Lecture List for Michaelmas Term 2025

This page was last updated on 01/10/2025

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 12 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.

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 M. Conway

M. 13 Oct

09:00

Exam Schools,

North School

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 C. Holmes & Prof G. Marcocci	M. 11:00	Exam Schools
The Basics	Prof C. Holmes & Prof G. Marcocci	13 Oct	South School
Tutorial Practicalities: Reading and Essay Writing	Prof C. Holmes & Prof G. Marcocci	20 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	Prof S. Baxter and others	M. W. 12:00	Exam Schools,
Introduction: Britain and Ireland c. 350	Dr C. O’Brien	13 Oct	Room 9
After Rome 400-500	Dr C. O’Brien	15 Oct	Room 9
Connections 450-650	Dr H. Gittos	20 Oct	Room 9
People and Kings 500-650	Dr H. Gittos	22 Oct	Room 9
Conversion 400-750	Dr C. O’Brien	27 Oct	Room 9
Transformations 650-800: Economic, Political, Ideological	Dr C. O’Brien	29 Oct	Room 9
Christianization 400-750	Prof S. Foot	3 Nov	Room 9
Four Nations? Transformations 800-1100	Dr C. O’Brien	5 Nov	Room 9
The Viking Age I: 790-1100	Prof S. Foot	10 Nov	Room 9
Writing	Dr H. Gittos	12 Nov	Room 9
The Viking Age II: 790-1100	Prof S. Foot	17 Nov	Room 9
Belief, 800-1100	Dr H. Gittos	19 Nov	Room 9
Kingship and government in the post Viking world	Prof S. Baxter	24 Nov	Room 9
Law and order	Prof S. Baxter	26 Nov	Room 9
Conquest: causes	Prof S. Baxter	1 Dec	Room 9
Conquest: effects	Prof S. Baxter	3 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	Exam School
Late Anglo-Saxon Government	Prof G. Garnett	13 Oct	Room 7
Romanesque into Gothic, Canterbury-style	Dr E. Guerry	15 Oct	Room 7
The Norman Conquest	Prof G. Garnett	20 Oct	Room 7
Ireland	Dr C. O'Brien	22 Oct	Room 7
The Church and Politics	Dr B. Thompson	27 Oct	Room 7
Norman Rule and Crisis 1087-1154	Prof G. Garnett	29 Oct	Room 7
Religious Orders and Lay Piety	Dr B. Thompson	3 Nov	Room 7
Domesday Book	Prof S. Baxter	5 Nov	Room 7
Learning and Education	Dr M. Kempshall	10 Nov	Room 7
Angevin Rule and Crisis	Prof G. Garnett	12 Nov	Room 7
Jews	Prof S. Baxter	17 Nov	Room 7
Women	Dr H. Skoda	19 Nov	Room 7
Edward II	Prof J. Watts	24 Nov	Room 7
Liturgy and Language, 1000-1330	Dr H. Gittos	26 Nov	Room 7
Scotland	Dr B. Thompson	1 Dec	Room 7
Historical Writing	Prof G. Garnett	3 Dec	Room 7
Bonus lecture: Wales	Dr H. Brodie	This lecture will be available to view via Panopto on Canvas

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	Exam Schools
Introduction to late medieval society	Prof. J. Watts	13 Oct	Room 6
The black death and its consequences	Prof. H. Skoda	15 Oct	Room 11
English politics in the age of the hundred years war	Prof. J. Watts	20 Oct	Room 11
Gender and sexuality	Prof. H. Skoda	22 Oct	Room 11
Politics and government in England, c.1460-1550	Prof. S. Gunn	27 Oct	Room 11
The fall and rise of English Ireland?	Prof. J. Watts	29 Oct	Room 11
Politics and government in late medieval Scotland	Prof. S. Gunn	3 Nov	Room 11
Heresy and orthodoxy	Prof T. Johnson	5 Nov	Room 11
Mobility	Prof. H. Skoda	10 Nov	Room 11
Law and Violence	Prof. H. Skoda	12 Nov	Room 11
Wales: nationalism and revolt	Prof. B. Thompson	17 Nov	Room 11
Revolts and popular politics	Prof T. Johnson	19 Nov	Room 11
Art, architecture and performance	Prof. B. Thompson	24 Nov	Room 11
Education	Hannah Skoda	26 Nov	Room 11
The first age of mass communication	Prof. J. Watts	1 Dec	Room 11
The Reformation	Prof. S. Gunn	3 Dec	Room 11

