History Events in Oxford

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Oxford Maths Festival

 Sun, 10 May at 10:00 am Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford Free

Francis Fukuyama IN THE REALM OF THE LAST MAN

 Fri, 04 Sep at 07:00 pm Examination Schools, University of Oxford GBP 12 to 30

British Decades

 Mon, 27 Apr at 07:00 pm Magdalen College Free

Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found

 Tue, 07 Jul at 06:00 pm Oxford Festival of the Arts GBP 14

Katja Hoyer WEIMAR

 Wed, 06 May at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 30

Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

 Fri, 08 May at 05:30 pm Mansfield College Free

The making and unmaking of life: Violence, feminism, & politics of justice

 Fri, 15 May at 05:30 pm Mansfield College Free

SJC Literary Festival: Professor Lady Sue Black 'An Expert Witness'

 Sat, 23 May at 03:00 pm Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College Free

Charles Foster THE EDGES OF THE WORLD

 Mon, 01 Jun at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 22

Michael Attwell THE MOORS MURDERS with Triona Adams

 Thu, 04 Jun at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 11

Alison Light RED, RED ROBIN with Lyndal Roper

 Fri, 15 May at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 22

Helene Von Bismarck FANTASTIC KINGDOM with Ciaran Martin

 Tue, 16 Jun at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 25

Erin Maglaque PRESENCE with Alison Light

 Thu, 10 Sep at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 25

Julian Evans UNDEFEATABLE with Luke Harding

 Thu, 24 Sep at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 13

AI Tools for Historical Research

 Thu, 14 May at 05:00 pm Jesus College Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub Free

Lawrence Freedman ON STRATEGISTS AND STRATEGY

 Mon, 28 Sep at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 23

Zakia Sewell FINDING ALBION

 Wed, 09 Sep at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 25

Jonn Elledge 35 INVENTIONS THAT BUILT OUR WORLD

 Fri, 09 Oct at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 25

Queer Fantasies of Naples in French Decadent Literature

 Thu, 07 May at 06:00 pm Il Corno - Panuozzo Bar Free

Ella Al-Shamahi: Becoming Human

 Sat, 23 May at 07:30 pm The North Wall Arts Centre

Peter Jones SELF HELP FROM THE MIDDLE AGES with Helen Carr

 Tue, 23 Jun at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 20

Olivia Plender in Conversation with Dr Kathryn Murphy

 Sat, 23 May at 02:00 pm Modern Art Oxford Free

The Beating Heart: The Art & Science of Our Most Vital Organ

Thu, 14 May at 05:30 pm Broad Street, OX1 3AZ Oxford, United Kingdom

Extraordinary People: Compton Mackenzie and Queer Capri in the 1920s-30s’

 Thu, 04 Jun at 06:00 pm Il Corno - Panuozzo Bar Free

Uncomfortable Oxford - A WALKING TOUR FOR OCS MEMBERS ONLY

 Fri, 08 May at 11:00 am Carfax Tower GBP 9

Elinor Cleghorn A WOMAN'S WORK

 Fri, 01 May at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 22

Reading the signs: Conference at Kellogg college

 Fri, 29 May at 09:30 am The hub, Kellogg College GBP 33

Geoff Andrews RADICALS

 Tue, 05 May at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 25

The Philosophy of Pulcinella

 Thu, 14 May at 06:00 pm Il Corno - Panuozzo Bar Free

…a feather on the breath of God - VOICE

 Sun, 10 May at 04:00 pm St Bartholomew's Chapel, Oxford GBP 17

Encounters with Landscapes

 Fri, 22 May at 07:00 pm Oxford Friends Meeting House GBP 10 to 15

Book at Lunchtime: A Queer Scrapbook

 Wed, 27 May at 12:30 pm Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities Free

Naples in the Novels of Elena Ferrante

 Thu, 28 May at 06:00 pm Il Corno - Panuozzo Bar Free

Christopher A Ford - Sino-American Competition in the 21st Century

 Mon, 18 May at 05:00 pm Noel Salter Room, New College Free

100 years of These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer 18th Century Ball @ the Divinity School with Follia

