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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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The Cultural History of Ideas

13 April 2021
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Intellectual History and the "Decline of Magic"

12 April 2021
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Defining the History of Political Thought: An Early Modernist's View

10 April 2021
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Do Ideas Matter? Intellectual History and the History of Public Policy

08 April 2021
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Enlightenment Studies at Oxford: Intellectual History Across the Disciplines

05 April 2021
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The History of Pre-Modern Knowledge: Oxford and Beyond

02 April 2021
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Milton, Literary Studies, and Intellectual History

31 March 2021
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The Conditions of Intellectual Work

30 March 2021
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Theories of Race and Empire

23 March 2021
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Intellectual History and the History of Sexuality

22 March 2021
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The Idea of 'Climate' in Intellectual History, 1688-1767

17 March 2021
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On Leibniz's Description of Hobbes as 'plusquam nominalis', 1670-1677

28 February 2021
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Scholarly Melancholy in the German Enlightenment, 1760-1800

11 February 2021
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Writing for the Academy: The Rhetoric of Rousseau's First Discourse, 1750

31 December 2020
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Welcome to the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Blog

02 December 2020