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Elizabeth Drayson talks to Miles Young
Voltaire Lecture: The Hidden Islamic Sources of the European Enlightenment
New College: New Space 12:00pm Sat 21 Saturday, 21 March 2026 See this event -
Frank Thabani Sayi and Peter Godwin
The Birth of Zimbabwe: No Safer Kinder Hatred and Exit Wounds
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Sat 21 Saturday, 21 March 2026 See this event -
Alistair Moffat
The North Sea: Along the Edge of Britain
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Sat 21 Saturday, 21 March 2026 See this event -
Luka Jukic
Central Europe: The Death of a Civilisation and the Life of an Idea
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Sat 21 Saturday, 21 March 2026 See this event -
Nigel Biggar and Marie Kawthar Daouda
Empire and the Colonies: Challenging Ideas of Guilt and Victimhood
Pusey House: Chapel 4:00pm Sat 21 Saturday, 21 March 2026 See this event -
Catherine Clarke talks to Lucy Thynne
A History of England in 25 Poems
Oxford University Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 3 12:00pm Sun 22 Sunday, 22 March 2026 See this event -
Jay Griffiths talks to Charles Foster
How Animals Heal Us
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Sun 22 Sunday, 22 March 2026 See this event -
Justin Marozzi talks to Eugene Rogan
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World
Oxford University Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 2 4:00pm Sun 22 Sunday, 22 March 2026 See this event -
Nicola Moorby
Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Mon 23 Monday, 23 March 2026 See this event -
Simon Schama
The History of Antisemitism: A Warning for Today
Sheldonian Theatre 12:00pm Mon 23 Monday, 23 March 2026 See this event -
Alwyn Turner
A Shellshocked Nation: Britain Between The Wars
Pusey House: Chapel 2:00pm Mon 23 Monday, 23 March 2026 See this event -
Diarmaid MacCulloch and Christopher Clark
Sex and the Church and the Scandal in Königsberg
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Mon 23 Monday, 23 March 2026 See this event -
Jonathan Harris
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
Weston Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Mon 23 Monday, 23 March 2026 See this event -
Franny Moyle
Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Extraordinary Entwined Lives of Two 18-Century Painters
Weston Lecture Theatre 10:00am Tue 24 Tuesday, 24 March 2026 See this event -
Colin Shindler talks to Con Coughlin
A Forever War: Israel and Palestine
Magdalen College: Auditorium 10:00am Tue 24 Tuesday, 24 March 2026 See this event -
Clare Jackson and Carol Chillington Rutter
History Makers: James VI and I and Henry Wotton
Pusey House: Chapel 12:00pm Tue 24 Tuesday, 24 March 2026 See this event -
Simon Jenkins and Melissa Butcher
Making Sense of Donald Trump’s United States
Magdalen College: Auditorium 12:00pm Tue 24 Tuesday, 24 March 2026 See this event -
Clare Mulley
Agent ZO: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka
Bodleian: Convocation House 2:00pm Tue 24 Tuesday, 24 March 2026 See this event -
Harriet Cullen talks to Simon Heffer
Lady Pamela Berry: Passion, Politics and Power
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Tue 24 Tuesday, 24 March 2026 See this event -
Robert Winder and Vanessa Taylor
Great Rivers: The Current that Runs through Human History
Weston Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Tue 24 Tuesday, 24 March 2026 See this event -
John Blair
Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World
Bodleian: Convocation House 10:00am Wed 25 Wednesday, 25 March 2026 See this event -
Dan Jones and Jo Harkin
Lion Hearts and The Pretender
Sheldonian Theatre 10:00am Wed 25 Wednesday, 25 March 2026 See this event -
Tim Bouverie
Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler
Pusey House: Chapel 12:00pm Wed 25 Wednesday, 25 March 2026 See this event -
Simukai Chigudu
Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire
Bodleian: Convocation House 12:00pm Wed 25 Wednesday, 25 March 2026 See this event -
Justine Picardie
Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Wed 25 Wednesday, 25 March 2026 See this event -
Jack Hartnell and Ruben Verwaal
Medical Image and Mythology: The Wound Man and Blood, Sweat and Tears
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Wed 25 Wednesday, 25 March 2026 See this event -
Luke Kemp
Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Wed 25 Wednesday, 25 March 2026 See this event -
Matt Cook and Rebecca Jennings
A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland Since 1945
Weston Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Wed 25 Wednesday, 25 March 2026 See this event -
Antony Beevor
Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs
Sheldonian Theatre 4:00pm Wed 25 Wednesday, 25 March 2026 See this event -
Steven Parissien
Another Round: A Post-War History of Britain in 12 Strong Drinks
