History Research
History research at the Department for Continuing Education
The Department for Continuing Education has a long tradition of teaching and research in historical subjects. Research in the Department is currently focussed on the following areas:
- Late medieval Britain
- Social and economic history in Britain from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century
- The history of religion in Britain from the eighteenth to the twentieth century
- The history of decoration in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- The history of the British in India and the British Empire
- Modern British and European history
- The historic environment
- The British and Irish Civil Wars, 1640-1660
- Local history
Research highlights, past and present:
- The Fray on the Meadow: Violence and a Moment of Government in Early Tudor England, History Workshop Journal (2017, Jon Healey)
- The Raj at War: a People's History of India's Second World War (2015, Yasmin Khan)
- The First Century of Welfare: Poverty and Poor relief in Lancashire 1620-1730 (2014, Jonathan Healey) This book is the first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century, the first century of welfare.
- The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby (2009, Angus Hawkins) The first ever full biography of the 14th Earl of Derby - the first British statesman to become prime minister three times and the longest serving party leader in modern British party politics
The British and Irish Civil Wars, 1640-1660
The British and Irish Civil Wars, 1640-1660
Uncovering the lives of forgotten soldiers and war widows of the British Civil Wars.
The Pioneer Generation: historical narratives of British South Asian lives, 1945-1968
The Pioneer Generation: historical narratives of British South Asian lives, 1945-1968
Yasmin Khan's British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship research programme.
Prices from the Durham Obedientiary Accounts, 1368 – 1460
Prices from the Durham Obedientiary Accounts, 1368 – 1460
A study of commodity prices in the account rolls of Durham Cathedral Priory and its dependent cells in the period 1368 - 1460.
Through an artist’s eye: Felicia Browne and the Spanish Civil War
Through an artist’s eye: Felicia Browne and the Spanish Civil War
Professor Buchanan helps to contextualise the work of Felicia Browne.
Lord Herbert of Cherbury
Lord Herbert of Cherbury
Lord Herbert was a complex, highly accomplished and much travelled Anglo-Welsh nobleman.
Upcoming courses
Qualifications
Drawing on knowledge and skills acquired in many years of providing specialist classes in local history.
Online - flexible • Qualifications
Advance your skills and methodology in researching local, regional and social history with this one-year, part-time online advanced diploma. Taught completely online, the course is taught at third-year undergraduate level.
Qualifications
The two-year part-time Undergraduate Certificate in History introduces key historical periods and is equivalent to the first year of a full-time undergraduate degree in History at Oxford University.
Qualifications
For lovers of art with no previous experience of the subject, this two-year part-time course offers an excellent introduction to those who want to develop their knowledge through structured study.
Qualifications
A flexible, part-time route to an Oxford University qualification. Gain credit from flexible short online courses, weekly classes, and the Oxford University Summer School for Adults. Explore a wide range of subjects in this multidisciplinary programme.