Lecture List for Michaelmas Term 2024

This page was last updated on 22/10/2024

Some courses of lectures are entered under more than one section or sub-section, if they are relevant to more than one course in the Preliminary Examination or the Final Honour School.

Undergraduates and graduates are recommended to read through all sections of the list and not to focus narrowly on those specifically designated for particular paper options. Students in Joint Schools are particularly referred to the lists for their other subject, but History undergraduates are also encouraged to browse them according to their particular interests.

Attendance

Many lectures cover courses for which students will be taking tutorials in the same term, but some lecture-courses will take place in a different term from the tutorials, whether later or earlier. Students are encouraged to ensure that they have identified lectures relevant to them. This may particularly apply to lectures for British and European and World History, but also in Trinity Term to a range of other courses. Students are also encouraged to attend any lectures that catch their interest, for their own sake or to guide them in future choices of courses or topics, including for their theses.

Timing of Lectures

Lectures begin on the first possible day after the beginning of Full Term (Sunday 13 October) and run in Weeks 1-8 of term unless otherwise stated. Events shown on this list are generally one hour long unless otherwise stated.

Key to Symbols

O = Open to any university member to attend at any time

A = Open to members of the university upon application; admission at the discretion of the convenor

X = (normally) restricted to members of the university taking the appropriate paper.

Lectures are listed in the following format:

Lecture Title

Lecturer

Date of Lecture

Venue

Special Lectures

Applying various endowments given for the purpose, the University invites distinguished scholars to give series or individual special lectures, on topics current to their research or of general interest. Historians from professors to undergraduates attend these lectures, which are also open more widely, and students are strongly encouraged to take the opportunity to hear what are often the first fruits of new research, which will later become important articles and books.

Ewen Green Memorial Lecture

Histories of Maternal Labour	Prof. S. Knott	Th. 17 Oct 17:00	Auditorium, Magdalen College

Inaugural Lecture of the Professor of Modern History

European Security in Modern Times	Prof. P. Clavin	M. 21 Oct, 17:00	South School, Examination Schools

See the Faculty Website for further details.

Languages for Historians

For those who wish to learn a new language, or improve their existing language skills, the University Language Centre offers students the following options:

Taught classes through the Languages for all pathways in Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Modern Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Materials for independent study: available in some 200 languages.

For further information on language courses or updates on the use of the Library, please check the Language Centre website: https://www.lang.ox.ac.uk/language-courses.

For specific queries please contact admin@lang.ox.ac.uk.

Russian for Undergraduate Historians is offered for Second Year students intending to take the Russian-language Special Subject paper in their third year. Interested students should contact Dr Alexander Morrison for details (alexander.morrison@new.ox.ac.uk).

Faculty and Library Inductions

Faculty Inductions

Welcome Lecture: The Study of History at Oxford	Prof. L. Roper	M. 14 Oct 09:00	North School, Examination Schools

Library Inductions

New users should read the following page for information about using the Bodleian Libraries:

https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ask/getting-started/under-post-graduates

For an online guide with key information about the History Faculty, see this link:

https://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history/getstarted

Joint Schools Lecture Lists

Ancient and Modern History	The Classics lecture list can be found here. *There are no lectures specific to AMH Prelims students this term.
History and Economics	The Economics lecture list can be found here. *There are no lectures specific to HECO Prelims students this term (but NB the classes for Quantification in History, see below)
History and English	The English lecture list can be found here.
History and Modern Languages	The Modern Languages lecture list can be found here.
History and Politics	The Politics lecture list can be found here.

Study Skills

Study Skills for First Year Historians^O	Prof. L. Wooding and Dr. I. Archer	M. 11:00-12:00	Examination Schools
The Basics	Prof. L. Wooding and Dr. I. Archer	14 Oct	South School
Writing Essays	Prof. L. Wooding and Dr. I. Archer	21 Oct	South School
Finding Your Voice as a Historian	Prof. L. Wooding and Dr. I. Archer	28 Oct	South School

History of the British Isles

The core lecture programmes listed below provide introductory coverage for each of the six periods of British History in the Preliminary Examination. If there are any additional lectures relevant to British History courses, these are listed below the main lecture circus for the relevant paper.

Candidates for the Preliminary Examination may also wish to attend relevant lectures in the History of the British Isles listed below under Final Honour School.

