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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. 

Outreach

News

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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.
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Julian Corbett Prize 2026 by the Institute of Historical Research (London)

24 August 2026
Elena Russo has been awarded the Julian Corbett Prize 2026
Image: American Red Cross, France, Havoc of War - Refugees - France - Demonstration for the mothers and teachers are held daily at the Child-Welfare exhibition, Toulouse, France, under the auspices of the A.R.C (1918), Wikimedia Commons

Centre for the History of Childhood Colloquium 2026 – ‘Charity, Humanitarianism and Childhood’

03 August 2026
This year’s colloquium on Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood at the Centre for the History of Childhood took a closer look at the tight knot that binds humanitarianism to the history of childhood.

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

09 October
Professor Ian McBride

The Lessons of the Northern Ireland Peace Process

15 October
Ewen Green Memorial Lecture
The future isn't neutral

The future isn't neutral: Race, fairness and equality in the age of AI

21 October
6th Annual Black History Month Lecture

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