Oxford Historical Monographs is a monographic series published by Oxford University Press. All books published in the series are derived from recent doctoral (D.Phil) theses submitted at the University of Oxford.
Since the series received its current name in 1965, over 250 titles have been published. Works are selected by a committee drawn from the university's History Faculty. About 10 percent of theses drawn to their attention are chosen for publication, resulting in 6 to 8 books being published per annum.Welcome to Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford Historical Monographs. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
Committee The Oxford Historical Monographs Committee is the series' editorial board and is composed of postholders in the History Faculty at the University of Oxford. It meets four times each year to consider examiners' reports and conduct other business. The committee is intended to represent as wide a range of period and thematic interests as possible. The current (2025) composition of the committee is: David Parrott (New College; chair) Paul Betts (St Antony's College) Faisal Devji (St Antony's College) Perry Gauci (Lincoln College) Katherine Lebow (Christ Church) James McDougall (Trinity College) Richard Reid (St Cross College) Hannah Skoda (St John's College) Julia Smith (All Souls College) William Whyte (St John's College)
List of publications Below is a list of all Oxford Historical Monographs publications in the Oxford University Press catalogue. Year Author Title1972Colin LucasThe Structure of Terror: The Example of Javogues and the Loire1974J. S. MorrillCheshire 1630–1660: County Government and Society During the 'English Revolution|- |1975 |Michael Angold |A Byzantine Government in Exile: Government and Society Under the Laskards of Nicaea (1204–1261) |- |1975 |T. C. Barnard |Cromwellian Ireland: English Government and Reform in Ireland 1649–1660 |- |1975 |Paul Langford |The Excise Crisis: Society and Politics in the Age of Walpole |- |1977 |I. M. Green |The Re-establishment of the Church of England 1660–1663 |- |1979 |D. M. Palliser |Tudor York |- |1979 |Kevin Sharpe |Sir Robert Cotton 1586–1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England |- |1981 |Felipe Fernández-Armesto |The Canary Islands after the Conquest: The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early Sixteenth Century |- |1983 |Nigel Saul |St. Martin and His Hagiographer: History and Miracle in the Sulpicius Severus |- |1984 |Euan Cameron |The Reformation of Heretics: The Waldenses of the Alps, 1480–1580 |- |1984 |Anthony Howe |The Cotton Masters 1830–1860 |- |1984 |Bryan Ward-Perkins |From Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Urban Public Building in Northern and Central Italy, AD 300-850 |- |1986 |Barry Collett |Italian Benedictine Scholars and the Reformation: The Congregation of Santa Giustina of Padua |- |1986 |Andrew Pettegree |Foreign Protestant Communities in Sixteenth-Century London |- |1987 |Richard Brent |Liberal Anglican Politics: Whiggery, Religion, and Reform 1830–1841 |- |1988 |John Davis |Reforming London: The London Government Problem, 1855–1900 |- |1988 |Linda Bryder |Below the Magic Mountain: A Social History of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Britain |- |1988 |Michael Witby |The Emperor Maurice and His Historian: Theophylact Simocatta on Persian and Balkan Warfare |- |1988 |P. A. Johnson |Duke Richard of York 1411–1460 |- |1989 |Michael John |Politics and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany |- |1989 |Alvin Jackson |The Ulster Party: Irish Unionists in the House of Commons, 1884–1911 |- |1989 |Ruth Harris |Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siècle |- |1989 |Azar Gat |The Origins of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to Clausewitz |- |1990 |David Lemmings |Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar 1860–1730 |- |1990 |Nicholas Tyacke |Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism c.1590–1640 |- |1991 |Simon Payling |Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire |- |1991 |Guy Llewelyn Thompson |Paris and Its People Under English Rule: The Anglo-Burgundian Regime 1420–1436 |- |1991 |John Wolffe |The Protestant Crusade in Great Britain 1829–1860 |- |1991 |Mark Mazower |Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis |- |1991 |J. D. Davies |Gentlemen and Tarpaulins: The Officers and Men of the Restoration Army |- |1991 |Lucia Zedner |Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England |- |1991 |Peter Heather |Goths and Romans 332–489 |- |1992 |S. P. MacKenzie |Politics and Military Morale: Current Affairs and Citizenship Education in the British Army 1914–1950 |- |1992 |M. W. Taylor |Men versus the State: Herbert Spencer and Late Victorian Individualism |- |1992 |Philippa C. Maddern |Violence and Social Order: East Anglia 1422–1442 |- |1992 |Stephen Brooke |Labour's War: The Labour Party and the Second World War |- |1992 |C. E. Moreton |The Townshends and Their World: Gentry, Law, and Land in Norfolk c.1450–1551 |- |1992 |Julian Davies |The Caroline Captivity of the Church: Charles I and the Remoulding of Anglicanism 1625–1641 |- |1992 |Teresa Webber |Scribes and Scholars at Salisbury Cathedral c.1075–1125 |- |1992 |Nigel Aston |The End of an Élite: The French Bishops and the Coming of the Revolution 1786–1790 |- |1992 |Joseph McAleer |Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914–1950 |- |1993 |Huw Pryce |Native Law and the Church in Medieval Wales |- |1993 |Robert Harris |A Patriot Press: National Politics and the London Press in the 1740s |- |1993 |Andrew Adonis |Making Aristocracy Work: The Peerage and the Political System in Britain, 1884–1914 |- |1993 |David Gary Shaw |The Creation of a Community: The City of Wells in the Middle Ages |- |1993 |Randall Rogers |Latin Siege Warfare in the Twelfth Century |- |1993 |Elizabeth Harvey |Youth and the Welfare State in Weimar Germany |- |1993 |L. V. Scott |Conscription and the Attlee Governments: The Politics and Policy of National Service 1945–1951 |- |1993 |Stephen Hpwe |Anticolonialism in British Politics: The Left and the End of Empire 1918–1964 |- |1993 |Richard H. Trainor |Black Country Élites: The Exercise of Authority in an Industrialized Area, 1830–1900 |- |1994 |Peter Marshall |The Catholic Priesthood and the English Reformation |- |1994 |Peter A. Clarke |The English Nobility under Edward the Confessor |- |1994 |Lara V. Marks |Model Mothers: Jewish Mothers and Maternity Provision in East London 1870–1939 |- |1994 |David Eastwood |Governing Rural England: Tradition and Transformation in Local Government 1780–1840 |- |1994 |Jeremy Adelman |Frontier Development: Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada 1890–1914 |- |1994 |William G. Wagner |Marriage, Property, and Law in Late Imperial Russia |- |1994 |Mariel Grant |Propaganda and the Role of the State in Inter-War Britain |- |1994 |John Hudson |Land, Law, and Lordship in Anglo-Norman England |- |1994 |Stefan Berger |The British Labour Party and the German Social Democrats 1900–1931 |- |1995 |Philip Murphy |Party Politics and Decolonization: The Conservative Party and British Colonial Policy in Tropical Africa 1951–1964 |- |1995 |V. Markham Lester |Victorian Insolvency: Bankruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and Company Winding-up in Nineteenth-Century England |- |1995 |Fania Oz-Salzberger |Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany |- |1995 |Marguerite W. Dupree |Family Structure in the Staffordshire Potteries 1840–1880 |- |1995 |Andrew D. Brown |Popular Piety in Late Medieval England: The Diocese of Salisbury 1250–1550 |- |1995 |Richard Gameson |The Role of Art in the Late Anglo-Saxon Church |- |1995 |Howard G. Brown |War, Revolution, and the Bureaucratic State: Politics and Army Administration in France, 1791–1799 |- |1995 |Mary Heimann |Catholic Devotion in Victorian England |- |1995 |James Meadowcroft |Conceptualizing the State: Innovation and Dispute in British Political Thought 1880–1914 |- |1996 |Perry Gauci |Politics and Society in Great Yarmouth 1660–1722 |- |1996 |Eduardo Posada-Carbó |The Colombian Caribbean: A Regional History 1870–1950 |- |1996 |Sandra M. den Otter |British Idealism and Social Explanation: A Study in Late Victorian Thought |- |1996 |Matthew Cragoe |An Anglican Aristocracy: The Moral Economy of the Landed Estate in Carmarthenshire 1832–1895 |- |1996 |Mary Vincent |The Second Spanish Republic: Religion and Politics in Salamanca 1930–1936 |- |1996 |Paul Smith |Feminism and the Third Republic: Women's Political and Civil Rights in France, 1918–1945 |- |1996 |Anthony Kauders |German Politics and the Jews: Düsseldorf and Nuremberg, 1910–1933 |- |1996 |Christian Leitz |Economic Relations between Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain 1936–1945 |- |1997 |Andrzej Olechnowicz |Working-Class Housing in England Between the Wars: The Becontree Estate |- |1997 |Christopher Trolley |Domestic Biography: The Legacy of Evangelicalism in Four Nineteenth-Century Families |- |1997 |Ian Bostridge |Witchcraft and Its Transformations, c.1650–c.1750 |- |1997 |C. Y. Ferdinand |Benjamin Collins and the Provincial Newspaper Trade in the Eighteenth Century |- |1997 |Rosemary Sweet |The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-Century England |- |1997 |Daniel Ritschel |The Politics of Planning: The Debate on Economic Planning in Britain in the 1930s |- |1997 |Scott Smith-Bannister |Names and Naming Patterns in England 1538–1700 |- |1997 |Arihiro Fukuda |Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars |- |1998 |Patrick Major |The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germant, 1945–1956 |- |1998 |Mathew Thomson |The Problem of Mental Deficiency: Eugenics, Democracy, and Social Policy in Britain, c.1870–1959 |- |1998 |Richard Butterwick |Poland's Last King and English Culture: Stanislaw August Poniatowski, 1732–1798 |- |1998 |K. D. Reynolds |Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain |- |1998 |Colin Podmore |The Moravian Church in England, 1728–1760 |- |1998 |Joseph Ziegler |Medicine and Religion c.1300: The Case of Arnau de Vilanova |- |1998 |Rainer Liedtke |Jewish Welfare in Hamburg and Manchester, c.1850–1914 |- |1998 |Hannah Barker |Newspapers, Politics, and Public Opinion in Late Eighteenth-Century England |- |1998 |Kathleen G. Cushing |Papacy and Law in the Gregorian Revolution |- |1999 |Ashley Jackson |Botswana 1939–1945: An African Country at War |- |1999 |Alan Coates |English Medieval Books: The Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal |- |1999 |Gábor Bátonyi |Britain and Central Europe, 1918–1933 |- |1999 |Maria Misra |Business, Race, and Politics in British India, c.1850–1960 |- |1999 |Jan Palmowski |Urban Liberalism in Imperial Germany: Frankfurt Am Main, 1866–1914 |- |1999 |Heather Bell |Frontiers of Medicine in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1899–1940 |- |1999 |Carol E. Harrison |The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation |- |1999 |David Wartenweiler |Civic Society and Academic Debate in Russia 1905–1914 |- |1999 |Arthur Burns |The Diocesan Revival in the Church of England c.1800–1870 |- |1999 |Berenice M. Kerr |Religious Life for Women c.1100–c.1350 |- |1999 |Owen White |Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895–1960 |- |2000 |John Crook |The Architectural Setting of the Cult of Saints in the Early Christian West c.300–c.1200 |- |2000 |Adrian Davies |The Quakers in English Society, 1655–1725 |- |2000 |Howard Hotson |Johann Heinrich Alsted 1588–1638 |- |2000 |Jeremy Gregory |Restoration, Reformation, and Reform, 1660–1828 |- |2000 |Hugh E. L. Collins |The Order of the Garter 1348–1461: Chivalry and Politics in Late Medieval England |- |2000 |Jane Whittle |The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk 1440–1580 |- |2000 |Michael Haren