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	Exam Schools
Tudor England	Prof. S. Gunn	13 Oct	Room 6
People and Society	Dr J. Healey	15 Oct	Room 6
Sixteenth-Century Scotland and Ireland	Prof. S. Gunn	20 Oct	Room 6
Early Modern Wales	Dr A. Gajda	22 Oct	Room 6
Reformation	Prof. S. Mortimer	27 Oct	Room 6
Women, Men and Gender	Dr A. Gajda	29 Oct	Room 6
Stuart Multiple Monarchy	Dr S. Nicholls	3 Nov	Room 6
Print Culture	Dr S. Aldred	5 Nov	Room 6
Revolutionary Britain	Dr S. Nicholls	10 Nov	Room 6
Cultures of Knowledge	Prof J. Parkin	12 Nov	Room 6
Popular Politics	Dr E. Paterson	17 Nov	Room 6
Poverty and Government	Dr J. Healey	19 Nov	Room 6
Divine Right and Tyranny	Prof. S. Mortimer	24 Nov	Room 6
Resistance, Revolution and Republic	Prof J. Parkin	26 Nov	Room 6
Race and Ethnicities: experiences and mentalities	Dr E. Paterson	1 Dec	Room 6
Global Encounters: peoples, goods, ideas	Dr I. Archer	3 Dec	Room 6

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	Exam Schools
The Revolutions of 1688-89	Dr H. Smith	13 Oct	North School
Gender and Sexuality	Dr L. Jenkins	15 Oct	North School
Monarchy in Hanoverian Britain	Dr H. Smith	20 Oct	North School
Scotland: from Disloyal Nation to Loyal Province	Prof. B. Harris	22 Oct	North School
War and the Fiscal-Military State	Prof. E. Charters	27 Oct	North School
Ireland under the Penal Laws	Prof. I. McBride	29 Oct	North School
Towns, Cities and Urban Cultures	Dr P. Gauci	3 Nov	North School
British Politics in the Age of the American Revolution	Dr P. Gauci	5 Nov	North School
British Politics, Revolution and War, c.1789-1815	Prof B. Harris	10 Nov	North School
Pitt’s Heirs and their Opponents	Dr S. Skinner	12 Nov	North School
Slavery and Abolition	Mr C. Bowman	17 Nov	North School
The Impact of Empire	Dr P. Gauci	19 Nov	North School
Religion, Politics and Society	Prof B. Young	24 Nov	North School
Intellectual Life: A British Enlightenment?	Prof B. Young	26 Nov	North School
The Transformation of Rural Society	Prof. B. Harris	1 Dec	North School
The 1830s: the End of an Old Regime	Dr S. Skinner	3 Dec	North 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	Exam Schools
Culture and National Identity	Prof. W. Whyte	13 Oct	Room 1
Union and Constitution	Dr J. Bennett	15 Oct	Room 1
Poverty and the State	Prof. B. Jackson	20 Oct	Room 1
Education	Dr C. de Bellaigue	22 Oct	Room 1
Economy	Dr T. Sasson	27 Oct	Room 1
Politics before Democracy (to 1885)	Dr A. Middleton	29 Oct	Room 1
Class and Popular Culture	Dr C. de Bellaigue	3 Nov	Room 1
Religion, Belief & Unbelief	Dr M. Grimley & Dr S. Skinner	5 Nov	Room 1
Land	Prof. M. Mulholland	10 Nov	Room 1
Politics 1885-1918	Prof. S.Paseta	12 Nov	Room 1
War	Dr C. Pieters	17 Nov	Room 1
Race, Immigration & Ethnicity	O. Peters	19 Nov	Room 1
Empire	Prof. F. Zaman	24 Nov	Room 1
Politics 1918-1951	Prof. B. Jackson	26 Nov	Room 1
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality	Dr L. Jenkins	1 Dec	Room 1
Family Life	Dr S. Pooley	3 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	Exam Schools
An introduction to approaches to history: the case of anthropology	Prof. W. Whyte	14 Oct	North School
Environmental History & inventing nature	Dr A. Power & Dr V. Bivar	16 Oct	North School
Archaeology: an introduction	Dr T. Alphey	21 Oct	North School
Art: an introduction	Prof. H. Hotson	23 Oct	North School
History of Women, Gender and Sexuality: an introduction	Prof. S. Knott	28 Oct	North School
Sociology: an introduction	Prof. F. de Vivo	30 Oct	North School
Histories of Race: Race as a category of analysis	Prof. G. Marcocci	4 Nov	North School
Economics: institutions	Dr B. A’Hearn	6 Nov	North School
Environmental History – Questions of Scale	Dr A. Power & Dr V. Bivar	11 Nov	North School
Environmental History - Agency	Dr A. Power & Dr V. Bivar	13 Nov	North School
Environmental History – Resources and Power	Dr A. Power & Dr V. Bivar	18 Nov	North School
Women, Gender, Sexuality: Queer history & the history of sexuality	Prof. M.Cook	20 Nov	North School
Women, Gender, Sexuality: imperial and postcolonial entanglements	Dr N. Vince	25 Nov	North School
Women, Gender, Sexuality: religion	Dr G. Heaton	27 Nov	North School
Sociology – Power and Authority	Prof. A. Morrison	2 Dec	North School
Sociology – the historical psychology of social class	Prof. M. Mulholland	4 Dec	North School

