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Welcome to the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Blog! 

Our blog is a space to publish and read about some of the latest research in intellectual history! Below you will find an archive of short research pieces, interviews, and more. New posts are published every few weeks.

If you'd like to contribute to the blog email us at cih@history.ox.ac.uk. We welcome submissions of 800-1200 words on any aspect of intellectual history from students, staff, or researchers at the University of Oxford. We also publish longer form interviews and reflections on recent academic events. 

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

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

17 April 2023
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Nathaniel Culverwell and the early English Reception of Descartes

19 March 2023
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The Cambridge School and the Turn to the Present

02 March 2023
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Gibbon and the Islamic Orient

06 February 2023
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The Common Notion: Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century

30 January 2023
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Psychology and the Origins of Western Marxism

07 November 2022
Portrait of Reinhold Niebuhr in 1948 by Ernest Hamlin Baker in the National Portrait Gallery

The Myth of Reinhold Niebuhr's Political Realism

03 August 2022
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Ukraine: Between West and Different Easts

14 July 2022
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Learning to Worry about the Enlightenment in Korea, 1917

03 June 2022
An illustration of Icaromenippus from the frontispiece of a book called A Voyage in Space.

Journeys to the Moon in Ancient Greece

09 May 2022
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In Search of Zera Yacob: Philosophy in Early Modern Ethiopia

09 April 2022
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A Conversation with Samuel Moyn: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

01 April 2022
A satirical representation of the superheated speculative atmosphere in Britain in the mid-1820s

Revolution, Republicanism, and the End of Empire: Latin America in Victorian Intellectual History

14 February 2022
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Intellectual History and the Problem of Incest

03 February 2022
Stained glass windows from Notre Dame de l'Assomption in Riez representing Saint Faustus

The Nature of the Self in Fifth-Century Gaul

20 January 2022
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Parliamentary Culture and Public Credit: How Merchants Overcame Their Weak Position

14 January 2022
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Parliament and Parliaments from the Gaelic Perspective

11 January 2022
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Parliamentary Culture and Library History in Britain

07 January 2022
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Rituals of Consent or Procedures of Decision-Making? Assemblies of Estates in Early Modern Europe

23 December 2021
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Parliamentary Government, Whig History, and the Cambridge School

20 December 2021
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Exported Early Modern British Political Cultures

18 December 2021
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Dealing with petitions in the English Parliament and the Dutch States General

17 December 2021
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'Proximity' and the Continuities in Parliamentary Representation

15 December 2021
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The English Revolution and the History of Majority Rule

13 December 2021
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Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700: The State of Research

07 December 2021
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Re-imagining Democracy and the Parliamentary Cultures Project

05 December 2021
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When is a Parliament not a Parliament? The Polish-Lithuanian Sejm and Parliamentary Culture

01 December 2021
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The Proud Oxymorons of Venice's Parliamentary Culture

29 November 2021
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Max Weber's Influence on German Economic Thought in the Twentieth Century

26 November 2021
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After the Levellers: On the Non-Mysterious Disappearance of Parliamentary Reform in England

23 November 2021
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Late Medieval Europe: Founding a Parliamentary Culture

18 November 2021
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Informal Counsellors as Royal Agents in Early Modern Parliaments

11 November 2021
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A Natural Match: Iberian Parliamentary Cultures and Republicans of Letters

03 November 2021
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Rhetoric of Debate: A Parliamentary Innovation

27 October 2021
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The Estates General and the King of France: The Imperfect Union

21 October 2021
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Power over the most Powerful: The Paradox of Parliamentarism

15 October 2021
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Interview: Faridah Zaman

10 October 2021
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Representation without a Parliament: How Latin America's Colonial Cities Thrived without Cortes

07 October 2021
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Parliaments as Meeting Places for Political Concepts

30 September 2021
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Recovering Europe's Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700

29 September 2021
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Parliamentary Humanism: The History of Parliaments as The History of Ideas

29 September 2021
Philosophers in Study (1700) by Johann Michael Bretschneider

Gottfried Leibniz as a Projector in a World of Projectors in the 1670s

10 August 2021
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The Venture of the Islamicate: The History of a Key Concept in Islamic Intellectual History

29 July 2021
The Leaders of Europe in Debate during the Congress of Cienna 1814-15

Saint-Simon's Technocratic Internationalism, 1802-1825

27 June 2021
Engraving of Parliament during the Commonwealth 1650

The State and Intellectual History: The Hartlib Circle and the Forgotten Reform of English Education, 1649-53

22 May 2021
Contemporary Rendition of the Revolutionary Flag of Rio Grande do Sul

'Whence came this law of nations?' Emer de Vattel in the Confines of Brazil, 1835-1845

11 May 2021
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Open Frontiers: The Future of Intellectual History/The History of Ideas in 2021

30 April 2021
Portrait of Christopher Hill for Balliol College by Derek Hill

Christopher Hill: A Historian of Ideas?

28 April 2021
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Intellectual History at the End of the World?

15 April 2021