Oxford Almanack

The Oxford Almanack was an annual almanac published by the Oxford University Press for the University of Oxford from 1674 through 2019.^[1][2]

The Oxford University Press originally held a monopoly on publishing almanacs. The almanacs traditionally included engravings and information about Oxford University, including the Heads of Colleges and a university calendar. No almanack appeared in 1675, but it had been published annually since 1676.^[1]

Engravers and artists have included James Basire, Michael Burghers, J. M. W. Turner, and John Piper.

List of almanacks since 1992

Petter's The Oxford Almanacks lists the scenes depicted and their illustrators up to 1973, and the list is continued to 1991 in Bradshaw's article in Oxoniensia (see Further Reading for both references).

Year	Illustration	Artist
1992	Sir Geoffrey Arthur Building, Pembroke College
1993	St Hilda's College	Hugh Casson
1994	Oxford University Press
1995	St John's College	Ilana Richardson
1996	Tom Tower and the Radcliffe Camera	Jonathan Pike
1997	Covered Market	Michele Tranquillini
1998	North Oxford	Matthew Cook
1999	University College	Ron Sandford
2000	University Church	Sarah McMenemy
2001	Oxford in summer	David Mach
2002	High Street	David Prentice
2003	Folly Bridge	Oliver Warman
2004	Harris Manchester College	Philip Atkins
2005	Linacre College	Ben Pritchard
2006	Saïd Business School	Chris Andrews
2007	St Edmund Hall	Joseph Winkelman
2008	Magdalen College	Michael Chaplin
2009	Radcliffe Observatory	John Walsom
2010	Wadham College	Francis Hammel
2011	Oxford Canal & St Barnabas Church	John Newberry
2012	Botanic Garden	John Lawrence
2013	Balliol College	Ivan Green
2014	Exeter College	Tim Steward
2015	St Cross College	Robin Wilson
2016	St Catherine's College	Cathy Read
2017	Corpus Christi College	Ceri Allen
2018	Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies	Chris Fothergill
2019	Oxford University Press	William Monk

References

1. Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Oxford Almanacks". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. pp. 298–299. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
2. @OxUniPress (2 January 2020). "Hi, unfortunately there isn't an Oxford Almanack for 2020. The University of Oxford and OUP have agreed to stop producing the Almanack from 2020 onwards due to dwindling interest" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

Further reading

• Helen Mary Petter, The Oxford Almanacks (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974)
• J.R. Bradshaw, 'A Classification by Subject of the Oxford Almanacks 1674-1991', Oxoniensia 56 (1991), pages 131-144
• Paul Luna & Martyn Ould, 'The Printed Page', chapter 17 in Ian Gadd (editor), The History of Oxford University Press. Volume I: Beginnings to 1780 (Oxford University Press, 2013), pages 520-527 (online with subscription)