Koch History Centre

Thanks to a generous donation, the Koch History Centre has been inaugurated to provide an institutional home in Oxford for the pursuit of world-class historical research. Housed jointly in Wadham College and the Faculty of History, each year the Centre will select a particular theme for its area of study, appointing a cohort of fellows with expertise in a wide range of periods and regions. The Centre embraces interdisciplinary approaches to history and encourages high-level discussion about the historiographical issues associated with each theme.

Rob Iliffe, Director

Rob Iliffe is Professor of History of Science at Oxford University. He has published extensively on the exact sciences between 1650 and 1850; the history of relations between science and religion; the life and works of Isaac Newton; and the history of scientific expeditions.  He was editor of History of Science from 2002-8 and co-editor of Annals of Science from 2010-2019. He is co-director of the Newton Project, an online digital edition of Isaac Newton’s writings, and is Principal Investigator of a digital project providing a range of resources relating to the history of car manufacture in Cowley, Oxford from the early C20th to today.