• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Alexander Morrison (New College) , Peter Wilson (All Souls College)
• Timing: Wednesdays, 17:15, unless otherwise stated
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Wednesday 4 May 2016

• 17:15 - New Work in Progress Workshop: Modern
  Louis Halewood, Jack Doyle, Jon Askonas

Wednesday 18 May 2016

• 17:15 - Gender and the History of War (Joint Session with the Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity)
  Karen Hagermann (UNC Chapell Hill/ Netherland Institute for Advanced Study)

Wednesday 1 June 2016

• 17:15 - "Come forward and help us in this emergency": The response of the British Red Cross to Conscription and the Battle of the Somme
  Rosemary Wall (Hull University)

Wednesday 15 June 2016

• 17:15 - New Work in Progress Workshop: Early Modern: The "Artillery Revolution" in the Burgundian Low Countries. Artillery in the Early Modern Anglo-Scottish Border Region. Confession in the Armies of the Thirty Years War. Religion in the Late Stuart Army
  Michael Depreter, Tom Boyd, Ryan Crimmins, Liao Ping

Wednesday 19 October 2016

• 17:15 - Is it Gucci? What Mundane Technologies tell us about Military Innovation and the Balance of Power in the Military Industrial Complex
  Matthew Ford (Sussex)

Wednesday 2 November 2016

• 17:15 - New approaches to early modern warfare
  Lucia Staiano-Daniels (UCLA), Adam Storring (Cambridge), Andrew Tzavaras (Oxford)

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• 17:15 - Violence in the Russian Civil War 1918-21
  Stephen Smith (Oxford)

Wednesday 30 November 2016

• 17:15 - War Elephants and Tanks: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient and Modern Warfare
  Alaric Searle (Salford)

Wednesday 25 January 2017

• 17:15 - The Culture of Naval Warfare c.1845-1945
  Nicholas Rodger (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 February 2017

• 17:15 - 1. Making the System Work: Incorporating Cultural Values in the formation of Roman Auxiliary Cavalry/ 2. “Not only in Judaea”: Josephus on Roman civil war in the Jewish War/ 3. Conscription and Marriage in the Army of Joseph II
  Haley Flagg (St Andrews), Ursula Westwood (University of Oxford), Ilya Berkovich (Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munich)

Wednesday 22 February 2017

• 17:15 - From Defeat to Triumph and then Oblivion: Free French Forces at Stake during World War II
  Guillaume Piketty (Sciences Po)

Wednesday 8 March 2017

• 17:15 - Military History and Teaching War
  Jennie Kiesling (US Military Academy, West Point)

Wednesday 3 May 2017

• 17:15 - Armies and Communities in England 1660-1714
  Hannah Smith (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 17 May 2017

• 17:15 - New Work in Progress: Military-Civil Relations 1800-1918
  Vittoria Princi (University of Oxford), Terrance Cudbird (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 31 May 2017

• 17:15 - Networks of Knowledge Exchange in the Eighteenth Century British Army
  Huw Davies (King’s College London)

Wednesday 14 June 2017

• 17:15 - British Naval Contracting 1815-1860: from Contractor State to Laissez-Faire State?
  Martin Wilcox (University of Hull)

Wednesday 18 October 2017

• 17:15 - The British Fiasco in Norway 1940
  Sir John Kiszely

Wednesday 1 November 2017

• 17:15 - Capital connections: The Dutch fiscal-naval state in comparative perspective (17th-18th centuries)
  Pepijn Brandon (International Institute of Social History, NL)

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 17:15 - Occupation and Empire: The Global Dynamics of the Illiberal Wartime State during the First World War
  John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)

Wednesday 29 November 2017

• 17:15 - Rebuilding Landscapes, Reconstructing Lives: Brandenburg after the Thirty Years War
  Mary Lindemann (Miami)

Wednesday 24 January 2018

• 17:15 - The Ancient Face of Battle
  Please be aware, this paper will include video clips depicting violent acts, both simulated and actual
  Adrastos Omissi (Oxford)

Wednesday 7 February 2018

• 17:15 - U.S. Armor Doctrine in World War II
  Bradley Thayer (Tallinn)

Wednesday 21 February 2018

• 17:15 - War and the British Warfare State in the Twentieth Century
  David Edgerton (KCL)

Wednesday 7 March 2018

• 17:15 - "We feared only that they might run away" - Three Failed Assaults in the Russian Conquest of Central Asia, 1852 - 1879
  Alexander Morrison (Oxford)

