of Orlando Jewitt (Private Libraries Association, Pinner, 1995) (Orlando Jewitt lived and worked in Church House, 14 St Andrew’s Road, from 1838 to 1857)

Chaundy, T. W., ‘William Kimber (1872–1961)’, Journal of the English Folk Song and Dance Society, Vol. IX, No. 3, December 1972

Conolly, J., Report drawn up for the Committee of Management of the Warneford Lunatic Asylum (Oxford, 1857)

Cook, J. and Taylor, L., A Village Within a City (Friends of Old Headington, 1987)

Coppock, G. A., and Hill, B. M., Headington Quarry and Shotover (Oxford University Press, 1933)

Graham, Malcolm, On Foot in Oxford: 5. Headington (Local History Collections, Central Library, Westgate, 1986)

Graham, Malcolm, ‘Housing Development on the Urban Fringe of Oxford, 1850–1914’, Oxoniensia LV (1990), pp. 147–166, esp. Headington Case Study on pp. 152–156

Grant, Robert, When Punch met Merry’. A Winter’s Tale, Boxing Day 1899, Sandfield Cottage, Headington, Oxford 100 Years On (Robert Grant, 1999)

Hansen, Anne Natalie, Oxford Goldsmiths before 1800 (Columbus, Ohio: At the Sign of the Cock, 1996), pp. 103–10 (which describe Sir Joseph Lock, who built Bury Knowle House)

Harris, H. M., Between the White Gates: A History of the Barn, the Tree, and Some Notable Inhabitants of Pullen’s Lane, Headington (Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1975)

‘Headington’, Gentleman’s Magazine, 1816, pt. 1, pp. 9–10

Hibbert, Christopher and Edward (eds.), The Encyclopaedia of Oxford (Macmillan, 1988), passim

Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry, Oxford, published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the church in 1999

Howland, Andy and Roger, Oxford United: A Complete Record 1983–1989 (Breedon Books Sport, 1989)

Jenkins, Stephanie, ‘The laundresses of New Headington’, Oxfordshire Local History, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Autumn 1998), pp. 21–29

Jewitt, L. L., ‘On Roman remains recently discovered at Headington’, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1850, vol. 5, p. 159; vol. 6, pp. 52–67

Mason, Edna, ‘Headington Quarry c.1820–1860: a Study of a 19^th-Century Open Village’, Oxoniensia LIV (1989), pp. 363–377

Mason, Edna, 'Anatomy of an open village: a study of Headington Quarry 1800–1860' (thesis submitted for Certificate in Local History, Department of External Studies, University of Oxford, 1987)

Oxfordshire Federation of Women’s Institutes, Oxfordshire: Within Living Memory, pp. 50–52 (a house in Windmill Road), 68–69 (the corner shop at 107 Windmill Road), and 223–4 (Headington during the second world war)

Parker, J. H., ‘On the wall paintings recently discovered in Headington Church’, Proceedings of the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society, vol. 1, 1851)

Samuel, Raphael, ‘"Quarry roughs": life and labour in Headington Quarry, 1860–1920. An essay in oral history’ in Raphael Samuel (ed.), Village Life and Labour (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975)

Samuels, Olga, An Oxford Conservation Area. Headington Quarry (Ewert Press, 1994)

Simpson, N. T., The Headington Union Minute Book (a thesis about the Headington Workhouse, kept in the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies at 362.5 (SIM) Stack)

Snow, Peter, Oxford Observed (John Murray, 1991), pp. 175–7

Taylor, Leslie and Griselda, Within Living Memory (Friends of Old Headington, 1978)

Thomas, V., Christian Philanthropy Exemplified in a Memoir of Samuel Wilson Warneford (Oxford, 1855)

Trueta, J., Gathorne Robert Girdlestone (Oxford University Press, 1971)

Vaughan Thomas, An account of the origin, nature, and objects of the asylum on Headington Hill, near Oxford, considered as a benevolent institution for the reception, relief, and cure of the insane, published in 1827 (s.n, 1827)

Victoria County History of Oxfordshire, Vols. IV and V

The Warneford Hospital, Oxford: 1826–1976 (Holywell Press, 1976)