St Anne’s is the home of choice for the brightest and most ambitious students, including those from underrepresented groups.
St Anne’s is one of Oxford’s largest colleges, with over 800 students. Our Fellows’ world leading research ranges across the arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics, and physical, life and medical sciences.
Our diverse, inclusive community extends around the globe through our alumnae, who build on their experiences here to change the world for the better.
Situated within 5 acres of tranquil leafy grounds, St Anne’s enjoys a unique atmosphere in which to hold any conference, dinner or special event.
The Ancient and Modern History course enables students to study Afroeurasian history from the Bronze Age Mediterranean, through the Greco-Roman period, late antiquity, the Middle Ages and the early modern period, right up to British, European and World history in the present day. Fruitful comparisons between societies abound, and the methods by which we study them are mutually illuminating.
You do not need to have a qualification in Latin or Greek to do this course and can learn either from scratch if you want to while here.
St Anne’s is well-equipped (and correspondingly eager) to teach Ancient and Modern History, since we have in-house tutors in both Ancient History (Dr Ed Bispham) and Modern History. Amongst the modernists Peter Ghosh has a research interest in Gibbon and classical tradition and we much enjoying the Historiography course that runs ‘From Tacitus to Weber’. But of course ‘Ancient and Modern History’ embraces history in its entirety, and is by no means limited to specific connections of this kind, important though they are. St Anne’s also has a strong Classics department and a flourishing Classics Society, providing many opportunities to share ideas with other students and graduates at various stages in their degrees.
Stipendiary Lecturer in Ancient History and Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose College
St Anne’s is a down-to-earth, friendly and independent-minded college that takes people for what they are. It is modern in its outlook and architecture and open to the world, informal and yet academically demanding.