Specialism > War & Military History

News

Ministry of Information poster from the Second World War designed as part of a publicity campaign to encourage civilians to donate blood to Britain's Army Blood Transfusion Service

Blood Far Forward: A History of Battlefield Blood Transfusion in the Second World War

1 Jun 2021
The Conversation

Conflict between Tigray and Eritrea – the long standing faultline in Ethiopian politics

30 Nov 2020
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DPhil Student Eamonn O'Keeffe talks to Kate Winslet about her family history in upcoming 'Who do You Think You Are?'

Monday 12 August, BBC One at 9pm
6 Aug 2019
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In Our Time: The Mokrani Revolt - Natalya Benkhaled-Vince talks with Melvyn Bragg

13 Mar 2024
From Aotearoa* to Oxford

Patricia Clavin speaks on Armistice 1918 on BBC Radio 4 - Catch-up here

18 May 2018
Peter Wilson giving his Inaugural lecture, 30 January 2017

Peter H. Wilson: Inaugural Lecture

13 Mar 2017
Professor Peter H. Wilson

Peter Wilson wins 2023 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History

6 Sep 2023
Professor Jorge Flores

Professor Jorge Flores - TORCH International Fellow in the Faculty of History (May 2022)

19 Apr 2022
Professor Robert Gerwarth

Professor Robert Gerwarth – Visiting Professorship, 2021-22

31 Mar 2022
The Conversation

The forgotten war heroes who left their own countries to help others – and were never thanked

5 Jan 2021
the panorama museum frankenhausen on site of one of the battlefields

The German Peasants’ War, 1524–1525

30 Mar 2021
Tom Buchanan at the launch event at the Marx Memorial Library, London

Through an artist’s eye: Felicia Browne and the Spanish Civil War

13 Oct 2016

Publications

Gettysburg

Adam Smith - Gettysburg (May 2025)

8 May 2025
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Alexander Morrison - The Russian Conquest of Central Asia A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
The Central Asian Revolt of 1916

Aminat Chokobaeva, Cloé Drieu & Alexander Morrison (ed.) The Central Asian Revolt of 1916. A collapsing empire in the age of war and revolution (Manchester University Press, 2019)

1652: The Cardinal, the Prince, and the Crisis of the 'Fronde'

David Parrott - 1652: The Cardinal, the Prince, and the Crisis of the 'Fronde' (OUP, 2020)
A Global History of Early Modern Violence

E. Charters, M. Houllemare, P. Wilson (eds.) - A Global History of Early Modern Violence (Manchester University Press, 2020)
The Norman Conquest in English History

George Garnett - The Norman Conquest in English History Volume I: A Broken Chain? (OUP, 2021)
Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe After the Second World War

Paul Betts - Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after the Second World War (Profile Books, 2020)
fighters across frontiers

Robert Gildea & Ismee Tames - Fighters across frontiers: Transnational resistance in Europe, 1936–48 (Manchester University Press, 2020)
Russia in Revolution, An Empire in Crisis

Stephen Smith, Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 (OUP, 2017)

Academics

Dr Rowena Archer

Dr Rowena Archer

Fellow at Brasenose, Lecturer in Medieval History at Christ Church
Christ Church
Professor Erica Charters

Professor Erica Charters

Professor of the Global History of Medicine
Faculty of History
Professor Patricia Clavin

Professor Patricia Clavin

Professor of Modern History
Worcester College
Professor Filippo de Vivo

Professor Filippo de Vivo

Professor of Early Modern History
St Edmund Hall
Dr Peter Frankopan

Professor Peter Frankopan

Professor of Global History
Worcester College
Dr Adrian Gregory

Dr Adrian Gregory

Associate Professor of Modern History
Pembroke College
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Dr Emily Davenport Guerry

Tutor in Medieval History
St Peter's College
Professor Steven Gunn

Professor Steven Gunn

Fellow and Tutor in History, Merton College and Professor of Early Modern History
Merton
Professor Mark Harrison

Professor Mark Harrison

Professor of the History of Medicine
Faculty of History | Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Dr Catherine Holmes

