Oxford University Associate Professor Jonathan Healey’s new book The Blood in Winter explores England on the brink of civil war in 1642, earning strong reviews in both the UK and US ahead of its September release in America.
Oxford University will release the Watson Collection on 15 Aug 2025, marking VJ Day 80. This WWII archive of 2,600 items reveals the story of RAF POW Frank Watson and his wife May, through letters, diaries, photos, and official records.
This new seminar series will be a showcase for the intellectual excitement of the history and archaeology of the medieval period, with a focus on societies, economies and landscapes. Join us throughout May and June 2025!
An historian of the Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland during the mid-seventeenth century, Professor Andrew Hopper's research looks at human costs of the conflict.
Professor Tom Buchanan remembers Professor Angus Hawkins, an historian of modern British politics, the Victorian party system and constitutional change.
Centenary Commission on Adult Education finds that lifelong learning must be a permanent national necessity, an inseparable aspect of citizenship, vital to addressing the huge societal divisions and challenges to democracy we currently face
