Happy to share my new blog post on C18 French-Swedish relations for the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History blog @oxfordcih.bsky.social. French-Swedish diplomacy treated cultural alignment as a powerful vehicle for political change in Sweden👇 intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/enli...

Read all about our new digital edition, Oxford University Voltaire, in the newest blog by our research editors! And ask your librarian for the free trial! voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/c...

Don’t miss our DPhil student Harun Ali's thorough introduction to a posthumous essay by the great J. G. A. Pocock! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Call for Papers! A social question before the Social Question – Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century Deadline 31 December 2025 voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

Congratulations to Mrinalini Wadhwa of our MPhil in Intellectual History (and @magdalenoxford.bsky.social) on a fascinating blog post @jhideas.bsky.social!

📝 New Blog Post! 📝 Check out this new @voltaire.ox.ac.uk blog post by Nicholas Cronk, celebrating our recent acquisition of a rare printing of Voltaire's Candide, from 1791. Read on to learn more about the novel itself and the history of its publication, as well as more details on our new edition!

Don’t miss our DPhil student Harun Ali's thorough introduction to a posthumous essay by the great J. G. A. Pocock! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ah, the seventeenth century, when the dream was not artificial but Human General Intelligence, revealed by art.

Congratulations to Mrinalini Wadhwa of our MPhil in Intellectual History (and @magdalenoxford.bsky.social) on a fascinating blog post @jhideas.bsky.social!

The recent issue of the JHI includes an article by Ingrid Schreiber: "Egoism and Sociability in the Kantian Public Sphere" muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Our August issue, 29.4, is now available online! This issue opens with an open-access article by Yonatan Glazer-Eytan and Giuseppe Marcocci, "Material Culture and Early Modern Archivality: A Dialogue." brill.com/view/journal...

📢 New Blog Robert James Taylor, '"Dropping Out" as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/drop...

📢 New on FirstView! Faridah Zaman (@faridahzaman.bsky.social‬) examines portraits of Indian pan-Islamists who advocated for more lenient terms for the Ottoman Empire in Europe in 1920, showing how the Muslim world emerged as a heterotopic space. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

Congrats to Ingrid Schreiber, a recent DPhil @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @wadhamcollege.bsky.social, on the publication of her fascinating article in the august @jhideas.bsky.social, re-examining recent attempts to view Kant as a social (or proto-sociological) thinker. doi.org/10.1353/jhi....

The Eighteenth-Century Studies Collection offers over 700 volumes from two perpetual access digital collections and includes a complete archive of all content published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series between 1955–2021. Find out more > bit.ly/digital-enli...

An honor and a pleasure to meet @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social at last and to talk about the slipperiest of topics, civility!

📢 New Blog Robert James Taylor, '"Dropping Out" as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/drop...

📢 Call for Papers | Deadline 1 July intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/reform...

New Blog Read the final blog in our 'Democratic Identity' series | Anne Heyer, 'Searching for “Demokratin”? The Curious Case of Women Democrats in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany' You can now read all the posts in this series on our website ⬇️ intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/sear...

There's still time to sign up for next week's graduate conference! See below for details ⬇️ intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...

The Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History will take place on 24 June 2025 at 9am. To register, please click this link: ptih-graduate-conference.eventbrite.co.uk Visit our website for more details: www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/future-event...

I wrote on Barbara Ward for the intellectual history blog of Oxford uni, happy to share these early thoughts about this influential international thinker.

📢 New Blog Or Rosenboim (@orrosenboim.bsky.social) explores 'Planetary Orders and Global Divisions in the Political Thought of Barbara Ward' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/plan...

Registration for our annual graduate conference is now open! To join us on the 5th of June, please register below ⬇️ intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...

The Dacre Lecture 2025 John Ma (Columbia): 'Notes for a history of sexualities in the Hellenistic age' Friday 16 May - 17.00, Corpus Christi College, Oxford intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/john-m...

How to think with/about Hannah Arendt: authors of recent books on Arendt, @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social & Thomas Meyer, in conversation with Sophie West, Tuesday 13 May, 4pm, Christ Church Research Centre. Links to the books in the first comment. intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/hannah...

The Betty Behrens Seminar goes on at Clare Hall, Cambridge, discussing the works by Polybius, Orosius, Bryce and Bloch, presented by J. Marincola, V. Leonard, R. Evans and C. Ginzburg | @camhistory.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @oxfordcih.bsky.social @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social

📢 New Blog In the latest blog in our 'Democratic Identity' series, Anne Engelst Nørgaard discusses 'The Anti-Elitist Democrat, Jens Andersen Hansen' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

Places are still available for Multidisciplinary Mill(s), a conference on Tuesday May 20, dedicated to the ideas and influence of all the Mills: John Stuart Mill, James Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill and Helen Taylor. Register below ⬇️ intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/multid...

This looks fantastic!

This Friday! All welcome.

Book tickets to the Lyell Lectures here: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lyell-lectur.... Online attendance available! Thursday 1 May: Shirkspaces: Where don’t George Gissing’s characters write? (...cont)

TODAY, 5pm. We look forward to seeing you @magdalenoxford.bsky.social!

Places are still available for Multidisciplinary Mill(s), a conference on Tuesday May 20, dedicated to the ideas and influence of all the Mills: John Stuart Mill, James Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill and Helen Taylor. Register below ⬇️ intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/multid...

📣 Come join us! 📣 A two-year postdoc in Enlightenment Studies @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and Oxford's lively community of researchers working on the long 18thC @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, Modern Languages, and beyond. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Applications welcome by 30 May.

New job at Oxford - do please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

📢 New Blog In the latest blog in our 'Democratic Identity' series, Anne Engelst Nørgaard discusses 'The Anti-Elitist Democrat, Jens Andersen Hansen' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

It's here!! If you've got institutional access to Oxford Academic, you can read Teaching Gender now! academic.oup.com/book/59787

This was such a great session! Thanks again to @raioxford.bsky.sociaitfor hosting us 🙏🏻Read all about it! 📰 👇🏻

📢 New Blog Reflections on a recent roundtable by Claire Rydell Arcenas, Emily Jones (@jonesemily.bsky.social), and Glory Liu, on 'Liberalism, Conservatism, and Reception History' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/roun...

📢 New Blog Read the latest post in our 'Democratic Identity' series: Andriy Zayarnyuk, 'A Peasant Democrat in the 1848 Revolution?' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/a-pe...

New episode for you today, an episode with Howard Hotson! In which hear about the Republic of Letters: its importance for the history of ideas, it geographic breadth, who was involved, and the contributions of figures including Leibniz and Hartlib. www.historyofphilosophy.net/republic-of-...

📚 Book Launch | Friday 7 March, 17.30 Alan Strathern, Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450-1850 intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/alan-s...

We are hiring TWO political theorists as well as a PPE position which is open to theorists (focus on history of economic thought) - please apply and circulate! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-...

A full house to welcome Quentin Skinner to the Oxford Political Thought Seminar to discuss his new book: Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal

A full house to welcome Quentin Skinner to the Oxford Political Thought Seminar to discuss his new book: Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal

The fabulous Quentin Skinner! With an exciting new book, don't miss this, Oxford and environs!

The theme of this year's Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference - Anachronism and History - couldn't be more timely... Please see below for more details.

📢 New Blog Read the latest post in our 'Democratic Identity' series: Cody James Inglis, 'Democracy or Popular Government? The Political Thought of Mihály Táncsics in the Vormärz' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/demo...

Call for Papers: Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025 This year's theme is 'Anachronism and History'. Deadline for applications is 20 April 2025. Submit an abstract below ⬇️ forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...