Oxoniensia is one of the foremost archaeological, architectural,
and local history journals in the country. It includes excavation reports,
surveys of buildings and standing structures, and articles on the history and
topography of Oxford and Oxfordshire. It is published in May each year,
before the Annual General Meeting of the OAHS. It is a refereed journal.
Volume 74 (2009) will be published in 2010.
Potential authors are encouraged to get in touch with the editor by email at editor@oahs.org.uk to get a copy of the guidelines for authors. You can also download a copy here.
The Society offers a prize to encourage new authors to contribute to Oxoniensia. Details may be found here.
Books for review should be sent to the reviews editor:
Robert PeberdyThe society's copies of Oxoniensia are stored in the Sackler Library in Oxford. They are available to anyone who has access to the library, including all members of the society.
For those without Oxford University library access the easiest sets to access for reading are the two in the Oxfordshire Studies currently located above the Public Library in Westgate. Photocopiers are available.
Photocopies for postal delivery may be purchased from Duke Humfrey's Library, who will ship copies anywhere in the world.
If you need to find the volume and page numbers of an article you may find the complete table of contents useful.
Online content is currently being moved to a new site, oxoniensia.org. This will give open access to all but the most recent five volumes of Oxoniensia.
The Membership Secretary has supplies of many recent volumes. Members are entitled to buy back numbers at the special price of £6 per volume.
The Society is always grateful to receive unwanted sets of Oxoniensia to add to its supply.
From 1839 to 1900 the Society produced volumes of Proceedings (from 1839 to 1859 under the original name, the Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture).
The Oxfordshire Archaeological Society produced proceedings from 1853-1949, until 1886 under the name North Oxfordshire Archaeological Society.
Between 1892 and 1895 there was a useful periodical called Archaeologia Oxoniensis edited by Mr. J. Park Harrison, of which six numbers were issued; for the most part the papers that were printed were about the archaeology of ancient Oxford and contained valuable material. In addition, there were short paragraphs at the end of each number which dealt with any finds that had been recently made when houses were demolished or in other ways...' [Salter].A volume containing all six numbers was published in 1895 by Henry Frowde. Some of the material is very interesting although it is puzzling how articles such as the one entitled 'Phoenician Characters in Sumatra' can have been thought relevant.
Buried Oxford Unearthed by F. H. Penny and W. M. Merry is an account of the 1899 OAHS excavation at the Bodleian but was not published by OAHS.
The illustrated pamphlet Old Houses in Oxford (2nd ed., 1920, price 6d.), was issued by the Society but is no longer available.
All of these can be found in the Bodleian.