Research Groups and Clusters

• Britain and Europe Group
• Centre for Early Modern British and Irish History
• Centre for the History of Childhood
• Global History Research Centre
• Late Antique & Byzantine Studies
• Modern European History Research Centre
• OxCRUSH: Oxford Centre for Research in United States History
• Oxford Centre for Medieval History
• Research Cluster in History of Science, Medicine and Technology
• Wellcome Unit for History of Medicine, Oxford
• Cantemir Institute

Alphabetical List of History Faculty Research Projects

The following are a selection of research projects of members of the Faculty; indicating particularly those in receipt of external funding.

Current research projects:

• Abraham Lincoln as a Global Figure
• Around1968: Activism, Networks, Trajectories
• Battle for Coexistence: The Impact of Zionism on Inter-Confessional Relations in Syria and Lebanon, 1917-1982
• The Changing Character of War
• China's War with Japan
• The Chronicle of Seert and Christian Political Thought in Late Antique Iraq (c.500-700)
• A Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues; Anglo-Norman Acta
• A critical edition of St Anselm's letters
• Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters
• The Dissenting Uses of History in the Restoration
• The Documentation of Individual Identity: A Historical and Comparative Study
• Estimation of the Gold Coin Output of the Byzantine Sicilian Mint from the 7th to the 9th Century
• Everyday life and fatal hazard in sixteenth-century England
• Exports, Ethnicity and Labour: State Formation and Market Development in Latin America, 1820-1945

• "Freedom is not enough" The struggles for racial equality throughout the United States,1861-2005
• From Social Democracy to Markey Liberalism, c. 1970-2011
• The Gascon Rolls 1317-1468
• A History of Irish Women in the Twentieth Century
• Holy Ground: the Creation and Desecration of Sacred Space in Medieval Europe
• The Last Statues of Antiquity
• Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (MLGB3)
• Noblewomen of the Anglo-Norman March of Wales
• The Norman Conquest of England: A History of its History
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Peasants, Poverty and Politics. The Emergence of Agricultural Labour Regulation on a Global Scale, 1930-1960
• Scottish Towns and Urban Society in the Enlightenment, c.1745-1820
• Sources of the Sacred: Migration, Modernity & Religious Identity in Global London
• Tudor Diplomatic Culture
• Varieties and uses of print in Ireland, 1680-1800
• History of the League of Nations

Completed research projects:

• Children of the State: Care and Control 1880-1939: A study of policy and practice in the insitutional care of children deemed at risk
• A Catalogue of Manuscripts of the Liber Extra in British libraries
• England and the Netherlands: War and State Formation, 1477-1559
• The League of Nations and International Economic Relations, 1927-1946
• The Making of Polities in Later Medieval Europe, 1300-1500
• Making Order in the Post-war World: A Comparative Study of Europe and East Asia in the 1940s and 1950s
• Mobilizing the Movement: World War II and the struggle for racial equality
• Piecing Together the Atlantic World, 1600 – 1900
• Power, Authority, and Cultural Exchange 1380-1570: Britain and the Netherlands
• Prosopography - resource development
• The Nation in the Town: Nationalism and the Reconstruction of German communities, 1860-1900
• Victorian Social Reform: A Bibliography of the Published Papers of the Social Science Association 1857-86
• When my brethren suffer: The life and times of Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885)

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