This page contains pre-course reading lists for Undergraduate Freshers who are due to join St Peter's in October 2025.
Page updated 19 August 2025 (English materials added) and previously (Maths, Law and Physics materials added)
Please download the reading list for your subject using the links below. If you are reading for a joint school please ensure you download the list for each subject in the school. Please note that reading lists are not intended for exhaustive study but rather, in your own interests, to improve your background knowledge of the field you propose to pursue at Oxford.
If there is no document currently showing for your subject, please check back periodically to see if it has been added.
- Archaeology and Anthropology
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Chemistry: Letter; Assumed Knowledge; Study Skills
- Czech: Letter; Prelims handbook
- Earth Sciences
- Economics
- Engineering: information will be sent directly to Freshers by a tutor
- English: Papers 1B&3, Paper 2
- French: Letter; Prelims handbook
- Geography
- German
- History [NB response required by 29 August]
- History (for those doing History and Modern Languages) [NB response required by 29 August]
- History (for those doing History and English) [NB response required by 29 August]
- History of Art: Letter; Induction document
- Law: Letter; Survival kit; Induction pack [NB 2024 edition]; Lamond article
- Management
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Music
- Philosophy
- Physics: Freshers' Guide; Maths & Mechanics work; Computing Bridging
- Politics
- Portuguese: information has been issued by the Faculty
- Spanish: information will be sent directly to Freshers by a tutor
- Theology and Religion