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In spite of decolonisation empire is still with us, in terms of both mindsets and structures.  Its pervasiveness and significance have constantly to be rethought.

- Robert Gildea, Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, author of Empires of the Mind

We welcome research from Oxford students, researchers, and postholders on the relationship between Oxford and empire, or on the history of the British Empire more broadly.  We will be able to help with revisions and images.  We also have potential topics and resources for students interested in identifying research projects, for example for undergraduate theses or master's dissertations.

Please contact us at empire.project@history.ox.ac.uk 

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Veins of Influence through Views of Ceylon - Narratives of A Collection

04 September 2021
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Shen Fuzong & Thomas Hyde

2 June 2021
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The Pitt Rivers Museum Catamaran

16 February 2021
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Arthur Evans: Making a Museum and a Civilization

11 February 2021
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Sima Qian's Imperial Dilemma

05 February 2021
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Colin Kaepernick on 1701 South Carolina Slave Act in Bodleian MS. Rawl. C 155

23 November 2020
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Some Thoughts about Women, Cameras and the British Empire

15 October 2020
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The United States in Africa: A Transimperial History

02 September 2020
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'Only a thickness of wall': Empire and Oxford in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1895)

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Rhodes Must Fall: The Uses of Historical Evidence in the Statue Debate in Oxford 2015-6

11 June 2020
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The Bodleian Shuinjō: Early English Trade with Japan, 1613-1623

25 January 2020
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Makereti : Māori 'Insider' Anthropology at Oxford

23 December 2019
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Geography and Empire: Sir Halford Mackinder in Oxford, 1880-1905

08 October 2019
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The Indian Institute: Monier-Williams and Empire

28 January 2020
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Monuments and Memorialisation: Lessons from Russia and Central Asia

01 July 2020
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Mahatma Gandhi in Oxford

05 October 2019
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The Rhodes Statue - and the Rhodes Building

07 October 2019
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Memorial to Sir William Jones, University College Chapel

06 October 2019
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The Indian Institute

08 October 2019