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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Alexander Morrison, 'The Russian Conquest of Central Asia'

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Amy Tibble

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An Environmental History of the Indian Ocean

15 January 2024
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Andrew Thompson to join Oxford from AHRC as Professor of Global Imperial History

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Annual OCEH Lecture - Morale on the home front, 1914-1945: Its transnational construction and destruction

26 February
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Annual Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025

26 June 2025 to 27 June 2025
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Astor Global History Lunchtime Workshop: The Great Divergence, twenty years on with Professor Kenneth Pomeranz

12 May 2023
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Astor Global History Roundtable: Why is China So Big? with Professor Kenneth Pomeranz

11 May 2023
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Astor Postgraduate Workshop 2025

26 May 2025
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Benjamin Mountford & Stephen Tuffnell (eds.), A Global History of Gold Rushes (UCP, 2018)

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Bodleian Fellows Seminar: Dr Jenna Marshall (Kassel). 'Creolising Fabians at the end of empire: contested visions of postwar development policies in the Caribbean and South East Asia'

26 February 2020
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Book Launch - Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450-1850

07 March 2025
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Book Launch: China's Cold War Science Dipolomacy by Gordon Barrett

02 December 2022
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Book Launch: The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century by Richard Reid

12 June 2025
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Book Publication: Alan Strathern, Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History (CUP, 2019)

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Book publication: Benjamin Mountford & Stephen Tuffnell (eds.), A Global History of Gold Rushes (UCP, 2018)

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Book Talk - Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam

17 November 2025
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Broadcasting and Decolonisation: The Radio Boom and the End of Empire

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CALL FOR PAPERS - Comparing the Copperbelt: Social history and knowledge production in Central Africa, revised date 17-19 June 2021 (Oxford)

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Call for Papers: Identity Abroad conference

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Call for Papers: Slavery, Institutions, and Empire: Moving Beyond Microhistory

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Call for Papers: TGHS Conference: Global Bodies, Global Lives

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CALL FOR PAPERS: TGHS Postgraduate Conference: Encounters and Exchanges in a Global Past

01 May 2022

Can there be a global micro history?

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CANCELLED - LECTURE: Linda Colley - Warfare and the Global Spread of Constitutions: An Argument

20 April 2020
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CANCELLED - SEMINAR: Dr Manuel Borutta (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), 'Capital of a liquid continent: the Port of Marseille, the Mediterranean Sea and the re-globalization of France, 1798-1935'

07 February 2018
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CANCELLED - WORKSHOP: (TGHS) Global History Graduate Students Workshop 2

10 March 2020
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Catherine Holmes & Naomi Standen (eds), Past & Present, Supplement 13: The Global Middle Ages

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Centre hosts 'Sacred Kingship in World History' conference

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CFP: Transnational & Global History Seminar (Hilary Term 2021)

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Oxford Centre for Global History Website