The Oxford Historian is the termly e-newsletter from the Faculty of History.
Below you can find the articles from the most recent edition and historical versions, including the printed editions that came out before the Faculty had to move their e-newsletter fully online.
Catherine Jenkinson nominated for Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for the Breakthrough Researcher Award
Catherine Jenkinson has been shortlisted in the 2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for the Breakthrough Researcher Award for ‘Transforming Heritage Research through Exemplary Collaborative Practice’.
A Historic First: Inaugural Lecture of the Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexualities
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.
Regius Valedictory Lecture: Telling Stories: History, Narrative, and the German Peasants’ War, 1525
A reflection on the power of narrative in shapring our understanding of the past - focusing on the German Peasants' War of 1525 on the 500th anniversary of one of its major battles.
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