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

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 16 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 30 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 3 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 14 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 6 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 19 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 6 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - PGT and PGR workshop
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 21 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 10 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 10 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 5 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 19 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 2 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 16 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 3 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 26 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 4 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 1 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 17 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 18 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 29 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 7 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 21 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 12 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Women Behind the Few: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force in British Air Intelligence During the Second World War
  Sarah-Louise Miller (Oxford)