Oxford Centre for Global History

The Oxford Centre for Global History was established by the History Faculty in June 2011 to reflect its strong commitment to the field. Global History in Oxford is defined broadly as the global movement of people, goods, and ideas and the consequences that flow from them. Chronologically, it extends across all historical periods from ancient to late modern.

The Centre is particularly keen to encourage cooperation between historians of different periods, as well as places, in the study of themes of global significance. It will support research projects, and host workshops, seminars, and conferences. A key part of the Centre’s role is to facilitate the research of all those in Oxford who are keen to develop a global history dimension in their work. 

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Doctoral Studentship for 4th Year Students at Oxford, Global History of Capitalism Project, 2023-2024

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Rabinder Singh: Human Rights Law in its Historical Context

03 May 2024
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"A Sea of Wealth": Sayyid Sa'id bin Sultan, the Omani Empire, and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace

29 January 2024
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'Comparing the Copperbelt' project holds conference in Democratic Republic of Congo

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'Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism'

01 May 2025
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'Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare'

12 September 2025
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'Towards a Wider Life': Norman Manley in Britain and Jamaica

19 October 2019
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'Whose Oceania?' Panel discussion with Beit Professor James Belich

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*CANCELLED* GIH Friday Research Seminar - 'Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia'

14 February 2025
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Student and ECR workshop

*CANCELLED* Public Engagement Workshop

27 November 2019
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*CANCELLED* SEMINAR: Dr Benedetta Rossi (Birmingham) 'Slavery in the Nigerien Sahel: A Resilient Institution'

29 November 2019
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*CANCELLED* WORKSHOP: Global History Graduate Students Workshop

26 November 2019
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*POSTPONED* WORKSHOP: Managing Airs and Climates: New approaches from History and Beyond

13 March 2020
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*POSTPONED*: Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations

13 March 2020
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2019 Visiting Astor Lectureship on Science and Capitalism

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2023 Astor Lecture in Global History: Why Is China So Big? Rethinking the Realm and its Subjects under the Qing by Professor Kenneth Pomeranz

10 May 2023
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2026 A B Emden Lecture - Depending on Strangers: Love, Fear, and the Making of the Modern World

13 February
Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) government Chiang Kai-shek met with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chairman Mao Zedong in Chongqing for peace negotiations

2026 Dacre Lecture - New China, New Asia 1945-49: The debates that shaped postwar China and their relevance today

15 May
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A Climate of State-Building in Equatorial Eastern Africa c.1840-1875

03 June 2024
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A Passion for China: Adolphe Thiers's Collection

30 April
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A personal account of the Eritrea-Ethiopia war (1998-2000) by Richard Reid

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A Thompson & M Thomas, The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire (Oxford University Press, 2018)

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AGW Lecture Series

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Alan Strathern - Coverting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

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Alan Strathern wins WHA Bentley Prize

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Alan Strathern, Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History (CUP, 2019)

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Alexander Morrison et al (eds.), The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A collapsing empire in the age of war and revolution

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Oxford Centre for Global History Website