Historia Lectures | Faculty of History

Aimed at students currently studying for A levels or equivalent these lectures are designed to introduce you to new and engaging historical topics and periods. Lecture subjects are drawn from current DPhil candidate research.

Live sessions include an introductory lecture, Q&A and suggested reading materials to help you explore the topic further. Join the mailing list to receive weekly links to the live lectures throughout the Spring Term.

Historia Lectures are recorded and we have an amazing archive of lectures available on our website as a resource for students. Explore past lectures via the links on this page and find your new favourite topic!

Historia Lectures 2026

Lectures take place at 4pm. They will be recorded and uploaded to the page in the week following.

13 January - Studying Climate Change in the Past

Andrew McNey

20 January - The Origins and Importance of the League of Nations

Ben Gladstone

27 January - Policing the Past: State Control over the Archive

Rajaa Sahgal

03 February - Examples to live by: Elizabethan Politics and Classical Rome

Ebrahim Hanifehpour

10 February - Normality and NASA: Culture and Sexuality in the US Cold War

Eszter D Kovacs

24 February - Letter Networks in Byzantium: Digital Mapping Tools and their Uses

Nathan Websdale

3 March - "Dear Daughters of the Nation": Women's Magazines in Colonial India

Meera Trivedi

10 March - Queer Early Modern History: Challenges and Methods

Maayan Aner

17 March - British Hippies, Indian Ideas, and Post-Imperial Memory

Robert Taylor

24 March - Mapping Queer Soviet and Post- Soviet Desire: Spaces of Identity Formation

Ioana Zamfir

2023

Topics include:

Prostitution and Gender in late 16th Century
Transfeminine Activism in 1970’s Britain
War and Caricature 1854 - 1856

2024

Topics include:

Anti-Suffrage Women in Britain, 1880-1914
Missing Women in Antebellum America 1830-1865
Reflections on the Five Senses in Medieval Europe
Cities in the 19th Century American West

2025

Topics include:

Would you survive the Black Death?
Mobility Aids in Early Modern Europe
In the beginning: Genesis and England's Contested Reformation
Discovering Buddhism, 1800-1900