Books by Paul Sullivan

The Weight Lifted chronicles the Chicago Cubs' historic 2016 journey from underdogs to World Series champions, breaking an enduring curse and ending the longest championship drought in sports history.

Willy Cockhead had to live with his name.Uncovered by local author Paul Sullivan and accompanied with strange-but-true anecdotes, this entertaining volume of baffling, ill-thought-out and just plain rude examples champions the people and places of Oxfordshire that got saddled with the daftest of names.

This is the history of Oxford as you have never encountered it before. One of its principal colleges, meanwhile, doubled as a slaughterhouse - and its richest streets and university edifices backed on to some of the most pestilential slums in England.

Bloody British history

A major new contribution to the field of qualitative data analysis, this book sets out the theory and practice of dialogical approaches.

A history of Oxford

In Remixology: Tracing the Dub Diaspora Paul Sullivan explores the evolution of Dub; the avant-garde verso of Reggae.

many others, such as the fact that Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, stole a piece of New College's unicorn horn, that one of the Fellows of Christ Church was a bear or that Oxford Castle has England's most frequently sighted ghost, are much less widely known - and some of these stories have not appeared in print for hundreds of years.