The Oxford Historian: Issue XVI (2018-19)

Jeremy Catto (1939-2018): A tribute by John Watts

Jeremy Catto was one of the most important and fertile historians of the Late Middle Ages, and particularly of the worlds of learning, religion and government, worlds whose numerous interconnections he delighted in demonstrating.

The Uncomfortable Oxford Tour

Rarely has power not been accompanied by violence and exploitation, and with the global prominence of the city and University, it is unsurprising that this violence must be conceptualised on a global scale.

Newspaper article entitled Are you Mentally unhappy

Sadness in Interwar Britain

In the early-twentieth century, sadness was being reimagined. Change was brought about by the rise of professional psychology, which gave policy-makers new means to shape how citizens felt.

Gandhi Against the Human Race

The language of anti-colonialism has historically been dominated by a desire to acknowledge the humanity and therefore equality of all peoples, its critique often turning on the threat imperialism posed to the lives of its subjects.

The main block of the Union Medical School on Hatamen Street, old Peking, newly opened in 1906.

Medicine and history – a matter of degrees

When I came down from Merton in 1961, a history degree was simply a passport to your first job. Few graduates kept up an interest unless they intended to teach it.

Society, economy and the law in fourteenth-century England

For decades historians have disagreed about the impact of the Black Death of 1348-9. Some have dismissed it as an inconsequential blip in England’s long term historical development, others have regarded it as a turning point in the pathway to modernity.

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