A new doctoral studentship at Oxford University has been set up in memory of Professor Stuart Hall.
Applications are now open for the DPhil studentship, which will run from 2017-2020 thanks to a collaboration between The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), Merton College and the Stuart Hall Foundation.
The idea of 'hygge' as cosy domestic bliss has become popular across the world, particular in the winter months. But in a guest post, Daniel M. Grimley, an expert in Scandinavian music at Oxford University, explains that the real meaning of 'hygge' is not quite as simple.
Men in the 17th century believed they were outnumbered by women despite a lack of evidence for this claim, new research has revealed.
Dr Margaret Pelling, a historian at Oxford University, looked at books, pamphlets and religious tracts from the period for a study which has now been published in The Historical Journal.
Oxford University’s Botanic Garden will hold its first ever Christmas Fair this weekend.
The Oxford Botanic Garden will install a heated marquee with a special Christmassy atmosphere inside. There will be music from the ‘Horns of Plenty’ and a brass band on Saturday and bongo drummers on both Saturday and Sunday.
Dozens of humanities academics will be taking part in a major public engagement event called FRIGHTFriday tonight (25 November). The event is a collaboration between The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the Ashmolean Museum.
The Gospels of Abba Garima were hidden for centuries in Abba Garima Monastery in the Ethiopian highlands. According to tradition, God miraculously stopped the sun in the sky to allow Saint Abba Garima to complete them in a single day.
Now, for the first time, a photographic exhibition in Oxford is displaying the illuminated pages of the books.
After a dramatic result in last week's US election, Dr Tom Packer of the Rothermere American Institute looks back at what the result means, and what we should look out for in the next few months:
A sensational election night capped a sensational election. As the dust settles, what are some of the key points to be borne in mind?
2016 marks the 75th anniversary of the first human trials of penicillin. As news stories announcing antibiotic apocalypses and new superbugs grow, Back from the Dead, a new special exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford University, charts the miraculous and precarious history of penicillin from the trials in the 1940s to the present day.
Do you have a box hidden deep in the attic or under the bed that holds your great-grandfather’s First World War medals? Or your grandma’s diaries from 1914-1918?
If so, a team at Oxford University wants you to bring them to a 'roadshow' in Oxford this Saturday (12 November). An Oxford podcast explains what happens at a roadshow.
Oxford University Museums and experts from the Saïd Business School are teaming up for the third instalment of their highly successful Oxford Cultural Leaders programme, which will take place from 26 to 31 March 2017.