The History Faculty has great strength in research and teaching on twentieth century Britain and Europe, with nearly forty historians working on Great Britain and Ireland, France, Spain, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and former Soviet Union, the Balkans and the First and Second World Wars in this most violent and controversial century. They practise a wide variety of approaches, from political history and the history of war to religious, cultural and gender history, to intellectual history and the history of ideas, and to the history of science and medicine. The focus of their work ranges from the local and urban to the national, imperial and post-imperial, and increasingly to the international and transnational.

There is a vibrant seminar culture with one modern British History seminar, two modern European History seminars and a German History seminar. Research initiatives are generated by the Modern European History Research Centre, and many links have been established with research centres and networks in Europe, the United States and elsewhere.

Academic staff

Research Centres

MEHRC

Funded projects

Around 1968: Activism, Networks, Trajectories
The Changing Character of War
Identinet: The Documentation of Individual Identity
Towards a New History of the League of Nations (info to come)
Development and Security in World History, 1919-1969 (info to come)
Transnational Networks in Agriculture, Food, Environment and Heath

Research Resources

http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/28783/modernsources.pdf