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Luke Bateman reviews the EWF4 paper, or Global Middle Ages.

“No matter what country you’re learning about, you’ll probably bump into Britain.” Nathan Land argues against compulsory British history papers.

John Stewart sheds light on the reality of nurses in World War One, looking beyond the influences of Vera Brittain and Florence Nightingale.

“The story of Tbilisi is one of constant adaptation and rebirth.”

Daniel Morgan sets out the case for the continued relevance of the Historiography Prelims paper.

Yasmin Howells’ creative translation of Wulf and Eadwacer, an Old English Poem found in the Book of Exeter.

Did Oxford University’s bowler hatted police force have any real power? And what does its existence say about the wider university?

Maciej Nowakowski opens his ‘Cities of Hope’ series by looking at Warsaw, “the Paris of the North”.

Maebh Howell discusses Netflix’s The Dig, and how the Old English period is more varied and interesting than the film implies.

Brideshead Revisited: Set in Oxford during the 1920s, it is Waugh’s personal reflection on the aristocratic gay scene of the era. But how accurate is it?

The Global Middle Ages: A Radical New Way of Doing History

Should undergraduate historians be forced to take British history papers?

Tbilisi: Lucky Number 27

In defence of Historiography

On Old English Translation: Wulf’s Tale

“Et in Arcadia Ego”: Brideshead Revisited and Oxford’s 1920s Gay Scene

100 Years of Northern Ireland

Exclusive Interviews With Influential Female Historians at Oxford

Bad Gays: Issues with HIV activism in gay historiography

OHR Editors’ Picks Part Two: from Asante to America

Charting Oxford’s History Through its Pubs

A Town vs Gown Showdown

A Review of HBI IV – What’s Happened to Wales?

Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game

The Global Middle Ages: A Radical New Way of Doing History

Should undergraduate historians be forced to take British history papers?

Looking beyond Brittain and Nightingale

Tbilisi: Lucky Number 27

In defence of Historiography

On Old English Translation: Wulf’s Tale

The Oxford Bulldogs: Bark Worse than their Bite?

Warsaw: Life Imitates Art

The Dig does not approach the Old English period in an exciting, or new way

“Et in Arcadia Ego”: Brideshead Revisited and Oxford’s 1920s Gay Scene