Wednesday 2 May 2018

• 17:15 - ‘Mercenaries, Militiamen, and Modernity: the Rhetoric of Military Reform in Nassau c. 1580-1620’ & 'Another Attempt at Greatness: Swedish finances and administration in occupied Poland (1655-1657)’
  Louis Morris (Oxford), Alex Turchyn (Oxford)

Wednesday 16 May 2018

• 17:15 - ‘Forged Through Fire: War and the Democratic Bargain?’
  Frances McCall Rosenbluth (Yale)

Wednesday 30 May 2018

• 17:15 - ‘Glamping with Guns: Louis XIV, the Camp of Compiègne and the Origins of the Modern Military Exercise’
  Guy Rowlands (St Andrews)

Wednesday 13 June 2018

• 17:15 - ‘Royal Engineers, Railways, and the Retreat: Longmoor's Role in Delaying the Japanese Advance through Burma in 1942’
  Michael Charney (SOAS)

Wednesday 17 October 2018

• 17:15 - ‘Remembering and Forgetting Mirambo: Histories of Pre-Colonial War in Modern Africa’
  Richard Reid (Oxford)

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 17:15 - ‘Testing the “Laws of War”: The Russian Army’s Conduct on the Danube Front in the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War’.
  Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania)

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 17:15 - Russian navy 1900-17 & Republican Chinese navy
  Benjamin Eacott (Oxford), Woody Di Wu (Oxford)

Wednesday 28 November 2018

• 17:15 - ‘The Legacy of War: Transitional Justice in Early Modern France’
  David van der Linden (Groningen)

Wednesday 23 January 2019

• 17:15 - ‘Globalising WWII’ - Joint Session with the Oxford Centre for Global History
  Andrew Buchanan (University of Vermont)

Wednesday 6 February 2019

• 17:15 - Money and the First World War
  Jonathan Boff (Birmingham)

Wednesday 20 February 2019

• 17:15 - Bernhard of Weimar as military enterpriser
  Astrid Ackermann (Jena)

Wednesday 6 March 2019

• 14:00 - Graduate students’ presentations and workshop
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 8 May 2019

• 17:15 - 'Theory and Practice of the Laws of War in Seventeenth-Century Europe: The Case of the Desolation of the Palatinate (1688-9)'
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Emilie Dosquet (Strasbourg)

Wednesday 22 May 2019

• 17:15 - ‘Irregular or Insurgent? Constructing a New Face of Battle for America’s Civil War’
  Joint Session with the Rothermere American Institute
  Susan-Mary Grant (University of Newcastle)

Wednesday 5 June 2019

• 17:15 - ‘Forewarned? British Intelligence Assessments of the Communist Threat to Greece, 1944-45’
  Christina Goulter (KCL)

Wednesday 19 June 2019

• 17:15 - ‘The Production of Military Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’
  Klára Andresova (Prague)

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 17:15 - Decolonization’s New Wars: Revisiting the Violent Collapse of Empire
  Martin Thomas (Exeter)

Wednesday 6 November 2019

• 17:15 - Professional, Regimented and Aggressive: British paratroopers and the 1982 Falklands
  Helen Parr (Keele)

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 17:15 - The Human Costs of the Civil Wars in England and Wales, 1642-1710
  Andrew Hopper (Leicester)

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 17:15 - Ethiopia and the Cry Against Gas: Representing and Reacting to Chemical Weapons in the Mid-1930s
  Susan Grayzel (Utah State)

Wednesday 22 January 2020

• 17:15 - Children Writing War in the Nineteenth
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Emma Butcher (Leicester)

Wednesday 12 February 2020

• 17:15 - All the Tsar's Virile Men: Sexuality and Masculinity in the Late Imperial Russian Military
  Siobhán Hearne (Durham)

Wednesday 26 February 2020

• 17:15 - Foreign war and civil war: France in 1652 and the costs of early-modern conflict
  David Parrott (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 March 2020

• 17:15 - PGT and PGR workshop
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 21 October 2020

• 17:00 - Conversation: The Ethics of Writing Modern War
  **FULLY BOOKED**
  Kim Wagner (Queen Mary), Richard Reid (Oxford), Priya Atwal (independent historian and author)

Wednesday 4 November 2020

• 17:00 - Conversation: Artillery, Warfare and the Early Modern State
  All those interested in attending should pre-register by emailing briony.truscott@history.ox.ac.uk
  Michael Depreter (Oxford), Guy Rowlands (St Andrews)

Wednesday 18 November 2020

• 17:00 - Conversation: Reflections on the WWI Centenary
  All those interested in attending should pre-register by emailing briony.truscott@history.ox.ac.uk
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 2 December 2020

