Thursday 29 January 2025

• 12:30 - Dearth
  Meleisa Ono-George (Oxford), Alice Rio (Oxford)
  WGQ Centre
• 14:00 - (Un)bordering "old" Commonwealth migration after 1962
  Freddy Foks (Manchester)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Lecture 2: Media
  Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life
• 17:00 - The Early Tudor Nobility to 1529: some reflections on a problem
  Dr James Ross (University of Winchester)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 30 January 2025

• 14:00 - Towards a Supernatural History of the British Empire
  John Slight (Open University)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 2 February 2025

• 16:00 - Lithic New York: Scientific Groundings of the Metropolis in the Age of Revolutions (Soils, Surfaces, Depths)
  Stéphane van Damme (MFO)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Nuns’ Financial Literacy and the Private Banking Activities of Female Religious Organisations in the Later Middle Ages
  Anna Molnár (Reading)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 3 February 2025

• 16:15 - “Of myself alone”: Inventing the Written Proposal of Marriage in Long Eighteenth-Century England
  Sally Holloway (Warwick)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Reevaluating the Paris Commune, 1871: Social, Micro-Historical and Global Approaches
  Quentin Deluermoz (Cambridge/Paris Cité)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 2: Coming to Terms
  Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026: The Shape of Democracy

Wednesday 4 February 2025

• 17:00 - Koch History Centre Lecture: Theocracy Now!
  Bethany Moreton
  Koch History Centre Seminars and Events

Thursday 5 February 2025

• 11:45 - Magazine Methodologies Postgraduate Workshop: Subjectivity
  Various Speakers
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 12:30 - Environing from Below — Supplications, Denunciations, and Other Sources for Rewriting Early Modern Environmental History
  Niklas Groschinski (Oxford)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - Falling families: downward social mobility in the middle class, 1840-1930
  Christina de Bellaigue (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Farmyard Medicine and Agricultural Expertise in early modern Britain
  Dr Leah Astbury (University of Bristol)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 3: Self
  Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life

Friday 6 February 2025

• 14:00 - Bureaucracies of Violence: Asians leaving Uganda in 1972
  Ria Kapoor (QMUL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 9 February 2025

• 11:00 - “Fairies and Music, Gipsies and Flowers”: Music Pedagogy and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century Convent School
  Emma Arthur (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:15 - Petitions to Protest: Popular Politics and Its Limits
  Reading Group
  Iberian History Reading Group
• 16:00 - Disease and the Dead Body in Britain in the Long-Eighteenth Century
  Eleanor Kerfoot (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Medieval Racism? Social Practices in Colonial Contact Zones in Greenland and Sápmi (900-1500)
  Cordelia Heß (Aarhus)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 February 2025

• 14:00 - The Case for India: Restating Eighteenth-Century Oriental Despotism from a History of Knowledge Perspective
  Stéphane Van Damme (ENS Paris/MFO), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:00 - Remnants (in collaboration with the Rothermere American Institute)
  Regina Kunzel (Yale)
  WGQ Centre
• 16:15 - The Industrial Revolution as a dramatic event: a review of the evidence
  Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture 3: The Capacity of Power
  Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026: The Shape of Democracy
• 17:00 - Revisiting Labour Protest: Cultures of Conflict and Italian Workers since 1945
  Ilaria Favretto (ILCS, University of London/Kingston)
  Modern European History Seminar

Wednesday 11 February 2025

• 11:00 - Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI
  Reading Group
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 14:00 - Imperial Circulations: Climate Knowledge, Port Labor, and Material Worlds
  Cherry Briggs (Independent Researcher), Alison Bennett (University of Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:15 - Messianism and History: A View from Nineteenth-Century Sudan
  Hengameh Ziai
  Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Dominican Gifts of Mesoamerican Things in Early Modern Italy: Circulation and Reception
  Davide Domenici (University of Bologna)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Civil Servants and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: “Keep People Talking”
  Dr Giada Lagana (Cardiff)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:15 - Mercenaries for Peace: Masculinity, Internationalism, and Pleasure on the Front Lines of Peacekeeping
  Margot Tudor (City)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 12 February 2025

• 14:00 - Love’s labour: a history of childcare
  Emily Baughan (Sheffield)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Lecture 4: State and Economy
  Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life
• 17:00 - ‘Last words: migration, death, and languages in early modern London
  Please note change of room to Lower Lecture Room
  Dr John Gallagher (Leeds)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 13 February 2025

