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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Undergraduate Study

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Understanding Insurgencies

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Virtual issue of 'Past & Present' on 'Capitalism and Global History' out now

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Visiting Scholars

'What have we forgotten about globalization?'

What have we forgotten about globalization?

14 November 2019
The Inaugural Lecture of the Professor of Economic and Social History
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Where is Asia in the History of Early Modern Capitalism?

20 November 2023
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Workshop - "Domicide": State violence and the destruction of home in the Middle East and China

26 April 2024
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Workshop - Periodising Global History: What is Early Modernity? What is Modernity?

14 May 2024
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Workshop presentation by Associate Professor Faridah Zaman: 'Pan-Islamism in Postwar Europe'

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WORKSHOP: Knowledge production in colonial and post-colonial history (Comparing the Copperbelt project)

02 November 2018
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WORKSHOP: (TGHS) Global History Graduate Students Workshop 1

28 January 2020
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WORKSHOP: Africa and Decolonisation

16 February 2018
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WORKSHOP: Broadcasting decolonisation: the radio boom and the end of Empire

15 February 2019
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WORKSHOP: Comparaison de la 'copperbelt': société, écologie et culture dans les communautés minières d'Afrique centrale

23 July 2019 to 24 July 2019
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WORKSHOP: Comparing the Copperbelt: Political culture and knowledge production in Central Africa

23 July 2018 to 24 July 2018
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Workshop: Decolonising colonial ports and global history: rethinking archives of power

09 November 2019
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WORKSHOP: Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: Japanese Studies and the Environmental Humanities

27 October 2017 to 28 October 2017
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Workshop: Extractive Industries and the Environment: Production, Pollution and Protest from a Global and Historical Perspective

06 December 2019
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WORKSHOP: Gendering Internationalism - Gendering Jewish Internationalism

12 March 2018 to 13 March 2018
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WORKSHOP: Girls, travel and global issues: multi-disciplinary perspectives

14 March 2018
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WORKSHOP: Global Nodes, Networks, Orders: Global Orders: Three Global History Workshops on Transformative Connectivity

20 April 2017 to 22 April 2017
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WORKSHOP: Graduate Approaches to Global History

06 June 2019
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WORKSHOP: Jeremy Adelman (Princeton): Capitalism in Global History, editors' introduction

10 November 2020
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WORKSHOP: Joanna Innes (Oxford): Political Economy and Culture in Global History, series of blog posts

08 December 2020
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WORKSHOP: Maxine Berg (Warwick): Capitalism in Global History, articles from the virtual issue and elsewhere

26 November 2020
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WORKSHOP: Pacific Worlds in Global History: Approaches, Challenges & Disciplinary Futures (TGHS)

30 November 2018
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WORKSHOP: Transoceanic Constitutions: The Corporation as Protagonist in Global History

26 April 2017
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WORKSHOP: War, Health and the Environment in the Modern Age

06 June 2017
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Worldmaking in the Hijaz: Muslims between Indian and Soviet Visions of Managing Difference, 1919-1926

23 May 2023
5th Anthony Gwilliam Lecture

Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics’

16 October
5th Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture
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Oxford Centre for Global History Website