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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Graduate Student Research Presentations, Global & Imperial History, M.St.

02 March 2018
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GRADUATE WELCOME EVENT: Roundtable: How are graduate students practising global history at Oxford?

09 October 2018
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GRADUATE WORKSHOP: Professor Jean Allman, 'Gender and Post-Colonialism'

01 November 2017
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Gregory Hynes, DPhil in History

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Hilary Term Lecture 2025 - 'Historical Justice under State Socialism'

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History Faculty James Ford Lectures

24 January 2020 to 28 February 2020
History in a 'Post-Truth' Age 2025

History in a 'Post-Truth' Age

09 May 2025
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How Epidemics End: A multidisciplinary project

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How epidemics ends. New ways of learning from the past.  

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Humanities teaching award for innovative Oxford and Empire project

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IN CONVERSATION: Pankaj Mishra, 'Age of Anger: A Conversation on Nihilism in the 21st Century'

03 May 2017
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Interdisciplinary roundtable: Global climate change and history

24 May 2018
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International Conference: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America

21 November 2024 to 22 November 2024
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Itinerant Belonging: Gujarat's Merchant Havelis and Occluded Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism

20 May 2024
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Iva Peša, 'Between waste and profit: Environmental values on the Central African Copperbelt'

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Iva Peša, 'Mining, Waste and Environmental Thought on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950-2000'

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Iva Peša, Crops and Copper: Agriculture and Urbanism on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950-2000

The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

James Belich - The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe (Princeton University Press, 2022)

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James Belich, John Darwin, Margret Frenz, Chris Wickham (eds.), The Prospect of Global History (OUP, 2016)

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John Darwin, Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain (Penguin, 2013)

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John-Paul Ghobrial, Associate Professor and Lucas Fellow in Early Modern History

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John-Paul Ghobrial, Global History and Microhistory: a Supplement Volume of Past and Present

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JOINT SEMINAR: (OCGH & Modern European History Seminar) Professor Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin), Professor Rana Mitter (Oxford), 'Global-European Civil Wars'

23 November 2021
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Joseph Guido

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Kathryn Gleadle & Zoë Thomas, 'Global feminisms, c.1870-1930: vocabularies and concepts-a comparative approach' (Women's History Review, 2018)

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Kevin Fogg publishes monograph on Islam in Indonesia's revolution

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Kevin Fogg, Indonesia's Islamic Revolution

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Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey. G. Williamson (eds.), The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871 (OUP, 2017)

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KEYNOTE LECTURE: Linda Goldberg, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 'The Risk Sensitivity of Global Liquidity Flows: Heterogeneity, Recent Evolution and Drivers'

28 March 2025
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Oxford Centre for Global History Website