Welcome to the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Blog

Welcome to the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Blog! 

The CIH blog is a space to publish and read about some of the latest research by MSt students, DPhil candidates, and Early Career Researchers. Here at Oxford, students and academics across multiple faculties work on a diverse range of periods and subject-matter in Intellectual History. We would like to share these projects with you through short research pieces, interviews and more.

If you have an idea for a blog you would like to pitch, please get in touch with Jacob Chatterjee (jacob.chatterjee@balliol.ox.ac.uk). Blogposts should be 600-800 words. They can explore methodological problems, summarise previous or ongoing research, or present small case-studies of a wider project.

More from the Blog

this map of the island of jamaica by thomas craskell and james simpson

An Aesthetic of Science in British Imperial Cartography of the Caribbean, c. 1700-1775

leviathan

Thomas Hobbes and the Rejection of 'Objective Being'

michael lamb

A Conversation with Michael Lamb | A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine's Political Thought (Princeton, 2022)

crack up capitalism

A conversation with Quinn Slobodian | Crack-Up Capitalism (Penguin, 2023)

culverwell

Nathaniel Culverwell and the early English Reception of Descartes

ming image

The Cambridge School and the Turn to the Present