The Faculty of History at the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
organises that institution's teaching and research in medieval and modern history. Medieval and modern history has been taught at Oxford for longer than at virtually any other university, and the first
Regius Professor of Modern History was appointed in 1724. The Faculty is part of the
Humanities Division, and has been based at the former
City of Oxford High School for Boys
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on
George Street, Oxford
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since the summer of 2007, while the department's library relocated from the former
Indian Institute
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on
Catte Street
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to the
Bodleian Library
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's
Radcliffe Camera
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in August 2012.
Research groups
*Britain and Europe Group
*Centre for Early Modern British and Irish History
*
Centre for the History of Childhood
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*Late Antique & Byzantine Studies
*Modern European History Research Centre
*OxCRUSH: Oxford Centre for Research in United States History
*Oxford Centre for Medieval History
*Research Cluster in History of Science, Medicine and Technology
*Wellcome Unit for History of Medicine, Oxford
Notable academics
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Martin Biddle
Martin Biddle, (born 4 June 1937) is a British archaeologist and academic. He is an emeritus fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. His work was important in the development of medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain.
Early lif ...
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John Blair
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Judith M. Brown
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Averil Cameron
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Richard Carwardine
Richard John Carwardine (born 12 January 1947) is a Welsh historian and academic. He specialises in American politics and religion in the era of the American Civil War.
The professor is best known for his work on President Abraham Lincoln an ...
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Thomas Charles-Edwards
Thomas Mowbray Charles-Edwards (born 11 November 1943) is an emeritus academic at the University of Oxford. He formerly held the post of Jesus Professor of Celtic and is a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College.
Biography
He was educated at ...
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Barry Cunliffe
Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, (born 10 December 1939), known as Barry Cunliffe, is a British archaeologist and academic. He was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007. Since 2007, he has been an Emeri ...
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Norman Davies
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Robert John Weston Evans
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R. F. Foster
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Timothy Garton Ash
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Robert Gildea
Robert Nigel Gildea (born 12 September 1952) is professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and is the author of several influential books on 20th century French history.
Biography
Robert Gildea was born on 12 September 1952. He ...
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Pekka Hämäläinen
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Brian Harrison
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Peter Harrison
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Felicity Heal
Felicity Margaret Heal, (born 24 September 1945) is a British historian and academic, specialising in early modern Britain. From 1980 to 2011, she was a lecturer at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. She had previou ...
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Daniel Walker Howe
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Martin Kemp
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He is the younger brother of Gary Kemp, who is also a ...
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Yasmin Khan
Yasmin Khan is a historian of British India and Associate Professor of History at Kellogg College, Oxford.
Education and career
Born in 1977 to Pakistani and Anglo-Irish parents in Kingston-upon-Thames, Khan completed her BA in history at S ...
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Alan Knight
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Paul Langford
Paul Langford FBA FRHistS (20 November 1945, Bridgend – 27 July 2015) was a British historian. From 2000 until late 2012 he was the rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, succeeded by professor Henry Woudhuysen.
Educated at Monmouth School and He ...
*Sir
Colin Lucas
Sir Colin Renshaw Lucas, (born 25 August 1940) is a British historian and university administrator. From 1997 to 2004, he was the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. In May 2006, he was appointed Chair of the Board of the British Library for ...
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Diarmaid MacCulloch
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Margaret MacMillan
Margaret Olwen MacMillan, (born 1943) is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford. She is former provost of Trinity College, Toronto, and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson Univer ...
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Henry Mayr-Harting
Henry Maria Robert Egmont Mayr-Harting (born 6 April 1936) is a British medieval ecclesiastical historian. From 1997 to 2003, he was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford and a lay canon of Christ Church, Oxford.
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Avner Offer
Avner Offer (born 1944) is an economic historian who held the Chichele Professorship in Economic history at the University of Oxford, England. He is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a fellow of the British Academy. He has publis ...
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Francis Robinson
Francis Christopher Rowland Robinson CBE, DL, FRAS (born 23 November 1944 in Barnet) is a British historian and academic who specialises in the history of South Asia and Islam. Since 1990, he has been Professor of History of South Asia at the ...
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Lyndal Roper
Lyndal Anne Roper (born 1956) is a historian. She was born in Melbourne, Australia. She works on German history of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and has written a biography of Martin Luther. Her research centres on gender and the Ref ...
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George Rousseau
George Sebastian Rousseau (born February 23, 1941) is an American cultural historian resident in the United Kingdom.
Early life and education
George Rousseau was educated at Amherst College and Princeton University, where he obtained his docto ...
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Robert Service
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Richard Sharpe
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Paul Slack
Paul Alexander Slack FBA (born 23 January 1943) is a British historian. He is a former principal of Linacre College, Oxford, pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, and professor of early modern social history in the University of Ox ...
*Sir
Hew Strachan
*Sir
Keith Thomas
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Christopher Wickham
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Blair Worden
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Notable alumni
(See also the 'Historians' section of the page
List of University of Oxford people in academic disciplines
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Clement Attlee
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, Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom
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Matthew d'Ancona
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, former Editor of the ''
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Norman Davies
Ivor Norman Richard Davies (born 8 June 1939) is a Welsh-Polish historian, known for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom. He has a special interest in Central and Eastern Europe and is UNESCO Professor at ...
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John Gorton
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, Prime Minister of
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Graham Greene
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Dominic Grieve
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, Attorney General of the United Kingdom
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Harald V of Norway
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, King of
Norway
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T. E. Lawrence
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George Osborne
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Chancellor of the Exchequer
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Michael Palin
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Lester B. Pearson
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, Prime Minister of
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John Redwood
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, former
Secretary of State for Wales
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Evelyn Waugh
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Eric Williams
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, Prime Minister of
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Harold Wilson
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, Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom
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