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A new article by Professor Jane Humphries and Louis Henderson has recently been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Chris Wickham’s work spanned an epic breadth of space and time. His major works are dazzling analyses of the medieval Mediterranean as well as of the Europe beyond it, from the fifth to the twelfth centuries, ranging from Egypt to Iceland. And yet for all the grand scale of some of his books, everything with him began with local ties and communities.

Chris Wickham, whose death was announced last Friday, was one of the world’s leading early medievalists.

Trinity College and History of Art DPhil student Dieu Ly Hoang has been selected as one of the 100 Köpfe der Berliner Wissenschaft — “100 Faces of Berlin Science” — an annual feature highlighting researchers who are shaping the intellectual life of Berlin and beyond.

Unfree Labour and Local Resistance in Africa’s Cocoa Belt, 1890–1990 will investigate the relationship between the expansion of commercial cocoa production and forms of unfree and coercive labour across Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Cameroon.

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.

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”.

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.

The Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS) has announced that the Siegfried Landshut Prize for 2026 will be awarded to Martin Conway

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

Elena Russo has been awarded the Julian Corbett Prize 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.

Newly appointed as incoming Rhodes Professor of American History

We are delighted to welcome Dr Kari Silvola & Dr Kamil Karczewski

Professor Lyndal Roper has been awarded the Holberg Prize 2026

Professor Jussi Hanhimäki appointed as the new Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History

Xintong Cindy Liu graduated with a BA in History of Art in 2025

On 16 and 17 April, an international conference on ‘Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World’ was hosted at St Edmund Hall

An exciting new research project from the Oxford History Faculty

Alex Pykett has been appointed as a new OPEN Visiting Fellow Policy Professional with the History Faculty.

The winner of the inaugural Regius Prize has been announced

New exhibition at Kensington Palace

(1969-2026)

On Monday 20 May, Mansfield College and the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford proudly hosted the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Matt Cook, the Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexualities - the first post of its kind in the UK.

Ryan Aslett has just finished his second year studying Geography at the University of Exeter, Cornwall. He will spend the following year studying at Radboud University in the Netherlands. He is interested in how modern-day austerity has impacted young people's spatialities, social spheres and holistic development.

Shona Roberts is a recent University of Reading History and Politics Graduate, with a keen interest in the development of social and political movements.

Daniel is a second year BA History and Politics student at Magdalen College. He is a disabled student and the first in his immediate family to go to university.

Thomas Coyle is a 2nd Year BA History student at Hertford College. He is the JCR Access Officer at his college and a Mentor at UniReach and Zero Gravity.

Hannah Judge went to her local comprehensive in Ilfracombe, North Devon, before attending St Hilda’s College to study History.

Matilda Fisher is a first year student at St Hilda’s College.