Book reviews

This new page is for up-to-date book reviews, allowing readers to assess recent publications in between editions of the OLHA journal, and offering support to local historians wanting to publish their work.

If you would like your book reviewed, please contact OLHA’s journal editor Vanessa Moir.

Posted in July 2023:

• A Yankee in an English Village: 50th Anniversary Edition, edited by Margot Metcalfe, reviewed by Oxfordshire museum curator Marie-Louise Kerr

Posted in June 2023:

• Oxford University: Stories from the Archives, by Alice Blackford Millea, reviewed by Oxford history blogger Tony Morris

• The Ascott Martyrs: Why did the rural establishment imprison sixteen women and two babies in 1873?, edited by Keith Laybourn, reviewed by Oxford historian Annie Skinner

Posted in May 2023:

• Drawn From Life, The Ruskin Diaries 1949-1953 by Steve Hurst, reviewed by Gaginwell historian Carol Geare

• Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney – A Parish History by Andrew Long (ed) and Aston History Group, reviewed by the editor of the Oxfordshire VCH, Simon Townley

Posted in April 2023:

• The Victoria County History of Oxfordshire Volume XVIII (Benson, Ewelme and the Chilterns), reviewed by Harwell historian Malcolm Thick

• The Victoria County History of Oxfordshire Volume XX (South Oxfordshire Chilterns, Caversham, Goring), reviewed by Harwell historian Malcolm Thick

Posted in February 2023:

• The archeology of East Oxford: Archeox: the development of a community by David Griffiths and Jane Harrison (eds), reviewed by East Oxford historian Martin Stott

Posted in January 2023:

• Wholesome Dwellings: Housing Need in Oxford and the Municipal Response, 1800-1939 by Malcolm Graham, reviewed by architectural historian Geoffrey Tyack

Posted in December 2022:

• From Tillage to Terrace: a study of the southward expansion of the town of Henley into the adjoining parish of Rotherfield Greys by Hilary Fisher, reviewed by Oxfordshire historian Malcolm Graham

Posted in November 2022:

• boats, locks and bridges, A look back at life on the Upper Thames seen from Wallingford and Benson by John Dalton, reviewed by Henley-on-Thames historian Hilary Fisher

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