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Undergraduate Study

Learning tailored to each individual

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 historcal 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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Outreach

Find out why Oxford History is right for you

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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News

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Robert O’Sullivan

New 3-year British Academy Postdoctoral Researcher

26 August 2026
Dr Robert O’Sullivan is a political and social historian of nineteenth-century American and Irish history.
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Julian Corbett Prize 2026 by the Institute of Historical Research (London)

24 August 2026
Elena Russo has been awarded the Julian Corbett Prize 2026
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Centre for the History of Childhood Colloquium 2026 – ‘Charity, Humanitarianism and Childhood’

03 August 2026
This year’s colloquium on Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood at the University of Oxford’s Centre for the History of Childhood took a closer look at the tight knot that binds humanitarianism to the history of childhood.
Professor Johnathan Bell

Professor Jonathan Bell

09 July 2026
Newly appointed as incoming Rhodes Professor of American History
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Two new postdoctoral researchers to the Faculty of History and to Mansfield College

11 June 2026
We are delighted to welcome Dr Kari Silvola & Dr Kamil Karczewski

Events

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Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

30 September to 02 October
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Forecasting the weather, between divination and science Antiquity to the present

09 October

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