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. 11:00-12:00	Schwarzman Centre
Tacitus	Prof R. Ash	17 Oct	10.300 Lecture Theatre L1
Augustine	Dr M. Kempshall	24 Oct	10.300 Lecture Theatre L1
Machiavelli	Dr M. Kempshall	31 Oct	10.300 Lecture Theatre L1
Macaulay	Prof B. Young	7 Nov	10.300 Lecture Theatre L1
Gibbon	Prof B. Young	14 Nov	10.300 Lecture Theatre L1
Ranke	Dr J. Bennett	21 Nov	10.300 Lecture Theatre L1
Weber	Dr J. Bennett	28 Nov	10.300 Lecture Theatre L1

Lecture recordings: Paper IV > Historiography

See Canvas course page for handouts.

Foreign Texts

The lectures for the Foreign Texts: Tocqueville paper will take place in Hilary Term.

Vicens Vives ^O	Prof. G. Marcocci	Tue 10:00-11:00	Exeter College
Vicens Vives and the Writing of Spanish History under Franco	Prof. G. Marcocci	14 Oct	Rector’s Drawing Room
Introduction to Aproximación a la Historia de España	Prof. G. Marcocci	28 Oct	Rector’s Drawing Room
Vicens Vives and European Historiography	Prof. G. Marcocci	11 Nov	Rector’s Drawing Room
Vicens Vives’s Legacy to Spanish Historiography	Prof. G. Marcocci	25 Nov	Rector’s Drawing Room

See Canvas course page for handouts.

Meinecke and Kehr ^x	Dr J. Bennett	W. 10:00 - 11:00	Lady Margaret Hall
Meinecke I	Dr J. Bennett	15 Oct	Contact Convenor
Meinecke II	Dr J. Bennett	29 Oct	Contact Convenor
Kehr I	Dr J. Bennett	12 Nov	Contact Convenor
Kehr II	Dr J. Bennett	26 Nov	Contact Convenor

See Canvas course page for handouts.

Einhard and Asser (Class) ^x	Dr. M. Kempshall & Dr. J. Nightingale	Tu. 12:00 Weeks 1-8	Wadham College

Quantification in History

Quantification in History^X	Dr. T Husain	Tu. 10:45-13:00	Schwarzman Centre. History Hub
Where does data come from?	Dr. T Husain	14 Oct	20.513, Seminar Room
Change over time: weighted means, indices, real vs nominal values, relative values; Distributions: the normal distribution	Dr. T Husain	21 Oct	20.501, Seminar Room
Populations and samples; The sampling distribution	Dr. T Husain	28 Cot	20.501, Seminar Room
Hypothesis testing, z-tests and t-tests (parametric tests)	Dr. T Husain	4 Nov	20.501, Seminar Room
More tests: Type I and II errors, Mann-Whitney U test (non-parametric test on individual ordinal data, two samples), chi-square (non-parametric test of categorical or classified data, two and more samples)	Dr. T Husain	11 Nov	20.501, Seminar Room
Correlation: Spearman's rho (non-parametric test of ordinal data), Pearson's r (parametric test of interval or scale data)	Dr. T Husain	18 Nov	20.501, Seminar Room
Simple linear regression (interval or scale data): independent and dependent variables	Dr. T Husain	25 Nov	20.501, Seminar Room
Multiple regression analysis continued: interpreting results	Dr. T Husain	2 Dec	20.501, Seminar Room

See Canvas course page for handouts.

Study Skills

Change and Continuity in 2nd Year History (and Beyond)

Prof C. Holmes & Prof G. Marcocci

M. 13 Oct

09:00

Exam Schools,

South School

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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