With our very own Cameron Bowman and Ross Moncrieff!

With our very own Cameron Bowman and Ross Moncrieff!

What place has religion in politics? Join us as Prof Mark Goldie reconsiders the thought of John Locke, challenging familiar assumptions about religion, toleration, and public life. 17:00 Wed 10th June Room 00.063 Schwarzman Centre Followed by a drinks reception. Registration: khc.web.ox.ac.uk

On our own behalf, some exciting news! Professor Thomas Wynn appointed as next Director of the Voltaire Foundation voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/pr...

Next Wednesday (13 May), 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social! All welcome.

Don’t miss this term‘s programme of our Enlightenment Workshop! Info here: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

My book is Online! 🥳🥳🥳 Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 represents the culmination of ten years' work. In it, I try to peel back our assumptions about how historiography worked in the German Enlightenment, situating it between the... academic.oup.com/book/62547

As part of the Observatory podcast series, the NOTCOM Team has produced two new episodes. Check them out: - 'Green sickness, the disease of virgins' with Úna Faller notcom.hypotheses.org/6657 - 'Se battre en philosophie' avec @heleneleblanc.bsky.social notcom.hypotheses.org/6991

Today marks four years since the passing of Sir John Elliott (1930-2022). At Oxford, we remember him as a unique model of intellectual generosity and dedication to nurturing the next generation of scholars. www.jhelliotthistoryforum.com @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

For this piece with @voltaire.ox.ac.uk, we argue that French writers' use of names, including in abolitionist lit, mirrored the logic of slavery itself: authors liberally detached these names from the cultures in which they had originated, and turned them into markers for an undifferentiated "Other"

I’m delighted to be delivering the 9th annual Adams Lecture in the Public Humanities at UNC on April 17th, “First Among Equals: Redeeming Equality as a Political Ideal.” Details at the link: philosophy.unc.edu/event/the-ni...

Wow www.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/profess...

Book here your free tickets for David Armitage's lecture on Poland's partition and US independence (13 May): www.ticketsource.co.uk/magdalen-col...

Third lecture now online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l... - on the New Psychology and ideas of the self. (1/2)

📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...

🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford! We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History. This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance” Deadline: 17 Dec 2025 Please share widely!

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....

Four postdoc fellowships at the Turin Humanities Programme on legacies and interpretations of the Enlightenment; applications welcome by 16 Feb 2026.

Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

📣📣📣 Opportunity: Director of the Voltaire Foundation 📣📣📣 We are seeking a Director to lead the Voltaire Foundation, to succeed Professor Nicholas Cronk, and warmly invite applications. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/op...

David Hayton once told me that the best thing a historian can do to be immortally relevant is to produce a scholarly edition of a primary source. Our monographs will be superseded, a good primary edition is permanent. Anyway, here's mine, just out. shorturl.at/xJXNU

Happy to announce the Enlightenment Workshop Programme 2025-26! This year convened by Nicholas Cronk and Jacob Chatterjee (New College). Come for a packed November! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

How universalist was Enlightenment thought? In our 2025 Besterman Lecture, Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) discusses 'The three languages of universalism: thinking globally in the Enlightenment’. Thursday 13 Nov, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social: voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/bester...

The Betty Behrens Seminar resumes at Clare Hall, Cambridge, discussing the works by Benedetto Croce, José de Acosta and Robert Lowth, presented by R. Bellamy, G. Ramos and V. Davis | @camhistory.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @oxfordcih.bsky.social @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians. Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd Please let us know if there are gaps. #Skystorians 1/2

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...

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...