Nicholas Orme

• (1973) English Schools in the Middle Ages, Routledge, ISBN 0-416-16080-8
• (1976) Education in the West of England, 1066–1548, University of Exeter Press, ISBN 0-85989-041-4
• (1980) The Minor Clergy of Exeter Cathedral: 1300–1548 – a list of the minor officers, vicars choral, annuellars, secondaries and choristers. University of Exeter Press ISBN 0-85989-175-5
• (1983) Early British Swimming, 55 B.C.–1719 A.D: with the first swimming treatise in English, 1595. University of Exeter Press ISBN 0-85989-134-8
• (1984) From Childhood to Chivalry: Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy, Routledge, ISBN 0-416-74830-9
• (1987) Exeter Cathedral as It Was, 1050–1550, Devon Books ISBN 0-86114-785-5
• (1988) Education in Early Tudor England: Magdalen College Oxford and Its School, 1480–1540, Magdalen College
• (1989) Education and Society in Mediaeval and Renaissance England, Hambledon Continuum, ISBN 1-85285-003-5
• (1989) Table Manners for Children, by John Lydgate; with translation and introduction by Nicholas Orme ISBN 0-907596-17-7
• (1991) Unity and Variety: a History of the Church in Devon and Cornwall ISBN 0-85989-355-3
• (1996) English Church Dedications: With a Survey of Cornwall and Devon, University of Exeter Press ISBN 0-85989-516-5
• (2000) The Saints of Cornwall, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-820765-4
• (2001) Medieval Children, New Haven: Yale University Press ISBN 0-300-08541-9
• (2006) Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Tudor England, New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-11102-9
• (2006) School founders and patrons in England, 597–1560^[8]
• (2007) Cornish Wills, 1342–1540. Devon and Cornwall Record Society, ISBN 9780901853509
• (2007) Cornwall and the Cross. Chichester: Phillimore
• (2007) The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall: Religious History to 1559 v. 2, ISBN 1-904356-12-5^[9]
• (2009) Exeter Cathedral: The First Thousand Years, c. 400–1550, Impress Books, ISBN 978-0-9556239-8-1.
• (2014) The Churches of Medieval Exeter, Impress Books, ISBN 9781907605512.
• (2021) Going to Church in Medieval England, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0300256505
• (2023) Tudor Children, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0300267969

• Nicholas Roscarrock's Lives of the Saints (1992); ISBN 0-901853-35-6
• With Margaret Webster: (1995) The English Hospital, 1070–1570, Yale University Press; ISBN 0-300-06058-0
• With David Lepine: (2003) Death and Memory in Medieval Exeter, Devon & Cornwall Record Society; ISBN 0-901853-46-1

For a more extensive list of Orme's publications, see School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Exeter Website and the University Library Catalogue