# Faculty of History, University of Oxford

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, 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.

## Organisation

As with other departments at the University of Oxford, the Faculty of History is self-governing, being led by a rotating group of its academics. The Chair of the Faculty Board is the head of the History Faculty, who typically serves a three-year term.

### Chairs of the Faculty Board

* 2000-2002: Felicity Heal, Jesus College
* 2002-2004: Christopher Haigh, Christ Church
* 2004-2006: John Robertson, St Hugh's College
* 2006-2009: Christopher Haigh, Christ Church
* 2009-2012: Chris Wickham, All Souls College
* 2012-2015: Jane Humphries, All Souls College
* 2015-2018: Martin Conway, Balliol College
* 2018-2021: John Watts, Corpus Christi College
* 2021-2024: Robert Iliffe, Linacre College
* 2024-present: Martin Conway, Balliol College

### Endowed chairs

The Faculty of History is home to numerous professorships (or chairs), which are typically linked to a particular college. Each endowed chair is listed below alongside their associated college and current postholder.
* Regius Professor of History (Oriel College): Lyndal Roper
* Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History (The Queen's College): Lisa McGirr
* Rhodes Professor of American History (St Catherine's College): Pekka Hämäläinen
* Professor of the History of Art (Trinity College): Geoffrey Batchen
* Beit Professor of Commonwealth History (Balliol College): James Belich
* Chichele Professor of Economic History (All Souls College): Sheilagh Ogilvie
* Professor of Economic History (All Souls College): Debin Ma
* Professor of Economic and Social History (St Hilda's College): Catherine Schenk
* Professor of Global and Imperial History (Nuffield College): Andrew Thompson
* Professor of Indian History (St Antony's College): Faisal Devji
* Foster Professor of Irish History (Hertford College): Ian McBride
* Chichele Professor of Medieval History (All Souls College): Julia M. H. Smith
* Professor of Modern History (Worcester College): Patricia Clavin
* Professor of the History of Science (Linacre College): Robert Iliffe
* Jonathan Cooper Professor of the History of Sexuality (Mansfield College): Matt Cook
* Chichele Professor of the History of War (All Souls College): Peter H. Wilson
* Hillary Rodham Clinton Professor of Women's History (St John's College): Sarah Knott

## 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 academics

* Martin Biddle
* John Blair
* 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
* Pekka Hämäläinen
* Brian Harrison
* Peter Harrison
* Felicity Heal
* Clive Holmes
* Daniel Walker Howe
* Martin Kemp
* Yasmin Khan
* 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
* Sir 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
* John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia
* Graham Greene
* Dominic Grieve, Attorney General of the United Kingdom
* 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