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Undergraduate Study

Learning tailored to each individual

Undergraduates are offered more than 100 different options, giving students a large amount of freedom to choose their own areas of study. 

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Graduate Study

Stretch your study from c.300 BCE. to the present

The Faculty offers a range of taught graduate courses (Masters) as well as three research-based DPhil options.

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Research

A key centre of historcal research in the UK

The Faculty has a portfolio of C.55 funded research projects and houses 10 research centres operating over a diverse range of topics. 

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Outreach

Find out why Oxford History is right for you

At Oxford, we are committed to ensuring that the most talented and motivated historians join the History Faculty each year, regardless of background. 

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News

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Contents page for the December 1914 issue of The Parents’ Review.

Death, Grief, and the Family during and after the First World War, 1914-1920

16 September 2026
Grief is a complex state of feeling that we will all experience in our lifetime. Yet the historiography has rarely analysed grief, including in the context of the family during the First World War.
Portrait of a Father with His Three Children. Glasgow, 1867

“The father's place in education [is] so important, though by no means easy to define.”

16 September 2026
Conceptions of fatherhood in the Parents’ Review | At the third annual conference of the Parents’ National Education Union (PNEU) in May 1899, historian and educationalist Michael Ernest Sadler argued that the father’s influence in the education of young children was “generally a bad second”.
Bayeux Tapestry

Expert Comment: The Bayeux Tapestry and news headlines of 1066

10 September 2026
With the Bayeux Tapestry back in England for the first time in almost a thousand years, Dr Emily Winkler, Lecturer in Medieval History at Hertford College and St Edmund Hall, and author of Pocket Bayeux Tapestry, looks at what its embroidered scenes still tell us about kings, comets and a cross-Channel world older than either nation.
Professor Martin Conway

Award of Siegfried Landshut Prize, 2026

31 August 2026
The Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS) has announced that the Siegfried Landshut Prize for 2026 will be awarded to Martin Conway
Robert O’Sullivan

New 3-year British Academy Postdoctoral Researcher

26 August 2026
Dr Robert O’Sullivan is a political and social historian of nineteenth-century American and Irish history.

Events

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Alan Strathern Event

Conference: Korea, East Asia and the World: Neo-Confucianism in Comparative Perspective

15 September to 16 September
Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

30 September to 02 October
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Forecasting the weather, between divination and science Antiquity to the present

08 October to 09 October
The D-Day forecast

The D-Day forecast – From synoptic charts to the silver screen

08 October
Catherine Ross (Met Office)
Before the Forecast

Before the Forecast: The Royal Society’s Meteorological Archive as Prelude to the Met Office

08 October
Louisiane Ferlier (Royal Society, London)

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