 Sun, 04 Oct at 06:30 pm Oxford Divinity School

Worcester College gardens - A GUIDED TOUR FOR OCS MEMBERS ONLY

 Wed, 17 Jun at 02:00 pm Worcester College GBP 9

Images of Holiness: Picturing Prayer

 Thu, 11 Jun at 02:30 pm Ashmolean Museum Free

The History and Future of Religion in U.S. Bioethics

 Mon, 04 May at 04:00 pm 00.018 (Learning Centre) Free

Anscombe’s Persistent Protest

 Fri, 01 May at 05:00 pm Blackfriars Hall Free

Cristina Bejan and Paul Kenyon INTELLECTUALS AND FASCISM IN ROMANIA

 Fri, 19 Jun at 12:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop Free

Peter Fiennes EN ROUTE

 Thu, 25 Jun at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 19

The Hunchback of Notre Dame Silent Film

 Mon, 22 Jun at 09:00 pm Magdalen College Chapel GBP 17

Levellers' Day Coach to Burford

 Sat, 09 May at 09:00 am Frideswide Square Free

Maryam Aslany PEASANTS

 Tue, 29 Sep at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 25

Binsey Whimsy Walk

 Sun, 03 May at 02:00 pm St Margaret of Antioch, Church GBP 14

Building a Church out of Herring in a 15th-Century Fishing Village

 Wed, 13 May at 05:00 pm Rewley House Free

From Dinosaurs to Digital

 Mon, 11 May at 06:00 pm Old Fire Station GBP 0 to 33

Wytham Woods Ecology

 Wed, 06 May at 02:00 pm Wytham Woods Free

Oxford in World War II - A GUIDED WALK FOR OCS MEMBERS ONLY

 Thu, 23 Jul at 10:30 am Weston Library GBP 9

Cowley Road International Food Tour

 Sat, 09 May The Plain GBP 7 to 13

David Kynaston DEEP INTO THE SIXTIES

 Fri, 02 Oct at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 35

Finnian Moore Gerety: Soma Sounds - Psychedelic Soundscapes in Early India

 Mon, 01 Jun at 07:30 pm New College, Lecture Room 6 GBP 4

Philipp Nothaft - Pre-Modern Cosmology: An Exploration

 Thu, 21 May at 01:00 pm Old Library Free

SPATIAL HISTORY WORKSHOP: SPACES AND IDENTITY

 Fri, 22 May at 09:30 am Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities Free

May Song in Bartlemas

 Sun, 31 May at 04:00 pm St Bartholomew's Chapel GBP 0 to 6

100 years of 'These Old Shades' by Georgette Heyer at the Bodleian

 Sun, 04 Oct at 11:00 am Bodleian Library

CWGC War Graves Week Tours 2026 - Oxford Botley Cemetery

 Sat, 16 May at 10:30 am Botley Cemetery Free

Book at Lunchtime: Haji Imdadullah

 Wed, 13 May at 12:30 pm Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities Free

Frankenstein’s Dream

 Fri, 12 Jun at 05:30 pm Mansfield College Free

Pope Francis (2013-2025): A Retrospective Assessment

 Thu, 28 May at 05:30 pm Blackfriars Hall Free

CWGC Tours 2026 - Oxford Botley Cemetery

 Sat, 11 Jul at 10:30 am Botley Cemetery Free

Michael Bond ANIMATE with Niall Munro

 Wed, 08 Jul at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 22

Constructing a History of 20th & 21st Century Puerto Rican Dance

 Thu, 21 May at 05:00 pm Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities Free

Bartlemas: Oxford’s hidden sanctuary by Martin Stott

 Thu, 21 May at 06:00 pm St Bartholomew's Chapel, Oxford Free

Lingua ignota: Hildegard’s “unknown” language, Part II

 Sun, 28 Jun at 04:00 pm The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Beckley GBP 17

Samuel Zeitlin - The Geopolitics of Francis Bacon

 Tue, 12 May at 05:00 pm Ship Street Centre

Chlorophil Printing on leaves -Old Photography

 Sat, 06 Jun at 10:00 am 9 Moreton Rd GBP 45

Mixed Ability Historical Dance Class and Rehearsal

 Fri, 22 May at 07:00 pm Cheney School

Oxford Fun Puzzle Treasure Hunt! Singe route or double for racing! :)

 Fri, 26 May at 10:00 am Oxford Train Station GBP 20 to 70

Spooky Oxford Tour

 Thu, 23 Apr at 07:00 pm Saint Aldate's GBP 13 to 25

Picnic and Historical Dancing at The Old School Room, St Peter’s Church

 Fri, 07 Aug at 07:00 pm St Peter's Church, Wolvercote

Historic Oxford Writers Tour

 Fri, 24 Apr at 10:00 am University of Oxford GBP 13 to 25

Human Dignity: Its Roots and Challenges in Western Thought

 Tue, 09 Jun at 06:00 pm Blackfriars Hall Free

Talk and Discussion on An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer led by Dr Helen Davidge

 Wed, 09 Sep at 08:15 pm St Peter's Church, Wolvercote

Spooky Oxford Tour

 Fri, 06 Mar at 04:00 pm Christ Church GBP 13 to 25

A flavour of Oxford

 Sat, 16 May at 01:00 am The Four Candles - JD Wetherspoon Free

Explore Oxford’s hidden treasures with an exciting scavenger hunt!

 Sun, 03 Nov at 07:00 am Oxford Castle & Prison USD 9 to 16

Treasure Hunt Oxford - Towers and Taverns - 2-2½ hours

 Wed, 22 Jul at 08:00 am Oxford Castle GBP 24