Oxford History of England

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The Oxford History of England (1934–1965) is a series of books on the history of the United Kingdom. Published by Oxford University Press, it was originally intended to span from Roman Britain to the outbreak of the First World War in fourteen volumes written by eminent historians. The volume on the Stuarts by series editor Sir George Clark was the first to be published, appearing in 1934. The series as originally conceived was completed in 1961, with a fifteenth volume taking the narrative up to the end of the Second World War added in 1965. All of the volumes published before 1945 except Ensor's were revised, and in one case replaced, in the postwar years. In the 1980s the first volume — a composite with sections on the Roman period and the English settlements written independently by Collingwood and Myres respectively — was split in two, with a new treatment of Roman Britain by Peter Salway and with Myres rewriting his history of the transitional period between the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons from scratch. This reorganisation aside, the last regular revision was to Stenton's history of the Anglo-Saxons in 1971. Despite their age, most volumes remained in print as of 2026. Some volumes are considered classic works for their respective periods. The reputation of the series as a whole, however, is mixed. John Bossy wrote in 1996 that it "does not much ring in the mind" except for volumes 1, 2 and 15 (by Collingwood, Stenton and Taylor). Patrick Wormald in 1981 similarly praised the same volumes (and "perhaps" volume 12 by Watson) as "among the successes of a not entirely happy series".

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