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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 historical 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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At Oxford, we are committed to ensuring that the most talented and motivated historians join the History Faculty each year, regardless of background.

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Valuing five centuries of unpaid breastfeeding in England

20 October 2026

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 (1950-2026): A Portrait

19 October 2026

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.

Dr Teresa Witcombe awarded The Premio del Rey by the American Historical Association

13 October 2026

The Premio del Rey is awarded by the American Historical Association every two years for a distinguished book on Spanish history from 500-1516.

Chris Wickham (1950-2026)

12 October 2026

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

Diệu Ly Hoàng (DPhil History of Art) Named One of Berlin’s ‘100 Faces of Science’

12 October 2026

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.