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

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 @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...

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...

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! www.communityhistory.ox.ac.uk

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...

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 @ox.ac.uk @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

🌍 | 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 ⬇️ www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-... #OxfordClimate

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! www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/2025-t... @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

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...

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. Find out more ⬇️

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)

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 talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/be4...

Apply now to be one of our first Koch Fellows in History! Deadline: Wednesday 26 February 2025 Find out all the details here: www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/koch-j...

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-...

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. www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

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/...

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

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 💗 🌟🏳️‍🌈 #queerhistory #oxford #lgbtqhistory #queerstudies #skystorians

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.’ www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/sutt...

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 www.history.ox.ac.uk/carlyle-lect...

New Article! Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social on 'Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

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

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! @arvidschors.bsky.social @martguenzel.bsky.social

Listen to In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to hear Professor Ben Jackson discuss Austrian-British economist Friedrich Hayek's 'The Road to Serfdom' (1944). www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Job Klaxon: @OxHumanities, in association with @JesusOxford, seeks to appoint an Associate Prof in #DigitalScholarship www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR133/a... This is fantastic news & an amazing opportunity to join & work with the vibrant creative digital scholarship community in Oxford.

Job alert! The Faculty of History is seeking applications from leaders in the field of global and imperial history, broadly defined, for the position of Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History. Deadline: 12.00 noon UK time 13 Jan 2025 www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/beit-p...

libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history/lgbt... the link we shared yesterday with information on our LGBTQ+ Hackathon wasn't working (thank you @saranadosfiction.com for the heads up!). Please see above. Thank you!

The James Ford Lectures in British History are coming to Examination Schools in January 2025! Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University) will be speaking on French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c. 1100-c. 1500 starting Thursday 23rd January. See you there!