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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GIH Friday Research Seminar - Anti-apartheid in the international imagination: Capitalism, Socialism, Liberalism

31 October 2025
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GIH Friday Research Seminar - Art and Decolonial Love: Visualizing Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement

28 November 2025
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GIH Friday Research Seminar - Daring To Be Free: Enslaved Resistance in the Atlantic World

07 November 2025
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GIH Friday Research Seminar - The Americas in Catholicism's Global Cold War

05 December 2025
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GIH Friday Research Seminar - The Oppressed Assemble: Socialist Anti-Colonialism and the Promise of Post-Imperial Modernity

14 November 2025
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GIH MSt Presentations

10 March 2023
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GIH Postgraduate Student Presentations

13 March 2025 to 14 March 2025
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GIH Research Seminar - Civil Wars and the End of the Cold War: Hypotheses for Global History

21 November 2025
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Giuseppe Marcocci's new book 'The Globe on Paper'

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Giuseppe Marcocci, 'The Globe on Paper'

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Global & Imperial History Research Seminar programme for Hilary Term 2021

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Global (Dis)Order - a new international policy programme

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Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations

06 March 2020
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Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations 1

05 March 2021
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Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations 2

12 March 2021
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Global and Imperial History MSt Research Conference

30 April

Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

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Global and Imperial History Research Seminar Michaelmas term programme

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Global and Imperial History Research Seminar: Hilary term programme

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Global and Imperial History Welcome Drinks and Introduction to 'Oxford and Empire'

08 October 2019
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Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000

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Global History and Microhistory: AHRC Network

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Global History of War lecture 2018

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Global Nodes, Global Orders

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Globalising and Localising the Great War

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Graduate Admissions

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

08 March 2019
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Graduate Student Research Presentations, Global & Imperial History, D.Phil.

02 March 2018

Graduate Student Research Presentations, Global & Imperial History, D.Phil.

06 March 2019
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Oxford Centre for Global History Website