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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Early Modern History in the Making: The J H Elliott History Forum Inaugural Symposium

05 June 2025 to 06 June 2025
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Edward Gibbon, Roman Empire, and Imagining De-Colonization

05 June
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Eiko Honda, DPhil in History

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Elleke Boehmer, Rouven Kunstmann, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Asha Rogers (eds.), The Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices (Palgrave, 2017)

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Empires and colonialism

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Enforcing Abolition and the Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century

03 February 2023
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Entangled Histories: Solidarity, Language, and Imperial Knowledge in Global Perspective

08 May
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Environmental History

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Equality through the Market Milton Friedman and the Origins of Universal Basic Income, Dr Daniel Zamora

01 November 2019
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European and World History

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Evolving Traditions: Networks of Empire and the Changing Economies of Islamic Intellectual Production in East Africa (c. 1800-1945)

06 June 2023
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Faculty of History opens in the new Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

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Faisal Devji - Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam (Yale University Press, 2025)

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Faisal Devji appointed as Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History

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Feeding the Peace: the global impact of the 1918 armistice and its legacy

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First international Colonial Ports and Global History (CPAGH) conference

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Fishing and the Global History of Conservation: Preliminary Comparisons of Past and Present

10 December 2019
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Fishing for the Past: Histories of Maritime Archaeology and Anthropology in the Indian Ocean

12 February 2024
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From Empires of Coal and Steam to the Petro-States and Saltwater Kingdoms: The Indian Ocean Roots of Fossil-Fueled Water in the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf, 1850-2100

30 October 2023
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GHoC project hosts 'Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism' conference

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GIH DPhil Presentations

03 March 2023
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GIH Friday Research Seminar - 'Beyond Boundaries: Developing Intellectual History'

24 January 2025
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GIH Friday Research Seminar - 'Circulation: Object memory, Global Exchange and the First English Embassy to India'

07 February 2025
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GIH Friday Research Seminar - 'Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study'

31 January 2025
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GIH Friday Research Seminar - 'Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case'

28 February 2025
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GIH Friday Research Seminar - 'The Global Nature of Mughal Early Modernity'

21 February 2025
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GIH Friday Research Seminar - 'The traitor and agent Tshombe is in the hands of the Algerian revolution': 1960s plane hijackings between global anti-imperialism and international law'

24 October 2025
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Oxford Centre for Global History Website