Oxfordshire History Centre catalogues

Heritage Search

Our principal online catalogue

Including access to Picture Oxon

• Archives
• Publications
• Name indexes
• Oral history sound recordings
• Museum objects
• Historic Environment Record database

Picture Oxon

Image catalogues and digital images

• Photographs, prints, maps and aerial views

SOLO

Oxford University library catalogue, including books at Oxfordshire History Centre

Discovery

Catalogues of Oxfordshire History Centre archive collections, including:

• Local government (quarter sessions, clerk of the peace, other official) records
• Family and estate collections
• Business collections

Archives Hub

• Catalogues of Oxfordshire History Centre archive collections
• Catalogues of archives from over 350 other repositories

School records

List of records of Oxfordshire schools that have been deposited at Oxfordshire History Centre (pdf format, 209Kb)

Oxford City records (selected)

Catalogues of selected records in Oxford City Archives

Includes: electoral, school board, and other authorities' records

Parish records (selected)

Catalogues of selected Anglican parish records in the Oxford Archdeaconry

Dawkins papers

Catalogue of the records of the Dawkins family of Over Norton and their estates in Oxfordshire and Jamaica, 1545-1923

Records transferred from the Bodleian Library to Oxfordshire History Centre

Deposited plans - railways

Handlist of the plans, sections and book of reference for proposed railways in Oxfordshire 1824-1936 (pdf format, 214Kb)

Deposited plans - bridges, canals, roads

Handlist of deposited plans of bridges, canals, rights of way and turnpikes (pdf format, 359KB)

Tithe awards and maps

Handlist of tithe awards and maps, produced between 1838 and 1854 (pdf format, 465Kb)

Enclosure awards and maps

Handlist of enclosure awards and maps resulting from the consolidation and enclosure of farm land in Oxfordshire (pdf format 1.1Mb)

Newspaper holdings

List of newspapers (chiefly microfilm), covering all Oxfordshire towns and their surrounding areas (pdf format, 296Kb)

Digital publications

List of digital publications held by and accessible at Oxfordshire History Centre, including historic environment record reports and selected periodicals

Sales catalogues 1764-2008

Index of sales catalogues in Archive and Local Studies collections that do not have an individual record on Heritage Search

Sales particulars relating to houses, buildings and other properties in Oxfordshire