• 14:00 - Italian Fascism, the Holy See and the Nationalist Government During the First Apostolic Delegation to China (1922-1933)
  Chiara D'Auria (UNISA)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 16 February 2025

• 16:00 - Chronic Constitutions: Experts, Disease Risks and Remaking Indian Bodies in Post Colonial India (1940-70s)
  Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem and the Wages of Sin
  Jay Rubenstein (University of Southern California)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 17 February 2025

• 16:15 - The Death of Dragons: Faith and Fairy Tales in early eighteenth-century Taxonomy c.1665-1750
  Thomas Wood (Independent)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture 4: Making Equality
  Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026: The Shape of Democracy
• 17:00 - Rethinking Max Weber’s Politics
  Peter Ghosh (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar

Thursday 19 February 2025

• 11:45 - Magazine Methodologies Postgraduate Workshop: Materiality
  Various Speakers
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 12:30 - Timely Courts and Immediate Responses: Waste Management as a Temporal Issue in Late Medieval England
  Louis James Henry (University of Stavanger/KCL)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - Roundtable on the methodologies and historiographies of ‘The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life’
  Peter Mandler (Cambridge), Various Discussants
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Family Archives in England, 1650-1838: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Making of History
  Dr Imogen Peck (Birmingham)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 5: Self and Society
  Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life

Friday 20 February 2025

• 14:00 - Campaigning and Counter-Insurgency in the Creole Archipelago: The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean
  David Lambert (Warwick)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 23 February 2025

• 11:00 - Setting the Children to Work in Early Modern London: Some Methodological Challenges
  Ian Archer (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:15 - Religious Encounters
  Reading Group
  Iberian History Reading Group
• 16:00 - The Mental After-Care Association, Recovery and Psychotherapy
  Hannah Blythe (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - International commerce and regional development: pepper in the Indian Ocean
  Chris Wickham (Birmingham/Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 24 February 2025

• 16:00 - High Tech Gays v. D.I.S.C.O: Challenging the Straight State in the Corporate Sphere
  Josh Hollands (UCL), Chair: Sarah Knott (Oxford)
  WGQ Centre
• 16:15 - “Will someone please think of the children!”: Child Custody and Mediation in the Court for Matrimonial Causes, 1800-1923
  Jennifer Aston (Northumbria)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture 5: The Sense of Beauty
  Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026: The Shape of Democracy
• 17:00 - Free Public Transport: The View From 1976
  Daniel Gordon (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar

Wednesday 25 February 2025

• 11:00 - Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI
  Reading Group
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 14:00 - Transnational Trade & Labour History
  Camille Neufville (University of Strasbourg), Amrit Deol (California State University, Fresno)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:15 - Christians, Jews, and Muslims' resistance to the Spanish Monarchs in 15th c. Malaga
  Celine Dauverd
  Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Old Customs and the Contest for Jurisdiction over Jews and Muslims in Late Medieval Iberia
  Rodrigo Garcia-Velasco (UCL)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - One History or Many? Transitional Justice Theory and the Politics of Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
  Professor Louise Mallinder (QUB)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:15 - Male bodies for the fatherland. Invalidity and self-mutilation in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy
  Please note this session is in the Old Library, All Souls College
  Julia Heinemann (Antwerp)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Male Bodies for the Fatherland: Invalidity and Self-Mutilation in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
  Joint session with the History of War seminar. Please note the change in regular time and place. This seminar will take place at All Souls College at 17:15 on Wednesday 25 February.
  Julia Heinemann (Antwerp), Chair: Peter Wilson
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 26 February 2025

• 11:45 - Glut
  Content awareness: This session engages methodologically and theoretically with archival materials that may involve sexual violence, reproductive politics, racialised power, gendered harm, and coercion, particularly in contexts where such materials appear in uneven, repetitive, or overwhelming abundance (“archival glut”). While the focus of the session is analytical and methodological rather than descriptive, some themes may nevertheless be challenging. For those who may find it helpful, we also recommend the excellent resources produced by the Challenging Research group, which offer guidance on working with emotionally demanding archives and topics: https://challengingresearch.org/resources/
  Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania, and Koch History Centre), Catherine Sloan (Oxford)
  WGQ Centre
• 14:00 - The Worst Bird in Britain? Gamekeepers, bird protection, and the Little Owl controversy in England, c.1900-1954
  Max Long (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Film Screening: Victim (1961)
  Film screening and discussion
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 17:00 - Lecture 6: Self vs. Society
  Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life
• 17:00 - “Commerce has taught us more humanitie”? Enslaved Black people, Jewish people, and the conditional rightslessness of ‘infidels’ in seventeenth-century England
  Dr Kathleen Commons (Sheffield)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 27 February 2025