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BIP 1: The British Isles, 300-1100

The British Isles, 300-1100^O	Dr. H. Gittos and others	M. W. 12:00	Examination Schools
Introduction: Britain and Ireland c. 350	Dr. C. O’Brien	14 Oct	Room 9
After Rome 400-500	Dr. C. O’Brien	16 Oct	Room 9
Connections 450-650	Dr. H. Gittos	21 Oct	Room 9
People and Kings 500-650	Dr. H. Gittos	23 Oct	Room 9
Conversion 400-750	Dr. C. O’Brien	28 Oct	Room 9
Transformations 650-800: Economic, Political, Ideological	Dr. C. O’Brien	30 Oct	Room 9
Christianization 400-750	Prof. S. Foot	4 Nov	Room 9
Four Nations? Transformations 800-1100	Dr. C. O’Brien	6 Nov	Room 9
The Viking Age I: 790-1100	Prof. S. Foot	11 Nov	Room 9
Writing	Dr. H. Gittos	13 Nov	Room 9
The Viking Age II: 790-1100	Prof. S. Foot	18 Nov	Room 9
Kingship and Government in the Post-Viking World	Mr. T. Alphey	20 Nov	Room 9
Law and Order	Mr. T. Alphey	25 Nov	Room 9
Belief, 800-1100	Dr. H. Gittos	27 Nov	Room 9
Conquest: causes	Mr. T. McAuliffe	2 Dec	Room 9
Conquest: effects	Mr. T. McAuliffe	4 Dec	Room 9

Lecture recordings: BIP > BIP 1: The British Isles, 300-1100

See Canvas course page for handouts.

BIP 2: The British Isles, 1000-1330

The British Isles, 1000-1330^O	Prof G. Garnett and others	M. W. 12:00	Examination Schools
Late Anglo-Saxon Government	Prof. G. Garnett	14 Oct	Room 7
Romanesque into Gothic, Canterbury-style	Dr. E. Guerry	16 Oct	Room 7
The Norman Conquest	Prof. G. Garnett	21 Oct	Room 7
Ireland	Prof. C. O'Brien	23 Oct	Room 7
Norman Rule and Crisis, 1087-1154	Prof. G. Garnett	28 Oct	Room 7
The Church	Dr. H. Flatley	30 Oct	Room 7
Angevin Rule and Crisis, 1154-1216	Prof. G. Garnett	4 Nov	Room 7
Wales	Dr. H. Brodie	--	Recording to be released on Panopto
Learning and Education	Dr. M. Kempshall	11 Nov	Room 7
Monasticism	Dr. H. Flatley	13 Nov	Room 7
Plantagenets and Piety	Dr. E. Guerry	18 Nov	Room 7
Liturgy and Language, 1000-1330	Dr. H. Gittos	20 Nov	Room 7
Edward II	Prof. J. Watts	25 Nov	Room 7
Women	Dr. H. Skoda	27 Nov	Room 7
Historical Writing	Prof. G. Garnett	2 Dec	Room 7
Scotland	Dr. H. Flatley	4 Dec	Room 7

Lecture recordings: BIP > BIP 2: The British Isles, 1000-1330

See Canvas course page for handouts.

BIP 3: The British Isles, 1330-1550

The British Isles, 1330-1550^O	Prof. H. Skoda and others	M. W. 12:00	Examination Schools
Introduction to late medieval society	Prof. J. Watts	14 Oct	Room 6
The black death and its consequences	Prof. H. Skoda	16 Oct	Room 6
English politics in the age of the hundred years war	Prof. J. Watts	21 Oct	Room 6
Gender and sexuality	Prof. H. Skoda	23 Oct	Room 6
Politics and government in England, c.1460-1550	Prof. S. Gunn	28 Oct	Room 6
Perspectives on the Revolt of Owain Glyndŵr	Dr. H. Brodie	30 Oct	Recording to be released on Panopto
Education	Prof. H. Skoda	4 Nov	Room 6
Heresy and orthodoxy	Dr H. Flatley	6 Nov	Room 6
Ireland: Identity, Society and Politics	Prof. J. Watts	11 Nov	Room 6
Law and Violence	Prof. H. Skoda	13 Nov	Room 6
Politics and government in late medieval Scotland	Prof. S. Gunn	18 Nov	Room 6
Revolts and popular politics	Dr H. Flatley	20 Nov	Room 6
Mobility	Prof. H. Skoda	25 Nov	Room 6
Art, architecture and performance	Prof. L. Wooding	27 Nov	Room 6
The first age of mass communication	Prof. J. Watts	2 Dec	Room 6
The Reformation	Prof. L. Wooding	4 Dec	Room 6

Lecture recordings: BIP > BIP 3: The British Isles, 1330-1550

See Canvas course page for handouts.

