Oxford and empire podcasts
Project lead: Dr Erica Charters
Associate Professor, Global History and the History of Medicine
Director of Oxford's Centre for Global History
Faculty of History
Project Summary
Oxford and Empire podcasts provide permanent, widely accessible, and engaging audio recordings (with accompanying text and images) of the historical relationship between Oxford and empire. Speakers - Oxford residents, local historians, post-holders, and PG students - provide short 5-minute historical background on a variety of buildings, objects, and locations around Oxford. Because these podcasts record a variety of subjects narrated by a range of speakers, they also capture the diversity of individuals within Oxford, as well as the variety of approaches to understanding the legacies of colonialism. In particular, this project integrates academics, students, and Oxford residents to tell the various histories of Oxford and its relationship to empire. It will also enable history postgraduate students to add substantially to the public understanding of Oxford’s imperial past while reflecting upon their discipline’s public and political context.
Project Updates
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