Festschrift

• Edited by P S Barnwell and Paula Henderson, Architect, Patron and Craftsman in Tudor and Early Stuart England: Essays for Malcolm Airs (Donington, 2017).

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As Sole Author

•  The Making of the English Country House, 1500-1640 (London, 1975)

•  The Buildings of Britain: Tudor and Jacobean  (London, 1982)

•  The Tudor & Jacobean Country House (Stroud, 1995)

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As Contributor

• ​Kirsty Rodwell (ed.),Historic Towns in Oxfordshire (Oxford, 1975).

• Survey of London: The Museum Area of South Kensington and Westminster (London, 1975)

• Survey of London: The Grosvenor Estate, Mayfair (London, 1977)    

• Bridget Cherry & Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: London        

• South (Harmondsworth, 1983). Introduction, Timber-framed Buildings.        

• Jean Cook and Trevor Rowley (eds.), Dorchester through the Ages (Oxford, 1985). Domestic Buildings in the Village.

• Boris Ford (ed.),The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain, Vol.3 (Cambridge, 1989). Architecture, Hardwick Hall.

• Bridget Cherry & Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: London North and West (Harmondsworth, 1991). Introduction, Timber-framed Buildings.

• Susanna Wade Martins (ed.), Old Farm Buildings in a New Countryside (Reading, 1991). Acceptable re-use, the English Heritage view.

• Boris Ford (ed.), The Cambridge Cultural History: Sixteenth Century Britain (Cambridge, 1992).

• Malcolm Airs (ed.), The Tudor and Jacobean Great House (Oxford, 1994). The Building Process: Some Further Thoughts.

• Malcolm Airs (ed.), Baroque and Palladian: the Early 18th Century Great House (Oxford, 1996). The Woodperry House Chimney Piece.

• The MacMillan Dictionary of Art (London, 1996). Various entries.

• David Hey (ed.),The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History (Oxford 1996). Buildings.

• Sarah Pearson and Bob Meeson (eds.), Vernacular Buildings in a Changing World (York, 2001). Some general conclusions.

• Pauline Croft (ed.), Patronage, Culture and Power: the Early Cecils (London & New Haven 2002). “Pomp or Glory”: The Influence of Theobalds.

• Malcolm Airs (ed.), The Twentieth Century Great House (Oxford, 2002). Triumph Against the Odds: The English Country House in the 20th Century.

• Robert Tittler and Norman Jones (eds.), A Companion to Tudor Britain (Oxford, 2004). Architecture, Politics and Society.

• New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004). Various entries.

• Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, 2006 - ). Consultant.

• Oxford Companion to Tudor Britain (Oxford, 2008)

• Kate Tiller and Giles Darkes (eds.), An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire (Oxford, 2010). The Great Rebuilding.

• Malcolm Airs and William Whyte (eds.), Architectural History After Colvin (Stamford, 2013). Colvin and the Conservation Movement.

• Martin Henig and Crispin Paine (eds.), Preserving and Presenting the Past in Oxfordshire and Beyond: Essays in Memory of John Rhodes (Oxford, 2013). The visit of Artist John Harper to Dorchester on Thames in 1832 (with George Speake).

• The Grove Dictionary of Art online (2014). Various entries.

• Peter Edwards and Elspeth Graham (eds.), Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth-Century England: William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and his Political, Social and Cultural Connections (Leiden, 2017). Courtly Rivalry: The Context for William Cavendish’s Equestrian Buildings.

 

As Editor

• Conservation Areas: The First 25 Years (Oxford, 1993)

• The Tudor and Jacobean Great House (Oxford, 1994)

• The Seventeenth Century Great House (Oxford, 1995)

• Baroque and Palladian: The Early 18th Century Great House (Oxford, 1996)

• The Later 18th Century Great House (Oxford, 1997)

• The Regency Great House (Oxford, 1998)

• The Victorian Great House (Oxford, 2000)

• The Edwardian Great House (Oxford, 2001)

• The Twentieth Century Great House (Oxford, 2002)

• The Vernacular Workshop (York, 2004) with P.S.Barnwell & Marilyn Palmer

• The Later Stuart House: Vernacular Buildings and the Hearth Tax (York 2006) with P.S.Barnwell

• The Renaissance Villa in Britain (Reading, 2007) with G.Tyack

• The Medieval Great House (Stamford, 2011) with P.S.Barnwell

• Architectural History After Colvin (Stamford, 2013) with William Whyte

• Kellogg College: The first 25 years (Oxford, 2015)