• 14:00 - Fascist India: Race, Caste and Hindutva [Book Talk]
  Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University London)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 2 March 2025

• 16:00 - Popular Science Writing: Literary Approaches
  Michael Whitworth (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Insular manuscripts: why membrane matters
  Please note: this session will be in-person only, not hybrid - this is due to restrictions governing the sharing of unpublished results by grant partners
  Jo Story (Leicester)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 3 March 2025

• 16:15 - Undergraduate Thesis session (in-person only)
  Please note this session is in-person only.
  Various Speakers
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture 6: Democratic Form
  Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026: The Shape of Democracy
• 17:00 - Reflections on writing the history of Europe under German occupation during World War II
  Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Wuppertal)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 18:00 - Book Launch: An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail with author Hélène Giannecchini
  Hélène Giannecchini (Author), Discussant: Katie Burke (Oxford), Discussant: Eszter D Kovács (Oxford)
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network

Wednesday 4 March 2025

• 12:30 - By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates
  Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer (University of Toulouse)
  WGQ Centre
• 17:00 - Koch History Centre Lecture: Church, State and Hierarchy
  David d'Avray
  Koch History Centre Seminars and Events

Thursday 5 March 2025

• 11:45 - Magazine Methodologies Postgraduate Workshop: Community
  Various Speakers
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 12:30 - Burning Issues: Fire Management in Metropolitan Los Angeles, 1892-1938
  Jessica Chirboga (Oxford)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign: Race, Healthcare and Citizenship in late Twentieth Century Britain
  Saima Nasar (Bristol)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - First year graduate presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 6 March 2025

• 14:00 - Hobbes the Egyptian: The Leviathan as Anti-Bible
  Robert Yelle (LMU Munich)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 9 March 2025

• 11:00 - Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries in Childhood Studies
  Kiera Vaclavik (QMUL), Sophie Ratcliffe (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:15 - Order of Knowledge
  Reading Group
  Iberian History Reading Group
• 16:00 - The quantification of famine in the British Empire, 1770-1801
  John Lidwell-Durnin (Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Cowries, Cloth and Coins: Currency in Medieval Economic Anthropology
  Nick Evans (Birkbeck)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 March 2025

• 14:00 - Investigations of Women’s Suicides in the County of Henneberg: 1590-1612
  This presentation examines historical sources that address suicide in the early modern period. Although the analysis is academic and contextualised, the subject matter may be upsetting or triggering for some listeners. Audience members are encouraged to prioritise their well-being and step away if needed.
  Louisa Bergold, Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:15 - The Making of Marie Antoinette Style at The V&A
  Sarah Grant (The V&A), Oliver Cox (The V&A)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Artistic Exchanges during the Global Cold War: Algeria and the Eastern Bloc
  Katarzyna Falęcka (Newcastle)
  Modern European History Seminar

Wednesday 11 March 2025

• 10:00 - Postgraduate Presentations
  Please note these presentations will take place in the Schwarzman Centre, from 10:00-14:30
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI
  Reading Group
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 14:00 - Imperial and Postcolonial Regimes of Expertise: Medicine, Development, and Environmental Limits
  Sudarshana Banerjee (University of St Andrews), Rishabh Bajoria (National University of Singapore)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:15 - From Sacrifice to Creation: Two Paradigms of Indian Political Thought
  Salmoli Choudhuri
  Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Title TBC
  Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile (Sorbonne)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Making Ireland Catholic: Morality and Modernity in the Free State
  Fearghal McGarry (QUB)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar

Thursday 12 March 2025

• 14:00 - Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways
  Mattie Armstrong-Price (Fordham University)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 16:00 - Archival Fragments, Experimental Modes in Oxford
  Sara Johnson (UC San Diego), Sarah Knott (Oxford)
  WGQ Centre
• 17:00 - First year graduate presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 13 March 2025

• 14:00 - Students Against Apartheid: Collective Emotions and the Making of a Global Movement
  Daniel Manulak (Toronto & Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 5 May 2025

• 14:00 - Toward a History of Misunderstandings: The Missionaries’ Dilemma
  This talk has been rescheduled from Michaelmas Term. Please note the change of venue
  Peter Burke (Cambridge), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Early Modern World Seminar