Concentrating each year on a specific period of British history and culture, British Studies At Oxford combines a wide-range of seminar courses in Humanities and Social Science subjects taught by British and American faculty, with a program of lectures, workshops, study excursions to essential sites, and theater visits.

The aim is to produce an intense and creative educational experience which is both absorbing and enormous fun. Offered annually since 1970, it has been held since 1980 in St. John's College in Oxford.

In 2013 the program will include an optional visit to the sites of the battlefields of the First World War in northern France and Belgium, unmissable in the 99th anniversary year of the outbreak of that defining event.