@oskarcoxjensen

Scholarship

Publications

Chapter

Protest Song and the Popular Voice

  • Cambridge University Press
  • 2026

Book

Our Subversive Voice: The History and Politics of English Protest Songs, 1600–2020

  • McGill-Queen's University Press
  • 2025

Article

The Hymn as Protest Song in England and its Empire, c.1790–1920

  • Yale Journal of Music and Religion
  • 2023

Chapter

'The Arethusa': Slip Songs and the Mainstream Canon, in David Atkinson and Steve Roud (eds), Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century

  • OpenBook
  • 2023

Chapter

The Ballad and the Bible, in James Grande and Brian Murray (eds), Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

  • Bloomsbury
  • 2023

Chapter

Of Sight and Sound, or, Realising The Enraged Musician, in James Grande and Carmel Raz (eds), Sound and Sense in British Romanticism

  • Cambridge University Press
  • 2023

Chapter

13 Red Lion Square: The Mendicity Society, in Charlotte Grant and Alistair Robinson (eds), Cultures of London

  • Bloomsbury
  • 2023

Book

Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London

  • Duckworth Books
  • 2022

Website

Our Subversive Voice: The History and Politics of the English Protest Song

  • Mat Martin Studio
  • 2022

Issue

Music and Politics in Britain, c.1780–1850

  • Special Forum of Journal of British Studies 60, no. 2
  • 2021

Article

Music to Some Consequence: Reaction, Reform, Race

  • Journal of British Studies 60, no. 2
  • 2021

Book

The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London

  • Cambridge University Press
  • 2021

Chapter

“Canny Newcassel”: Marshall’s Musical Metropolis of North Britain, 1798–1820, in Stephanie Carter, Kirsten Gibson, and Roz Southey (eds), Music in North-East England, 1500–1800

  • Boydell and Brewer
  • 2020

Article

Joseph Johnson’s Hat, or, The Storm on Tower Hill

  • Studies in Romanticism 58, no. 4
  • 2019

Article

Of Ships and Spectacles: Maritime Identity in Regency London

  • Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 46, no. 2
  • 2019

Chapter

The Diminution of “Irish” Johnstone, in David O'Shaughnessy (ed.), Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740–1820

  • Cambridge University Press
  • 2019

Chapter

How the Ballad-Singer Lost her “Woice”, in Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford (eds), London Voices

  • University of Chicago Press
  • 2019

Book

Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture, ed. with David Kennerley and Ian Newman

  • Oxford University Press
  • 2018

Chapter

True Courage, in Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture

  • Oxford University Press
  • 2018

Chapter

Dancing the “Waterloo Waltz”: Commemorations of the Hundred Days, with Erica Buurman, in Katherine Astbury and Mark Philp (eds), Napoleon’s Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy

  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2018

Article

First as Farce, then as Tragedy: Waterloo in British Song

  • Studies in Romanticism 56, no. 3
  • 2017

Article

Is He A Dramatist? Or, Something Singular! Staging Dickensian Drama as Practice- Led Research, with Joanna Hofer-Robinson and Emma Whipday

  • Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 43, no. 2
  • 2016

Book

Napoleon and British Song, 1797–1822

  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2015

Article

The Travels of John Magee: Tracing the geographies of Britain’s itinerant print-sellers, 1789–1815

  • Cultural and Social History 11, no. 2
  • 2014

Article

“Strategies of Condescension”: Taming John Bull through the Inversion of Spaces, 1809–14

  • Journal of the Oxford University History Society 8
  • 2012
Oskar Jensen — Novelist, Historian, BBC New Generation Thinker

One of the most exciting new voices in cultural history

— Jacky Bratton

Career

Position

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow

  • Newcastle University
  • 2025

Position

Historical Advisor, Executive Producer, Add. Dialogue...

  • Caspian/InTake Films (If Love Should Die)
  • 2023

Position

Trustee

  • Conway Hall Ethical Society
  • 2023

Position

NUAcT Fellow

  • Newcastle University
  • 2022

Position

Senior Research Associate

  • University of East Anglia
  • 2020

Position

Specialist Advisor

  • Nineteenth Circle
  • 2020

Position

Historical Advisor

  • ITV / Amazon (Vanity Fair TV miniseries)
  • 2018

Position

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

  • Queen Mary University of London
  • 2017

Degree

DPhil

  • University of Oxford
  • 2014

Position

Research Associate

  • King's College London
  • 2013

Position

Ad Hoc Visiting Lecturer

  • University of Exeter
  • 2012

Degree

MSt

  • University of Oxford
  • 2010

Degree

BA/MA

  • University of Oxford
  • 2009

Position

Editor

  • Isis Magazine
  • 2008

Position

Editor

  • Cherwell newspaper
  • 2008
Oskar Jensen — Novelist, Historian, BBC New Generation Thinker

A major advance in scholarship

— TLS

Awards

Award

Indie History Book of the Year (US)

  • Foreword
  • 2025

Award

Shortlisted

  • Wolfson History Prize
  • 2023

Award

New Generation Thinker

  • AHRC/BBC
  • 2022

Award

Fellow

  • Royal Historical Society
  • 2018

Award

Fellow

  • Higher Education Academy
  • 2018

Award

Doctoral Block Grant Partnership

  • AHRC
  • 2010

Award

Hugh Pilkington Scholarship

  • Christ Church, Oxford
  • 2009