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Wed 25 Wednesday, 25 March 2026 See this event -
Fawaz Gerges
The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 10:00am Thu 26 Thursday, 26 March 2026 See this event -
Alice Loxton and Hetta Howes
Medieval Women: A Forgotten Queen and Extraordinary Lives
Pusey House: Chapel 10:00am Thu 26 Thursday, 26 March 2026 See this event -
James Fox
Craft Land: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades
Pusey House: Ursell Room 12:00pm Thu 26 Thursday, 26 March 2026 See this event -
Anne Sebba talks to Louisa Treger
The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
Pusey House: Chapel 2:00pm Thu 26 Thursday, 26 March 2026 See this event -
Andrew Martin
To the Sea by Train: The Golden Age of Railway Travel
Pusey House: Ursell Room 2:00pm Thu 26 Thursday, 26 March 2026 See this event -
David Woodman
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom
Exeter College: Chapel 2:00pm Thu 26 Thursday, 26 March 2026 See this event -
Tim Marshall
Prisoners of Geography
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Thu 26 Thursday, 26 March 2026 See this event -
Ben Barry
The Rise and Fall of the British Army, 1975–2025
Weston Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Thu 26 Thursday, 26 March 2026 See this event -
Martin Plaut talks to Nigel Biggar
Unbroken Chains: A 5,000-Year History of African Enslavement
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Fri 27 Friday, 27 March 2026 See this event -
Carolyn Kirby and Anthony Delaney
Gender Fluid Georgians
Weston Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Fri 27 Friday, 27 March 2026 See this event -
Ludovic Orlando
Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Fri 27 Friday, 27 March 2026 See this event -
Eamonn Gearon talks to Eugene Rogan
The Arab Bureau: The Story of Britain’s Most Ingenious Intelligence Unit
Pusey House: Ursell Room 4:00pm Fri 27 Friday, 27 March 2026 See this event -
Kelly Grovier and Lachlan Goudie
The Artist’s Brush: The Secrets Behind Great Paintings
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 10:00am Sat 28 Saturday, 28 March 2026 See this event -
Nick Higham
Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Sat 28 Saturday, 28 March 2026 See this event -
Penny Mordaunt
Pomp and Circumstance: Why Britain’s Traditions Matter
Oxford University Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 1 12:00pm Sat 28 Saturday, 28 March 2026 See this event -
Eleanor Chan
Duet: An Artful History of Music
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Sat 28 Saturday, 28 March 2026 See this event -
Sven Beckert
American Lecture. Capitalism: A Global History
Oxford University Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 1 6:00pm Sat 28 Saturday, 28 March 2026 See this event -
Amy Jeffs, Gwen Burns and Natalie Brice
Old Songs: Stories of Love and Death from Traditional Ballads
Pusey House: Chapel 6:00pm Sat 28 Saturday, 28 March 2026 See this event -
Barry Cunliffe
Driven by the Monsoons: Through the Indian Ocean and the Seas of China
Oxford University Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 2 10:00am Sun 29 Sunday, 29 March 2026 See this event -
Philip Stephens
These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland Past and Future
Weston Lecture Theatre 10:00am Sun 29 Sunday, 29 March 2026 See this event -
Tharik Hussain
Muslim Europe: A Journey in Search of a Fourteen Hundred-Year History
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 10:00am Sun 29 Sunday, 29 March 2026 See this event -
Adam Smith and Kevin Weddle
Saratoga and Gettysburg: Great Battles of US History
Oxford University Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 2 12:00pm Sun 29 Sunday, 29 March 2026 See this event -
Amanda Rubin
The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation
Weston Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Sun 29 Sunday, 29 March 2026 See this event -
Ruth Larsen
Mistress: A History of Women and their Country Houses
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Sun 29 Sunday, 29 March 2026 See this event -
Jonathan Freedland
The Traitors Circle: The Rebels Against the Nazis and the Spy Who Betrayed Them
Oxford University Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 3 2:00pm Sun 29 Sunday, 29 March 2026 See this event -
Matthew Ford
War in the Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity and the Crises at Our Fingertips
Weston Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Sun 29 Sunday, 29 March 2026 See this event -
Juliet Nicolson
The Book of Revelations: Women and their Secrets
Oxford University Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 3 4:00pm Sun 29 Sunday, 29 March 2026 See this event -
Samira Ahmed
A Hard Day’s Night
Oxford University Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 2 4:00pm Sun 29 Sunday, 29 March 2026 See this event