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Revision as of 11:30, 25 May 2013 by Ndaisley (talk | contribs) (→Notable Members)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Faculty of History at the University of Oxford organises the teaching and research of history in the University. Medieval and Modern History has been taught at Oxford for longer than at nearly any other University. The first Regius Professor of Modern History was appointed in 1724. It is part of the Humanities Division. The Faculty is in The Old School for Boys on George Street, Oxford and the Library is in the Old Indian Institute on Catte Street.
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 Members, Past and Present
- Martin Biddle
- John Blair
- Laurence Brockliss
- 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
- Brian Harrison
- Peter Harrison
- Robin Kelley
- Martin Kemp
- 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
- 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
- Dominic Grieve, Attorney General of the United Kingdom
- John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia
- Graham Greene
- 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
- http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/
- http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history
- http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/a-z.html
