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Department of the University of Oxford, EnglandThe Faculty of History at the University of Oxford organises that institution's teaching and research in medieval and modern history. Medieval and modern history has been taught at Oxford for longer than at virtually any other university, and the first Regius Professor of Modern History was appointed in 1724. The Faculty is part of the Humanities Division, and has been based at the former City of Oxford High School for Boys on George Street, Oxford since the summer of 2007, while the department's library relocated from the former Indian Institute on Catte Street to the Bodleian Library's Radcliffe Camera in August 2012.
Research groups
- Britain and Europe Group
- Centre for Early Modern British and Irish History
- Centre for the History of Childhood
- Late Antique & Byzantine Studies
- Modern European History Research Centre
- OxCRUSH: Oxford Centre for Research in United States History
- Oxford Centre for Medieval History
- Research Cluster in History of Science, Medicine and Technology
- Wellcome Unit for History of Medicine, Oxford
Notable academics
See also: Category:Historians of the University of Oxford- Martin Biddle
- John Blair
- Judith M. Brown
- Averil Cameron
- Richard Carwardine
- Thomas Charles-Edwards
- Barry Cunliffe
- Norman Davies
- Robert John Weston Evans
- R. F. Foster
- Timothy Garton Ash
- Robert Gildea
- Pekka Hämäläinen
- Brian Harrison
- Peter Harrison
- Felicity Heal
- Daniel Walker Howe
- Martin Kemp
- Yasmin Khan
- Alan Knight
- Paul Langford
- Sir Colin Lucas
- Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Margaret MacMillan
- Henry Mayr-Harting
- Avner Offer
- Francis Robinson
- Lyndal Roper
- George Rousseau
- Robert Service
- Richard Sharpe
- Paul Slack
- Sir Hew Strachan
- Sir Keith Thomas
- Christopher Wickham
- Blair Worden
Notable alumni
(See also the 'Historians' section of the page List of University of Oxford people in academic disciplines.)
- Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Matthew d'Ancona, former Editor of the Spectator
- Norman Davies
- Niall Ferguson
- John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia
- Graham Greene
- Dominic Grieve, Attorney General of the United Kingdom
- Harald V of Norway, King of Norway
- T. E. Lawrence
- George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Michael Palin
- Lester B. Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada
- John Redwood, former Secretary of State for Wales
- Evelyn Waugh
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Eric Williams, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
- Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
References
- "Home | Faculty of History". History.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- "Bodleian History Faculty Library | Home". Bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
- "University of Oxford Faculty of History > Research > Research Projects: A-Z". Archived from the original on 23 June 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2013.