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Department of the University of Oxford, England
The 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,
[1] 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.
[2]
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
[3]
Notable academics
Notable alumni
(See also the 'Historians' section of the page
List of University of Oxford people in academic disciplines.)
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Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom
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Matthew d'Ancona, former Editor of the
Spectator
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Norman Davies
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Niall Ferguson
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John Gorton, Prime Minister of
Australia
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Graham Greene
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Dominic Grieve, Attorney General of the United Kingdom
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Harald V of Norway, King of
Norway
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T. E. Lawrence
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George Osborne,
Chancellor of the Exchequer
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Michael Palin
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Lester B. Pearson, Prime Minister of
Canada
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John Redwood, former
Secretary of State for Wales
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Evelyn Waugh
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Eric Williams, Prime Minister of
Trinidad and Tobago
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Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom
References