BIP 4: The British Isles, 1500-1700

The British Isles, 1500-1700^O	Prof. L. Wooding and others	M. W. 12:00	Examination Schools
Tudor England	Prof. L. Wooding	14 Oct	Room 11
Demography	Dr. J. Healey	16 Oct	Room 11
Early Modern Wales	Dr A. Gajda and Dr G. Tapsell	21 Oct	Room 11
Sixteenth-century Scotland and Ireland	Prof. S. Gunn	23 Oct	Room 11
Popular Politics	Dr. E. Paterson	28 Oct	Room 11
Reformation	Prof. L. Wooding	30 Oct	Room 11
Women, Men and Gender	Dr. A. Gajda	4 Nov	Room 11
Stuart Multiple Monarchy	Dr G. Tapsell	6 Nov	Room 11
War and State Formation	Prof. S. Gunn	11 Nov	Room 11
Post-Reformation Religion	Dr. G. Tapsell	13 Nov	Room 11
Print Culture	Dr. S. Aldred	18 Nov	Room 11
Divine Right and Tyranny	Prof. J. Parkin	20 Nov	Room 11
Poverty and Government	Dr. J. Healey	25 Nov	Room 11
Global Encounters: Peoples, Goods, Ideas	Dr. I. Archer	27 Nov	Room 11
Cultures of Knowledge	Prof. J. Parkin	2 Dec	Room 11
Revolutionary Britain	Dr. G. Tapsell	4 Dec	Room 11

Lecture recordings: BIP > BIP 4: The British Isles, 1500-1700

See Canvas course page for handouts.

BIP 5: The British Isles, 1688-1848

The British Isles, 1688-1848^O	Dr H. Smith and others	M. W. 12:00	Examination Schools
The Revolutions of 1688-89	Dr H. Smith	14 Oct	East School
Monarchy in Hanoverian Britain	Dr H. Smith	16 Oct	East School
Gender and Sexuality	Dr L. Jenkins	21 Oct	East School
Ireland under the Penal Laws	Prof. I. McBride	23 Oct	East School
War and the Fiscal-Military State	Prof. E. Charters	28 Oct	East School
Scotland: from Disloyal Nation to Loyal Province	Prof. B. Harris	30 Oct	East School
The Impact of Empire	Dr P. Gauci	4 Nov	East School
British Politics in the Age of the American Revolution	Dr P. Gauci	6 Nov	East School
British Politics, Revolution and War, c.1789-1815	Prof B. Harris	11 Nov	East School
Pitt’s Heirs and their Opponents	Dr S. Skinner	13 Nov	East School
Slavery and Abolition	Prof. I. McBride	18 Nov	East School
Towns, Cities and Urban Cultures	Dr P. Gauci	20 Nov	East School
Religion, Politics and Society	Prof B. Young	25 Nov	East School
Intellectual Life: A British Enlightenment?	Prof B. Young	27 Nov	East School
Crime and the Law	Prof. I. McBride	2 Dec	East School
The 1830s: the End of an Old Regime	Dr S. Skinner	4 Dec	East School

Lecture recordings: BIP > BIP 5: The British Isles, 1688-1848

See Canvas course page for handouts.

BIP 6: The British Isles, 1830-1951

The British Isles, 1830-1951^O	Dr. C. de Bellaigue and others	M. W. 12:00	Examination Schools
Culture and National Identity	Prof. W. Whyte	14 Oct	Room 14
Union and Constitution	Dr J. Bennett	16 Oct	Room 1
Economy	Dr A. Davies	21 Oct	Room 14
Education	Dr H. Sunderland	23 Oct	Room 1
Politics before Democracy (to 1885)	Dr A. Middleton	28 Oct	Room 14
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality	Dr L. Jenkins	30 Oct	Room 1
Class and Popular Culture	Prof. S. Todd	4 Nov	Cancelled
Religion, Belief & Unbelief	Dr M. Grimley & Dr S. Skinner	6 Nov	Room 1
Land	Dr M. Mulholland	11 Nov	Room 14
Politics 1885-1918	Prof S. Paseta	13 Nov	Room 1
Empire	Dr F. Zaman	18 Nov	Room 14
Race, Immigration & Ethnicity	Dr C. Lewis	20 Nov	Room 1
War	Dr A. Gregory	25 Nov	Room 14
Politics 1918-1951	Prof. B. Jackson	27 Nov	Room 1
Poverty and the State	Prof. B. Jackson	2 Dec	Room 14
Family Life	Dr S. Pooley	4 Dec	Room 1

Lecture recordings: BIP > BIP 6: The British Isles, 1830-1951

See Canvas course page for handouts.

European and World History

Optional Subjects

Paper IV (Historical Methods)

Approaches to History

Note: The first seven lectures in the series are introductory of each approach. This lecture series will continue in Weeks 1 and 2 of Hilary Term 2024.

