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OxPods Podcast · OxPods · The podcast by Oxford students and their professors. OxPods aims to create thought-provoking and easily digestible podcast episodes, made for anyone with an interest in the world ...

I’ve also been producing podcast interviews with @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social academics with OxPods for the past few years, with a few still to go before I graduate.

I’ll post about each of my podcasts soon but here’s the full feed if you want to have a look: open.spotify.com/show/2sZa7WT...

24.05.2025 09:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Photos from The Inaugural Lecture of the Jonathan Cooper Chair of History of Sexualities which was held at our College on Tuesday 23 May.

📸: Andrew Bailey

@ox.ac.uk
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27.05.2025 11:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Professor Venus Bivar - Embedding humanities in the environment Venus Bivar, Associate Professor of Environmental History, discusses her career and the importance of embedding the humanities in the environment.

🌍 | Venus Bivar, Associate Prof of Environmental History @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social explores the history, politics and human dimensions of climate change.

Discover more about her work, and how humanities can contribute to tackling the climate crisis ⬇️
www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-...

#OxfordClimate

04.06.2025 09:09 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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2025 Terra Lectures in American Art: UNSETTLED GROUND 'Indigenous Pictorialism'

Watch the final Terra Lecture in American Art here!

'Indigenous Pictorialism: Richard Throssel’s Portrait of Apsáalooke Nation'

Thank you Professor Erin Pauwels for such an inspiring and engaging series!

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/2025-t...

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09.06.2025 13:40 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Laura Flannigan's new book 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth' has been shortlisted for the RHS First Book Award!

www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/laur...

10.06.2025 11:20 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Oxford Humanities team delivers framework for tackling modern slavery Prof. Andrew Thompson, a leading expert in global and imperial history in the Faculty of History at Oxford University, has presented a new Framework of Analysis for Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking

NEW: @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social's Prof Andrew Thompson has presented a new Framework of Analysis for Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking at the United Nations in New York.

Find out more ⬇️

09.04.2025 08:58 — 👍 23    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2
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Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Working on an essay, dissertation, research project or conference proposal? Check out our videos and guides on using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)

14.04.2025 11:03 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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How can humanities research speak to the needs of present policy?

Join the conversation with Professors Patrick Salmon and Patricia Clavin! @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social

🗓️ Tuesday 25 February, 17:00 - 18:30

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/be4...

04.02.2025 12:21 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Koch Junior Fellowship in History

Apply now to be one of our first Koch Fellows in History!

Deadline: Wednesday 26 February 2025

Find out all the details here:

www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/koch-j...

06.02.2025 12:00 — 👍 9    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 2
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The Koch History Centre (KHC): A new Historical Research Centre at Oxford

The Faculty of History and @wadhamcollege.bsky.social are excited to announce the establishment of the Koch History Centre (KHC), which will provide an institutional home in Oxford for the pursuit of world-class historical research!

Find out more:

www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

04.02.2025 10:09 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Richard Reid - The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2025)

OUT NOW!

Professor Richard Reid's new book 'The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century' - A panoramic global history of Africa in the age of imperialism.

www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

29.01.2025 11:41 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Lyndsey on the left and Joyce on the right

Lyndsey on the left and Joyce on the right

Dr Lyndsey Jenkins (@teadevotee.bsky.social) (pictured left), Mansfield's History Fellow (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) has won a £215k AHRC grant for her project on Joyce Butler (pictured right) and women’s rights in the 1950s-70s. 🎉

Find out more here: www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

24.01.2025 13:10 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Join us for a screening and post watch discussion of Derek Jarman’s seminal and final film, ‘Blue’.

Monday 27th January, 5pm-7pm
St Johns College, 21 St Giles Seminar Room
#queerhistory #queermedia #lgbtqhistory #skystorians

21.01.2025 12:38 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Check out our Hilary term program! It's a particularly exciting one, if we do say so ourselves, with a film screening, a roundtable on new approaches to Shakespeare and much more. Everyone is welcome 💗 🌟🏳️‍🌈
#queerhistory #oxford #lgbtqhistory #queerstudies #skystorians

13.01.2025 12:07 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army? Dr Helen Gittos' new research argues that early medieval soldiers were recruited from Britain into the Byzantine army in 575AD and fought against the Sasanians in modern-day Syria.

Read Dr Helen Gittos' new research paper - Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?

‘This is the most exciting thing I’ve written: the more I researched, the more pieces of evidence fitted into place.’

www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/sutt...

13.01.2025 10:57 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The Carlyle Lectures For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism - Prof Eric Nelson (Robert M. Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University)

Join us for The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism (Professor Eric Nelson, Harvard University)

Tuesdays at 5pm, starting 4th February

www.history.ox.ac.uk/carlyle-lect...

09.01.2025 11:25 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?* Abstract:. The Sutton Hoo ship burial is one of the most famous examples of a group of lavishly furnished graves of the late sixth and early seventh centur

New Article! Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social on 'Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?'

academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

03.01.2025 15:23 — 👍 227    🔁 94    💬 10    📌 24

Keen for more news in the humanities from the University of Oxford?

Check out our starter pack of departments, faculties and institutes across the Humanities Division: go.bsky.app/E4B5y39

16.12.2024 11:54 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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We are looking forward to attending a lecture by Abigail Green from @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, organized by the Martin Buber Institut, next week. She will talk about Jewish Liberal Activism from 1848-1948. Thank you for the opportunity!
@arvidschors.bsky.social @martguenzel.bsky.social

03.12.2024 15:03 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Hayek's The Road to Serfdom Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny

Listen to In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to hear Professor Ben Jackson discuss Austrian-British economist Friedrich Hayek's 'The Road to Serfdom' (1944).

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

03.12.2024 12:16 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Associate Professorship of Digital Scholarship at University of Oxford Discover an exciting academic career path as a Associate Professorship of Digital Scholarship at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Job Klaxon: @OxHumanities, in association with @JesusOxford, seeks to appoint an Associate Prof in #DigitalScholarship
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR133/a...

This is fantastic news & an amazing opportunity to join & work with the vibrant creative digital scholarship community in Oxford.

28.11.2024 22:20 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for your message! I am currently talking to the event organiser to find out whether the lectures will be recorded/ livestreamed - watch this space!

29.11.2024 10:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Job alert!

The Faculty of History is seeking applications from leaders in the field of global and imperial history, broadly defined, for the position of Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History.

Deadline: 12.00 noon UK time 13 Jan 2025

www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/beit-p...

27.11.2024 10:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history/lgbt...

the link we shared yesterday with information on our LGBTQ+ Hackathon wasn't working (thank you @saranadosfiction.com for the heads up!). Please see above. Thank you!

27.11.2024 09:59 — 👍 20    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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The James Ford Lectures in British History are coming to Examination Schools in January 2025!

Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University) will be speaking on French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c. 1100-c. 1500 starting Thursday 23rd January.

See you there!

21.11.2024 15:59 — 👍 29    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 4

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