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Recent Publications

The academics who are involved with the History Faculty are constantly researching their subject and producing work based on this research. Below you will find some of their most recent publications.

The University: a history in stone, silk, and blood

The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood

08 September 2026
William Whyte
Cooking for the Quarters

Cooking for the Quarters: Enslaved Women and the Labor of Care in the Antebellum South

20 August 2026
Emily West
The Lifesavers

The Lifesavers: The Trailblazers of the Second World War Who Took Blood into Battle

25 June 2026
Roderick Bailey
Cover ofEssay competitions in the long eighteenth century: Writing to win the prize

Essay competitions in the long eighteenth century: Writing to win the prize

16 June 2026
Avi S. Lifschitz, Martin Urmann (eds.)
Needs That Bind

Needs That Bind: Materializing Nationality in Post-Ottoman Regimes

01 April 2026
Dr Orçun Can Okan
Oxford handbook of revolutionary elections

The Oxford Handbook of Revolutionary Elections in the Americas, 1800–1910

01 April 2026
Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbó (ed.) & Andrew W Robertson (ed.)
Oxford handbook of revolutionary elections

The Oxford Handbook of Revolutionary Elections in the Americas, 1800–1910

01 April 2026
Eduardo Posada-Carbó (ed.)
A Queer Scrapbook of Britain and Ireland

A queer scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945

01 March 2026
Edited by Justin Bengry, Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings & E-J Scott
Writing Queer History

Writing Queer History

19 February 2026
Matt Cook
The Rise of Christian Kingship in the Early Medieval West book cover

The Rise of Christian Kingship in the Early Medieval West

05 February 2026
Dr Conor O'Brien
Front cover of Feeding Medieval England

Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300

21 November 2025
Professor Helena Hamerow
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Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam

28 October 2025
Professor Faisal Devji
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The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642

16 September 2025
Dr Jonathan Healey
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Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World

09 September 2025
Professor Emeritus John Blair
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At the Rising of the Moon: The Peasantry and Ireland from the Tudor Conquest to the fall of Landlordism

05 September 2025
Professor Marc Mulholland
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The Wars of the Roses: A Medieval Civil War

04 September 2025
Professor John Watts
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On the Edge of Christendom: Maurice of Burgos and the Church and Culture of Medieval Castile

22 August 2025
Dr Teresa Witcombe
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The London Private Banker: A Social History, 1660–1825

21 August 2025
Dr Perry Gauci
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An Accidental History of Tudor England: From Daily Life to Sudden Death

19 June 2025
Professor Steven Gunn & Dr Tomasz Gromelski
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Gettysburg

08 May 2025
Professor Adam Smith
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The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume I: A Broken Chain?

28 April 2025
Professor George Garnett
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Other Voices in Soviet History: Collected for a Devil’s Advocate

11 April 2025
Professor Emeritus Dan Healey (ed.)
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The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968–1989

21 March 2025
Dr Matt Myers
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Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid

18 March 2025
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie
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The Forger's Creed Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China

01 March 2025
Professor J.P. Park
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Photo Archives and the Place of Photography

24 February 2025
Professor Geraldine Johnson
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Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War

13 February 2025
Regius Professor Emeritus Lyndal Roper
The African Revolution

The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century

28 January 2025
Professor Richard Reid