• 17:00 - Conversation: The Religious Politics of Military Recruitment in Early Modern Europe
  All those interested in attending should pre-register by emailing briony.truscott@history.ox.ac.uk
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 17:00 - Conversation: ‘Britain and Empire in World War II’
  Ashley Jackson (King’s College, London), Iain Johnston-White (Groningen)

Wednesday 10 February 2021

• 17:00 - Jan van Werth as military enterpriser
  Michael Kaiser (Max Weber Stiftung)

Wednesday 10 March 2021

• 17:00 - Managing British convoys, 1803-15: The Admiralty and Lloyd's
  Roger Knight (Greenwich)

Wednesday 5 May 2021

• 17:00 - Gettysburg, Race and Civil War Memory
  Adam Smith (Oxford)

Wednesday 19 May 2021

• 17:00 - "War and Violence: Understanding Soldiers" Experiences of Combat
  Mark Hewitson (UCL)

Wednesday 2 June 2021

• 17:00 - Consenting to Serve the Sovereign: Military Impressment as Contract Formation, 1625-1649
  Sonia Tycko (Oxford)

Wednesday 16 June 2021

• 17:00 - A Global Approach to Transnational War Volunteering after 1945
  Enrico Acciai (Copenhagen)

Wednesday 20 October 2021

• 17:00 - South East Asia and World War II
  Gregg Huff (Oxford)

Wednesday 3 November 2021

• 17:00 - Small-unit leadership on the Eastern Front during the First World War in the mirror of Alexander Watson’s work on the Western Front
  Roger Reese (Texas A&M)

Wednesday 17 November 2021

• 17:00 - Mapping the impact of the Thirty Years War in Central Europe
  Note this seminar is not in-person but will be held on Zoom, for which please register at the link below
  Peter H Wilson (Oxford), Katerina Tkacova (Oxford), Thomas Pert (Oxford)

Wednesday 1 December 2021

• 17:00 - Military Welfare in early modern Europe
  Ismini Pells (Oxford)

Wednesday 26 January 2022

• 17:00 - Typologies of Resistance: a global approach to anticolonial rebellion in the First World War
  Jonathan Krause (Oxford)

Wednesday 9 February 2022

• 17:00 - The First World War and the making of the modern Mediterranean
  Heather Jones (UCL)

Wednesday 23 February 2022

• 17:00 - Managing Habsburg battlefield medicine during the Ottoman wars, 1717-1792
  Sabine Jesner (Graz)

Wednesday 4 May 2022

• 17:00 - The king’s war at sea: armees and maritime service in fourteenth-century England
  This talk is via Zoom and registration is required
  Andrew Ayton (Keele)

Wednesday 18 May 2022

• 17:15 - Russian Invasion and the Struggle for Ukrainian Identity - Eastern Galicia, 1914
  Alexander Watson (Goldsmiths)

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 17:15 - International Law and Wars of Liberation: Rethinking Human Rights at the End of Empire
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Andrew Thompson (Oxford)

Wednesday 15 June 2022

• 17:15 - The future is certain, it’s the past that keeps changing’: The change of Soviet propaganda during WWII
  Gerald Mako (Cambridge)

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 17:15 - Paper Victories: The Battle of Britain in Nazi Propaganda
  Victoria Taylor (Independent Scholar)

Wednesday 2 November 2022

• 17:15 - The American Scientific-Military State in the Early Nineteenth Century
  Sveinn Jóhannesson (Edinburgh)

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 17:15 - Russian High Command and the Entente Military Strategy, 1914-1917
  Sofiya Anisimova (St Andrews)

Thursday 1 December 2022

• 17:15 - Global History and the Great War: Concepts, Methods, Arguments
  Due to unforeseen circumstances, this seminar has had to be postponed to 1 December
  John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)

Wednesday 25 January 2023

• 17:15 - Rumours of bio-wars: Typhoid and terrorism in Palestine in 1948
  Roderick Bailey (Oxford)

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 17:15 - Mercenaries, Modernity, and the International: Re-evaluating the 19th century 'shift away from mercenary use'
  Malte Riemann (Reading/Sandhurst)

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 17:15 - Russian sieges of Kars in the 19th century
  Candan Badem (Uppsala), Alexander Morrison (Oxford)

Wednesday 3 May 2023

• 17:15 - International Law and Wars of Liberation: Rethinking Human Rights at the End of Empire
  Andrew Thompson (Oxford)

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 17:15 - Beyond Richelieu's Army: perspectives on army, state and society in France, 1620-1660
  David Parrott (Oxford)