Approaches to HistoryO	Dr. C. de Bellaigue and others	Tu. Th. 12:00-13:00	Examination Schools
An introduction to approaches to history: the case of anthropology	Prof. W. Whyte	15 Oct	South School
Art: an introduction	Prof. H. Hotson	17 Oct	South School
Archaeology: an introduction	Prof H. Hamerow	22 Oct	South School
Environmental History & inventing nature	Dr A Power & Dr V Bivar	24 Oct	South School
History of Women, Gender and Sexuality: an introduction	Prof S Knott	29 Oct	South School
Race as a category of analysis	Prof. G. Marcocci	31 Oct	South School
Sociology: an introduction	Dr A Gregory	5 Nov	South School
Economics: institutions	Dr B A’Hearn	7 Nov	South School
Economics: Money	Dr B A’Hearn	12 Nov	South School
Economics: Slavery	Dr B A’Hearn	14 Nov	South School
Economics: Nature	Dr B A’Hearn	19 Nov	South School
Art: The Power of images & ways of seeing	Prof N Thebaut	21 Nov	South School
Art: Creation and consumption	Prof H Hotson	28 Nov (Thur)	South School
Art: Politics	Dr P Leung	29 Nov (Fri)	South School
Sociology – Power and Authority	Dr A Gregory	3 Dec	South School
Sociology – the historical psychology of social class	Prof. M Mulholland	5 Dec	Room 7

Lecture recordings: Paper IV > Approaches

See Canvas course page for handouts.

Additional lectures relevant to this course:

Theme: Masculinity and its Discontents, 200-2000 (Approaches: Gender) ^O

Historiography: Tacitus to Weber

Historiography: Tacitus to Weber^O	Dr. A. Gajda	F. 12:00-13:00	Examination Schools
Tacitus	Prof. K. Clarke	18 Oct	Room 11
Augustine	Dr. M. Kempshall	25 Oct	Room 11
Machiavelli	Dr. M. Kempshall	01 Nov	Room 11
Gibbon	Prof. B. Young	08 Nov	Room 11
Macaulay	Prof. B. Young	15 Nov	Room 11
Ranke	Dr. J. Bennett	22 Nov	Room 11
Weber	Dr. J. Bennett	29 Nov	Room 11

Lecture recordings: Paper IV > Historiography

See Canvas course page for handouts.

Foreign Texts

Vicens Vives ^O	Prof. G. Marcocci	Fr. 10:00-11:00	Exeter College
Vicens Vives and the Writing of Spanish History under Franco	Dr. M. Kerry	18 Oct	Rector's Drawing Room
Introduction to the Aproximación a la Historia de España	Dr. M. Kerry	25 Oct	Rector's Drawing Room
Vicens Vives and European Historiography	Prof. G. Marcocci	15 Nov	Rector's Drawing Room
Vicens Vives's Legacy to Spanish Historiography	Prof. G. Marcocci	22 Nov	Rector's Drawing Room

See Canvas course page for handouts.

Meinecke and Kehr ^O	Dr. J. Bennett	W. 15:15-16:45	Lady Margaret Hall
Meinecke I	Dr. J. Bennett	16 Oct	Lodge Seminar Room
Meinecke II	Dr. J. Bennett	30 Oct	Lodge Seminar Room
Kehr I	Dr. J. Bennett	13 Nov	Lodge Seminar Room
Kehr II	Dr. J. Bennett	27 Nov	Lodge Seminar Room

See Canvas course page for handouts.

Einhard and Asser (Class) ^x	Dr. M. Kempshall & Dr. J. Nightingale	Tu. 12:00	Wadham College

Quantification in History

Quantification in History^X	Dr. R. Simson	Tu. 10:45-12:45	Faculty of History
Where Does Data Come From?	Dr. R. Simson	15 Oct	Gerry Martin Room
Change Over Time: Indices, Real v. Nominal Values, Relative Values	Dr. R. Simson	22 Oct	Gerry Martin Room
Distributions: Normal Distribution, Populations, Samples, and Hypotheses	Dr. R. Simson	29 Oct	Gerry Martin Room
Central Tendency: t-tests and Mann-Whitney U	Dr. R. Simson	5 Nov	Gerry Martin Room
Distributions: Chi-Square	Dr. R. Simson	12 Nov	Gerry Martin Room
Correlation: Spearman's rho and Pearson's r	Dr. R. Simson	19 Nov	Gerry Martin Room
Simple Linear Regression	Dr. R. Simson	26 Nov	Gerry Martin Room
Multiple Regression Analysis	Dr. R. Simson	3 Dec	Gerry Martin Room

See Canvas course page for handouts.

Study Skills

History of the British Isles

The History of the British Isles courses in the Preliminary Examination and Final Honour School share a single lecture series, covering topics and themes relevant to both examinations. Students should be aware that the precise topics covered in this lecture series may vary from year to year. If there are any additional lectures relevant to British History courses, these are listed below the main lecture circus for the relevant paper.

Please note: the lecture series for ‘6 Power, Politics and the People, 1815-1924’ and ‘7 Changing Identities, 1900-present’ in the Final Honour School will be held in Trinity Term.

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