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Historian Jessica A. Fernandez de Lara Harada contributes to landmark BBC Arts documentary series 'Civilisations: Rise and Fall'. The programme will begin on BBC Two and iPlayer on Monday 24 November 2025. @triciayourkevichphotos @BBC Arts
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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History of Art Research Seminar Series 2025

'Gold Rush, Congo Style: Gustav Klimt’s Marble Mosaic Frieze in the Palais Stoclet'

Deborah Silverman

5pm October 29

Cinema, The Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

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History of Art Research Seminar Series 2025
Gold Rush, Congo Style: Gustav Klimt’s Marble Mosaic Frieze in the Palais Stoclet
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October 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Today we are delighted to launch the new Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, a one-of-a-kind space where academia and culture will intersect to create something extraordinary. Read more: humanities.web.ox.ac.uk/article/step...
September 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Our fab Community History Hub website has just had a refresh, thanks to the lovely Laura Spence @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social!

There's lots of #localhistory talks, plays & celebrations happening in #Oxford this Sept & Oct - don't miss out on the knowledge or the fun!

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September 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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I’ve also been producing podcast interviews with @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social academics with OxPods for the past few years, with a few still to go before I graduate.

I’ll post about each of my podcasts soon but here’s the full feed if you want to have a look: open.spotify.com/show/2sZa7WT...
OxPods
Podcast · OxPods · The podcast by Oxford students and their professors. OxPods aims to create thought-provoking and easily digestible podcast episodes, made for anyone with an interest in the world ...
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May 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Photos from The Inaugural Lecture of the Jonathan Cooper Chair of History of Sexualities which was held at our College on Tuesday 23 May.

📸: Andrew Bailey

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May 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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🌍 | Venus Bivar, Associate Prof of Environmental History @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social explores the history, politics and human dimensions of climate change.

Discover more about her work, and how humanities can contribute to tackling the climate crisis ⬇️
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#OxfordClimate
Professor Venus Bivar - Embedding humanities in the environment
Venus Bivar, Associate Professor of Environmental History, discusses her career and the importance of embedding the humanities in the environment.
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June 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Watch the final Terra Lecture in American Art here!

'Indigenous Pictorialism: Richard Throssel’s Portrait of Apsáalooke Nation'

Thank you Professor Erin Pauwels for such an inspiring and engaging series!

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2025 Terra Lectures in American Art: UNSETTLED GROUND
'Indigenous Pictorialism'
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June 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Laura Flannigan's new book 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth' has been shortlisted for the RHS First Book Award!

www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/laur...
June 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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NEW: @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social's Prof Andrew Thompson has presented a new Framework of Analysis for Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking at the United Nations in New York.

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Oxford Humanities team delivers framework for tackling modern slavery
Prof. Andrew Thompson, a leading expert in global and imperial history in the Faculty of History at Oxford University, has presented a new Framework of Analysis for Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking
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April 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Working on an essay, dissertation, research project or conference proposal? Check out our videos and guides on using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)
Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers
For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.
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April 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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How can humanities research speak to the needs of present policy?

Join the conversation with Professors Patrick Salmon and Patricia Clavin! @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social

🗓️ Tuesday 25 February, 17:00 - 18:30

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February 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Apply now to be one of our first Koch Fellows in History!

Deadline: Wednesday 26 February 2025

Find out all the details here:

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Koch Junior Fellowship in History
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February 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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The Faculty of History and @wadhamcollege.bsky.social are excited to announce the establishment of the Koch History Centre (KHC), which will provide an institutional home in Oxford for the pursuit of world-class historical research!

Find out more:

www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...
The Koch History Centre (KHC): A new Historical Research Centre at Oxford
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February 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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OUT NOW!

Professor Richard Reid's new book 'The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century' - A panoramic global history of Africa in the age of imperialism.

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Richard Reid - The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2025)
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January 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Dr Lyndsey Jenkins (@teadevotee.bsky.social) (pictured left), Mansfield's History Fellow (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) has won a £215k AHRC grant for her project on Joyce Butler (pictured right) and women’s rights in the 1950s-70s. 🎉

Find out more here: www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
Lyndsey on the left and Joyce on the right
January 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Join us for a screening and post watch discussion of Derek Jarman’s seminal and final film, ‘Blue’.

Monday 27th January, 5pm-7pm
St Johns College, 21 St Giles Seminar Room
#queerhistory #queermedia #lgbtqhistory #skystorians
January 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Check out our Hilary term program! It's a particularly exciting one, if we do say so ourselves, with a film screening, a roundtable on new approaches to Shakespeare and much more. Everyone is welcome 💗 🌟🏳️‍🌈
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January 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Read Dr Helen Gittos' new research paper - Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?

‘This is the most exciting thing I’ve written: the more I researched, the more pieces of evidence fitted into place.’

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Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?
Dr Helen Gittos' new research argues that early medieval soldiers were recruited from Britain into the Byzantine army in 575AD and fought against the Sasanians in modern-day Syria.
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January 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Join us for The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism (Professor Eric Nelson, Harvard University)

Tuesdays at 5pm, starting 4th February

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The Carlyle Lectures
For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism - Prof Eric Nelson (Robert M. Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University)
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January 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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New Article! Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social on 'Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?'

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Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?*
Abstract:. The Sutton Hoo ship burial is one of the most famous examples of a group of lavishly furnished graves of the late sixth and early seventh centur
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January 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Keen for more news in the humanities from the University of Oxford?

Check out our starter pack of departments, faculties and institutes across the Humanities Division: go.bsky.app/E4B5y39
December 16, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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We are looking forward to attending a lecture by Abigail Green from @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, organized by the Martin Buber Institut, next week. She will talk about Jewish Liberal Activism from 1848-1948. Thank you for the opportunity!
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December 3, 2024 at 3:03 PM