Thursday 1 June 2023

• 17:15 - Warfare and European expansion in the Indian Ocean and Pacific, 1450-1850
  Please note this seminar is on Thursday in the Old Library
  Louis Sicking (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Leiden)

Wednesday 14 June 2023

• 17:15 - IR Alchemists and the History Trap
  Brian Linn (Texas A&M)

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 17:15 - From Pariahs to Influencers: Foreigners in the Russo-Ukrainian War
  Kacper Rekawek ((International Centre for Counter Terrorism (ICCT) – the Hague))

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 17:15 - Military Reform and the Movement of Ideas to and from the British Dominions, 1898-1914
  Doug Delaney (Canadian Royal Military College)

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 17:15 - Caring Across Battlefields: Mapping Humanitarian Networks during the Global First World War
  Marina Perez de Arcos (Oxford)

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 17:15 - The Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS: in lockstep for Hitler?
  Ben Shepherd (Glasgow)

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 17:15 - Leuthen: Legacy and Myth
  Thomas G Otte (UEA)

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 17:15 - The Experiences of Refugees during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
  Thomas Pert (Warwick)

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 17:15 - Culpability and conscience in civil war: A new history of armed treason in England, 1199-1352
  Sophie Ambler (Lancaster)

Wednesday 1 May 2024

• 17:15 - Local Authority and Private Enterprise: Provisioning the Habsburg Army from the Seven Years War
  William Godsey (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 17:15 - At the origins of raw materials diplomacy. Saltpeter trade in Renaissance Italy
  Fabrizio Ansani (Exeter)

Wednesday 12 June 2024

• 17:15 - Compulsion, Compliance and Combat: New Perspectives on Napoleonic Conscription
  Graeme Callister (York St Johns)

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 17:15 - The Shadow of the Apocalypse? In Search of a New History of the Second World War
  Jonathan Fennell (KCL)

Wednesday 6 November 2024

• 17:15 - Everyday militarism and the history of British military bases
  Yasmin Khan (Oxford)

Wednesday 20 November 2024

• 17:15 - How the Navy saved Britain 1793-1798
  Rachel Blackman-Rogers (KCL)

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 17:15 - Violent Seas: Experience, Representation, and Technology of Naval Warfare, 1665–1783
  Sarah von Hagen (Göttingen)

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 17:15 - Losing a War of Attrition: Developing Concepts of Warfare and the Realities and Perceptions of Axis Defeat in the Mediterranean War (1940-1943)
  Richard Hammond (Brunel)

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 17:15 - Trading during War. The Baltic in Europe, ca 1550-1850
  Cathleen Sarti (Oxford)

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 17:15 - What was Grand Strategy in World War II—a look at the US policy of "Germany First"
  Philips Payson O'Brien (St Andrews)

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 17:15 - Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies: A Trans-imperial History of Military Labour, 1848–1914
  Philipp Krauer (Cantonal Archives Schwyz)

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:15 - Environmental and Medical Legacies of the East Asian War of 1592-1598
  Duan Baihui (Lancaster)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 17:15 - Empires in Flux: The Global Impact of the Napoleonic Wars
  Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University Shreveport)

Wednesday 22 October 2025

• 17:15 - Military entrepreneurs, foreign soldiers, and Sweden’s wars of emergence 1560–1630
  Jaakko Björklund (Helsinki)

Wednesday 5 November 2025

• 17:15 - A minor power in a total war: Sweden’s system of military procurement during the campaigns against Napoleon, 1805-1807 and 1813-1814
  Patrik Winton (Örebro)

Wednesday 19 November 2025

• 17:15 - Art in the Age of the Maxim Gun: The South African War (1899-1902) and the British Illustrated Press
  Sean Wilcox (Oxford)

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 17:15 - The loyalties of professionals: Black soldiers in the Rhodesian army, 1963-1981
  M T Howard (Independent Scholar)

Wednesday 28 January 2026

• 17:15 - A model occupation. German occupational policy in Brussels and its impact on the First World War - and beyond
  Please note this session is in the Old Library, All Souls College
  Samuël Kruizinga (UV Amsterdam)

Wednesday 11 February 2026

• 17:15 - Mercenaries for Peace: Masculinity, Internationalism, and Pleasure on the Front Lines of Peacekeeping
  Margot Tudor (City)

Wednesday 25 February 2026

• 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)

Wednesday 11 March 2026

• 10:00 - Postgraduate Presentations
  Please note these presentations will take place in the Schwarzman Centre, from 10:00-14:30
  Various Speakers