History reading list: Oxford, St Hilda's College
Oxford, St Hilda's College lists 74 books for students about to start the course in History. The list starts with The Anglo-Saxons by J. Campbell, ed., Beowulf by M. Alexander (trans.) and Unification and Conquest by P. Strafford. 2 of the books also appear on other Oxford and Cambridge lists we collected.
History letter and reading list 2026 (Introductory Reading Lists for the History Preliminary Examination) (University of Oxford), PDF. www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/asset/history-letter-and-reading-list-2026.pdf
Retrieved 3 October 2026. Check the source for the current year's version.
The 74 books
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- 43.Introduction to Early Medieval Europe, 300-900: The Sword, the Plough and the BookM. Innes
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- 68.The Triumph of Music: Composers, Musicians, and their Audiences, 1700 to the PresentT. C. W. Blanning
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- 71.The Return of Martin GuerreNatalie Zemon Davis
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- 74.Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural RevolutionSelina Todd
Other History lists
- Cambridge, Robinson College · 22 books
- Cambridge, Churchill College · 7 books
How this list was made
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