Dr Catherine Holmes

Tutor in Medieval History
University College
Professor David Hopkin

Professor David Hopkin

Professor of European Social History
Hertford College
Professor Andrew Hopper

Professor Andrew Hopper

Professor in Local and Social History
Kellogg
Dr Yasmin Khan

Professor Yasmin Khan

Professor of Modern History
Kellogg College
Dr Alexander Morrison

Dr Alexander Morrison

Fellow & Tutor in History
New College
Dr David Parrott

Professor David Parrott

Professor of Early Modern History
New College
Professor Richard Reid

Professor Richard Reid

Professor of African History
St Cross College
Dr Cathleen Sarti

Dr Cathleen Sarti

Departmental Lecturer in the History of War
Balliol
Professor Adam Smith

Professor Adam Smith

Professor
Rothermere American Institute / University College
Dr Hannah Smith

Dr Hannah Smith

Tutorial Fellow and Associate Professor in Early Modern British History
St Hilda's College
Professor Nick Stargardt

Professor Nick Stargardt

Professor of Modern European History
Magdalen College
Professor Andrew Thompson

Professor Andrew Thompson

Professor of Global and Imperial History
Nuffield College
Professor Christopher Tyerman

Professor Christopher J. Tyerman

Professor of the History of the Crusades
Hertford College
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Dr Natalya Benkhaled-Vince

Sanderson Tutorial Fellow and Associate Professor in Modern History
University College
Professor Peter H. Wilson

Professor Peter H Wilson

Chichele Professor of the History of War
All Souls College

Emeriti

Professor Jamie Belich

Professor James Belich

Retired - Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History
Balliol College
Professor Richard Bosworth

Professor Richard James Boon Bosworth

Emeritus Fellow
Jesus College
Professor Richard Carwardine

Professor Richard Carwardine

Emeritus Rhodes Professor of American History
Corpus Christi College
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Professor John Darwin

Professor of Global and Imperial History (retired)
Nuffield College
Professor Robert Gildea

Professor Robert Gildea

Professor of Modern History
Worcester College
Professor Pekka Hämäläinen

Professor Pekka Hämäläinen

Rhodes Professor of American History (Retired)
St Catherine's College
Professor Margaret MacMillan

Professor Margaret MacMillan

Professor of International History and Warden of St Antony's College
St Antony's College
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Professor Blair Worden

Emeritus Fellow
St Edmund Hall

Graduate students

John Allin

DPhil Student
Suchintan Das

Suchintan Das

DPhil Student
Gabrielle Davies

Gabrielle Davies

DPhil Student
Merton College
Enes Kiraz

Enes Şamil Kiraz

DPhil Student
Eamonn Gearon

Eamonn Gearon

DPhil Student
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Natalia Golysheva Deis

DPhil Student
St Antony's College
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Joseph Guido

DPhil Student
St Antony's College
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Thomas Heyen-Dube

DPhil Student
Joshua Hickford

Joshua Hickford

DPhil Student
Simon Lam

Simon Lam

DPhil Student
St Antony's College
Conor Muller

Conor Muller

DPhil student
Balliol College
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Aminath Dhahau Naseem

DPhil Student
Trinity College
Hendrik Willem Nelis

Hendrik Willem Nelis

DPhil Student
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Shian Haw (Raymond) Ngoh

DPhil Student
Keble College
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Grady Owens

DPhil Student
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Marco Pakas

DPhil Student
St Hugh's College
Alexander Sherborne

Alexander Sherborne

DPhil Student
Magdalen College
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Amy Tibble

DPhil Student
Pembroke
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Isabel Van Rhee

DPhil Student
Ziyi Wang

Ziyi Wang

DPhil Student
The Queen's College
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Qianyi Zhang

DPhil Student

Researchers

Jack Avery

Dr Jack Avery

Research Assistant: Newton Papers Project
New College
Dr Roderick Bailey

Dr Roderick Bailey

Research Fellow
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
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Dr Fiona Bowler

Research Associate
Dr Lia Brazil

Dr Lia Brazil

Research Fellow
Nuffield College
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Dr Paula Chan

Research Fellow
All Souls College
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Dr Hohee Cho

Research Associate
Pandemic Sciences Institute
Dr Mary E Cox

Dr Mary Elisabeth Cox

Research Associate
Brasenose College
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Dr Michael Depreter

Research Associate: European Fiscal Military Systems
Harris Manchester College
Dr Natalia Doan

Dr Natalia Doan

Okinaga Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies
Wadham College
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Dr Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada

Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Contemporary History and Public Policy of Mexico
St Antony's College
Dr Gabriela A. Frei

