Online info session: Advanced Diploma in Local History
Date:
12 November 2026
Time:
12:00PM
Location:
Zoom
Event status:
Open
Location:
Zoom
Dates:
12 November 2026
Format:
Online
Level:
Undergraduate
Fees:
FREE
Event Overview
Learn how to uncover the stories, challenge the evidence – and think like a historian.
Take your study of history further with advanced training in local history. Join us for a 45-minute online webinar exploring Oxford’s part-time Advanced Diploma in Local History.
Meet the Course Director Dr Ismini Pells and discover how the programme helps you gain specialist skills to investigate local, regional and social history in-depth. Find out how the methods you learn can be applied anywhere, from your own street to a place you have always been curious about.
You’ll also have the opportunity to ask your questions live, whether you’d like to know more about the course content, the online teaching experience, balancing study with other commitments, or what it’s like to study part-time at Oxford.
During this 45-minute session, Course Director Dr Ismini Pells will introduce the Advanced Diploma in Local History and give you insight into studying the subject at Oxford.
You’ll find out:
- who the course is designed for
- what you’ll study and how the programme is taught
- what the online teaching experience is like
- what to expect from assessments
- what it’s like to study at Oxford as a part-time student
The session will finish with a live Q&A, giving you the chance to put your questions directly to the Course Director.
Course Director
This free information session will take place online via Zoom.
Book your place, and we’ll send you joining instructions ahead of the session.
If you have any issues, you can get in touch with our team at undergraduate@conted.ox.ac.uk.
Learn to follow the stories, challenge the evidence – and think like a historian.
The Advanced Diploma in Local History is a one-year, part-time course taught entirely online, giving you access to Oxford University teaching and resources wherever you are. Study from anywhere in the world with this fully online course, designed to equip you with the skills, source analysis and critical thinking needed to become a historian.
Equivalent to the third year of undergraduate study, you’ll explore the forces that shaped communities over time at a more advanced level. The methods you’ll learn can be applied to any place that matters to you, whether it’s your own street or somewhere you’ve always been curious about.
Discover the Advanced Diploma in Local History.
Dr Ismini Pells is a Departmental Lecturer in English Local and Social History at Oxford Lifelong Learning and Course Director of the Advanced Diploma in Local History. She specialises in the British Civil Wars, with a particular interest in the people and communities affected by conflict. She previously held research positions at the Universities of Leicester and Exeter and has worked with museums including the National Army Museum and Cromwell Museum.