| Ethnic pride and racial prejudice in Victorian Cape Town V Bickford-Smith Cambridge University Press, 1995 | 345 | 1995 |
| Cape Town: the making of a city: an illustrated social history N Worden, E Van Heyningen, V Bickford-Smith Uitgeverij Verloren, 1998 | 341 | 1998 |
| Cape Town in the twentieth century: an illustrated social history V Bickford-Smith, E Van Heyningen, N Worden New Africa Books, 1999 | 235 | 1999 |
| The struggle for District Six: Past and present S Jeppie, C Soudien Buchu Books, 1990 | 180 | 1990 |
| Creating a city of the tourist imagination: The case of Cape Town,The fairest Cape of them all' V Bickford-Smith Urban Studies 46 (9), 1763-1785, 2009 | 164 | 2009 |
| South African urban history, racial segregation and the unique case of Cape Town? V Bickford‐Smith Journal of Southern African Studies 21 (1), 63-78, 1995 | 134 | 1995 |
| Black experience and the empire PD Morgan, S Hawkins OUP Oxford, 2004 | 126 | 2004 |
| Breaking the chains: slavery and its legacy in the nineteenth-century Cape Colony N Worden, CC Crais Indiana University Press, 1994 | 118 | 1994 |
| The Emergence of the South African Metropolis: Cities and Identities in the Twentieth Century V Bickford-Smith Cambridge University Press, 2016 | 73 | 2016 |
| Empire and after: Englishness in postcolonial perspective G MacPhee, P Poddar Berghahn Books, 2007 | 68 | 2007 |
| The angry divide: Social and economic history of the Western Cape WG James, M Simons New Africa Books, 1989 | 64 | 1989 |
| Black and white in colour: African history on screen V Bickford-Smith, R Mendelsohn (No Title), 2007 | 63 | 2007 |
| A companion to the historical film RA Rosenstone, C Parvulescu John Wiley & Sons, 2015 | 60 | 2015 |
| The betrayal of Creole elites, 1880–1920 V Bickford-Smith Black experience and the Empire, 194-227, 2004 | 59 | 2004 |
| Black ethnicities, communities and political expression in late Victorian Cape Town V Bickford-Smith The Journal of African History 36 (3), 443-465, 1995 | 59 | 1995 |
| The origins and early history of District Six to 1910 V Bickford-Smith The Struggle for District Six: Past and Present, 35-43, 1990 | 59 | 1990 |
| Mapping Cape Town: from slavery to apartheid V Bickford-Smith Lost communities, living memories: Remembering forced removals in Cape Town …, 2001 | 49 | 2001 |
| Revisiting anglicisation in the nineteenth-century Cape Colony V Bickford-Smith The British World, 82-95, 2004 | 43 | 2004 |
| A ‘special tradition of multi-racialism’? Segregation in Cape Town in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries V Bickford-Smith Class, caste and color, 47-62, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| Meanings of freedom, social position and identity among ex-slaves and their descendants in Cape Town, 1875-1910 V Bickford-Smith Breaking the chains: slavery and its legacy in the nineteenth-century Cape …, 1994 | 36 | 1994 |