Dr Gabriela A. Frei

British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow and JRF in History
Jesus College
Katharina Friege

Dr Katharina Friege

Julia de Lacy Mann Fellow
Merton College
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Dr Mike Humphreys

Departmental Lecturer in Byzantine History
Dr Meryem Kalayci

Dr Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci

CDF in Women's History
Pembroke College
Dr Jonathan Krause

Dr Jonathan Krause

Lecturer in Modern European History and Research Associate
Hertford College
Dr Matthew Landrus

Dr Matthew Landrus

Supernumerary Fellow
Wolfson College
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Petros Spanou

Postdoctoral Associate Member
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Dr Thomas C Stevens

Stipendiary Lecturer in History
Keble College
Cecilia Tarruell

Dr Cecilia Tarruell

Sir John Elliott Junior Research Fellow in European History 1500–1800
Oriel College
Boyd van Dijk

Dr Boyd van Dijk

Research Fellow
Nuffield College
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Dr Eleanor Leah Williams

Junior Research Fellow in the Northern Ireland Peace Process
Pembroke College
Dr Emily Winkler

Dr Emily A. Winkler

Lecturer in Medieval History
Hertford College & St Edmund Hall

Events

16 May
futer of the world

'The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists and the Struggle for the Cold War Imagination'

Lecture Theatre, History Faculty, George Street
17 Sep
Soldiers in the First World War

1916-22: the making or unmaking of the twentieth century, Alumni Weekend 2016

History Faculty, George Street
16 Oct
St Edmund's Hall

A B Emden Lecture: ‘The birth of the British Nation? ‘Alone’, ‘People’s War’ and the mythical myths of 1940’

Doctorow Hall, St Edmund Hall
28 May
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Algeria, France: How memory works?

European Studies Centre (St Antony's College)
23 May
Professor Sir Adam Roberts KCMG FBA

Changing Character of War Annual Lecture 2018

CAUSES OF WARS, OLD AND NEW
Pichette auditorium, Pembroke College, Oxford, OX1 1DW
17 Apr
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Costs of War – Impact, Meaning and Perceptions, OXPO Conference

All Souls College, Wharton Room
9 May
drawing wars

Drawing Wars: Art and Cultural Memory

Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
30 Sep
enlightenment event

Enlightenment Projects - The Oxford-Berlin Enlightenment Hub

St John’s College, Oxford
19 Oct
paris

France at War in the Second Twentieth Century: Contemporary representations and memories, 2000–2017

Université Paris - Sorbonne
31 May
chapman lecture

France's Long Reconstruction: In search of the modern republic

Maison Francaise d'Oxford
19 Jun
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GLGW Conference 2019

Rothermere American Institute, 1a South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UB
22 Oct
Worcester College

Massada Public Seminar: Jewish? French? Transnational? Jews in the Resistance in WWII France

Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College
18 Jul
new voices

New Voices in the History of War

All Souls College
22 Jun
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Oxford in the Great War

Somerville College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6H
25 Apr
American Civil War

The American Civil War as a Conservative Revolution

Professor Adam Smith
South School, Examination Schools
6 Jul
cd event british sas soldiers in oman imperial war museum

Workshop: Health, Medicine and Civil-Military Relations

Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE

Outreach Tutor Articles

Preaching the fast day sermon in Westminster Abbey, 1847.

The Crimean Moment and Crucible: Just War, Principles of Peace, and Debates in Victorian Wartime Thought and Culture, 1854-6

Petros Spanou

Pages

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Changing Character of Warfare (CCW)

Research Projects

Globalising and Localising the Great War

Globalising and Localising the Great War

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Mapping the Thirty Years War
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Oxford Centre for European History
Rebellion and Mobilisation

Rebellion and Mobilisation in French and German Colonies
The European Fiscal-Military System 1530-1870

The European Fiscal-Military System 1530-1870
The First World War and Global Religions

The First World War and Global Religions
War and economy in South East Asia

War and Economy in Southeast Asia

Teaching Resources

Wahuriu Itote (General China) on trial in 1954

Wahuriu Intote (General China)

Wahuriu Itote, or General China as he came to be known, remains a highly controversial figure in the history of decolonisation in Kenya. Was the Mau Mau rebellion an anti-colonial, nationalist movement or an internal struggle within the Kikuyu community?