Book & Publications

Below is a list of books and other publications which may be of interest to anyone researching local or family history:

  • 'The Local Historian's Glossary of Words and Terms' - Joy Bristow.
  • 'Bicester Wuz a Little Town' - Sid Hedges.
  • 'Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy' - Nick Barratt.
  • 'Genealogy, Psychology and Identity' - Paula Nicolson.
  • 'Genealogy: Essential Research Methods' - Helen Osborn.
  • 'English Genealogy' - Anthony Wagner.
  • 'Solving Genealogy Problems' - Dr Graeme Davis.
  • 'Understanding Documents for Genealogy and Local History' - Bruce Durie.
  • 'Listening to the Voices of Our Ancestors' - Megan Reilly Koepsell.
  • 'Genetic Genealogy: The Basics and Beyond' - Emily D. Aulicino.
  • 'Oxfordshire: A Handbook for Students of Local History' - D. M. Barrett & D. G. Vaisey.
  • 'A History of Oxfordshire' - Mary Jessup.
  • 'The Way it Was' - Derek & Gregory Bason.
  • 'Pages & Leaflets of North Oxfordshire' - Angela Fortnum. 
  • 'Oxfordshire Customs, Sports and Traditions' - Marilyn Yurdan.
  • 'Tales of Old Oxfordshire' - Cecilia Millson. 
  • 'Oxfordshire Within Living Memory' - Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes.
  • 'The Little History of Oxfordshire' - Paul Sullivan.
  • 'Bicester and Otmoor' - Sian Ellis.
  • 'Otmoor 2000AD' - Bruce Tremayn & Ann Lackie.
  • 'The Class Struggle in 19th Century Oxfordshire' - Bernard Reaney.
  • 'Medieval Roads and Tracks' - Paul Hindle.
  • 'Otmoor and its Seven Towns' - M. G. Hobson & K. L. H. Price.
  • 'The History and Antiquities of Bicester' - Paul Dunkin.
  • 'Bicester History Tour' - Stanley C. Jenkins.
  • 'Bicester Through Time' - Bicester Local History Society.
  • 'Bicester and Chesterton' - Bicester Local History Society.
  • 'Bicester Reflections' - Matthew Hathaway.
  • 'The Changing Faces of Bicester' (multiple volumes) - Peter Barrington.
  • 'The History of Bicester, its Town and Priory' - J. C. Blomfield.
  • 'All Change at Bicester' - William R. Nicholson.
  • 'Behind the Romance' (about the Red Rhythmics Harmonica Band) - Gillian Warson. 
  • 'Bicester in Camera' - Michael Morgan.
  • 'Bicester People in the Headlines' - Michael Morgan & Peter Barrington.
  • 'The Bicester Story' - Henry Franklin.
  • 'Coming in to Land' - Bill Malins.
  • 'Continuity and Change in an Oxfordshire Market Town' - Robert Parkinson.
  • '1066: Oxfordshire and the Norman Conquest' - Julie Ann Godson.
  • 'On This Day in Oxfordshire' - Julie Ann Godson.

More to be added soon, so don't forget to check in again at a later date! 

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