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The Faculties of History and Medieval and Modern Languages along with St Anne’s College, Oxford are delighted to be offering a Study Day dedicated to Year 12 state school students looking to study History and a Modern Language at University/Oxford!
Professor Caroline Warman has been sworn in as Junior Proctor for the coming year
Prospective applicants - join us on 16th May to learn all about our courses!
Congratulations to Dr Marina Perkins, career development fellow at Queen's College, and to Dr Annalisa Nicholson, former Laming fellow at Queen's, and now a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at KCL who held a joint celebration to launch their books: Mar
Dr Maria Clotilde Camboni, Honorary Research Fellow, has published a public engagement article in The Conversation UK presenting a recent discovery concerning a Renaissance manuscript preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Dr Olivier Séguin-Brault, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in French and Senior Demy at Magdalen College, has been awarded the Grand Prix de thèse de la Ville de Tours 2025.
A few words from Hannah: I am delighted to have been awarded the Holocaust Studies prize, which recognises the best article published in the journal each year.
Year 12 state school students - sign up before 2nd March to secure your place!
Daria Nepochatova, DPhil student in Slavonic Studies at the Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages, has been awarded second prize at the 2025 UKRAINET PhD Thesis Presentation Contest.
BRAZILIAN LITERATURE IN THE SPOTLIGHT “Brazil Week” aims to raise awareness about the richness and diversity of Brazilian culture by organising a number of free events open to students, academics, and the general public.
We were delighted to welcome Lord Hague to the faculty on Thursday 29 January. The Chancellor met with academics, professional services staff and student representatives.
A lecture by eminent Brazilian historian Lilia Moritz Schwarcz.
Prof. Karen Leeder was broadcast on BBC radio in December 2025 Poetry - Reading, writing, editing and translating STW 22 December 2025 BBC Radio 4 How much can we truly know about the inner lives of others?
A major conference on Beaumarchais will take place in Oxford on 4 and 5 June 2026. It is organised by Dr Linda Gil of the University of Montpellier and Professor Catriona Seth of Oxford's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
Join us for a chance to experience taking a language from scratch at Oxford!
UNIQ is Oxford’s free access programme for UK state school students. Featuring a sustained contact programme and in-person summer residential, you’ll be taught by Oxford academics and explore subjects aligned with your academic interests.
Our annual creative writing competitions for school pupils are now open for submission