The Modern European History Research Centre (MEHRC), based in Oxford University’s History Faculty, was set up in 1999 to generate new and exciting research projects in European and British history from the Renaissance to the present, to build research networks with research institutes and universities in the UK, Europe and worldwide, to provide opportunities for research collaboration and facilities for visiting scholars, and to train new generations of research students in the field of modern European and British History.

The Centre encourages international collaboration between research students through annual graduate workshops held in conjunction with the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Paris, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Humboldt University, Berlin, and with  Geneva University. It is supported by around forty leading historians at Oxford, from which it draws its management committee. This is headed by the Chair, Professor Ruth Harris, Research Director, Dr. Tom Buchanan and supported by the Administrator, Jane Cunning.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS:

MEHRC Annual Special Lecture 2012

Trinity Term 

will be given by

John Davis

(Emiliana Pasca Noether Professor of Modern Italian History, University of Conecticutt.)

on Tuesday 8th May 5pm

 Lecture Theatre ▪ Faculty of History

'Made in England.

Britain, Empire and Italian Unification'

Poster

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Transnational and Global Approaches to the History of the Left

A workshop sponsored by the University of Stockholm and the Modern European History Research Centre (MEHRC), University of Oxford
Saturday 28th April 2012

Venue: Mawby Meeting Room, Kellogg College, 60-62 Banbury Rd, Oxford.

Convenors: Dr Tom Buchanan (Kellogg College/MEHRC)
and Aryo Makko (Stockholm University/MEHRC)

Attendance is free of charge, but please contact Tom Buchanan in advance to reserve a place.
(tom.buchanan@conted.ox.ac.uk)


poster

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Conference supported by MEHRC:

"EARLY MODERN MERCHANTS AS COLLECTORS"

Ashmolean Museum
15 & 16 June 2012

In 1615, Vincenzo Scamozzi highlighted the importance in Venice of the merchant-collectors Bartolomeo dalla Nave and Daniel Nijs by including descriptions of their collections in his L’Idea della architettura universale. Scholarship has also moved beyond consideration of the artist and the patron as the principal protagonists in the history of collecting to regard merchants as influential collectors in their own right. This interdisciplinary conference will explore early modern merchants as collectors across a wide range of geographical regions and collecting categories, investigating whether there are any patterns connecting these merchant-collectors of the early modern period and what theoretical frameworks can be applied to them.

http://earlymodernmerchants.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/

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RESEARCH NETWORKS

The MEHRC has established networks with other research universities and research institutes from Princeton to Sydney. It has partnerships with Oslo University’s Forum for Contemporary History exploring aspects of the foundation of the modern world, with Uppsala University investigating state-formation, nation and gender, and with Bielefeld University. It is part of EurHistXX - European Network of Contemporary History, funded by the French CNRS, which links ten major historical research centres in Europe, from Dublin to Budapest, and is developing a comparative project on the three postwar periods(1918, 1945 and 1989).

For further information see:  

Research Networks

RESEARCH PROJECTS

The MEHRC develops and seeks funding for a succession of projects in modern European and British history from the seventeenth century to the present. The emphasis is on comparative, international and transnational projects. Recent and ongoing projects include ‘Intellectual Networks and Further Reformation in Central and Western Europe, 1570-1660’, ‘Towards a New Understanding of Community, Nation and Empire in the Nineteenth Century’ and ‘Around 1968: Activism, Networks, Trajectories’. These projects have attracted significant research income from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust and the John Fell Oxford University Press Fund

For further information see:  

Research Projects   


  

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES 

Major international conferences have been organised, often tied in to significant commemorations. These include ‘The International Consequences of Religious Heterodoxy in Europe, 1650-1750’, the Holy Roman Empire on the second centenary of its dissolution in 1806, and Spanish Civil War seventy years on.

More recently a conference"Writing Europe into the World. 1880-2010" held in May 2010 was the last in the Oxford-Oslo collaborative programme, and organised by Patricia Clavin (Oxford) and Helge Pharo (Oslo).

For further information see:  

International Conferences

VISITING RESEARCHERS

The Centre welcomes visiting scholars who are working in areas related to its own research interests. These may be appointed Senior or Junior Visiting Scholars, provided with research facilities and encouraged to participate in seminars and workshops within the Faculty. Visitors need a sponsor within the History Faculty and should apply in writing for the small number places available each year.



For further information see:

Visiting Researchers at the MEHRC

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
 

A number of Early Careers Fellows, particularly those with keen involvement in the research work of the Faculty of History, are invited to become MEHRC Research Associates for the duration of their tenure with the University of Oxford and the Faculty. The group share ideas, engaging with relevant themes, organising workshops and forums to promote MEHRC collaborations and facilities within the University.

Current MEHRC RAs:
Bronwen Everill, Gabriel Glickman, Stella Moss, Freya Cox-Jensen, Jan Machielsen and Christina Anderson.

GRADUATE TRAINING AND RESEARCH

The MEHRC supervises a two-year postgraduate research degree, the M.Phil in Modern European History. This offers training in historical methods, theory and writing, a range of specialised options in modern European and British history, the opportunity to undertake archival research in the UK or on the continent, and a final-year dissertation workshop.

For further information see:

Introducing the M.Phil