< Previous page ^ Table of Contents Next page >

Historical Tripos, 2005: Notice of subjects and periods

The Faculty Board of History give notice that the options for Paper 1 of Part I of the Historical Tripos, 2005 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 311-13) will be as follows:

iHoly War: Islam and the West
ii Royal and princely courts: ancient, medieval, and early modern
iii No subject specified
iv Science and magic in early modern Europe
v No subject specified
vi Democracy in theory and practice: an Anglo-American perspective
vii Revolution and revolutionaries in the modern world, 1789-1989
viii The book in medieval and early modern European society
ix The uses of literacy in Europe since 1700
x Migrants: emigration and immigration within and without Europe, the New World, and the Antipodes from the fourth to the twentieth century
xi The body and society in Europe, c.1500-1970
xii Disease and society in pre-industrial Europe, 1348-1665
xiii Utopian writing, 1516-1789

The Faculty Board of History give notice that the Special Subjects for Papers 1 and 2 of Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2005 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 312-313) will be as follows:

The history of Roman Britain (A)
Saints in medieval society: Francis and Clare of Assisi (B)
Atlantic encounters in the age of Columbus (C)
Martin Luther and the making of the German Reformation (D)
Oliver Cromwell and his critics, 1599-1698 (E)
Tudor monarchy and its critiques (F)
American women in a revolutionary age, 1760-1810 (G)
Culture wars in mid-Victorian England, 1848-1859 (H)
Fin de siècle Russia, 1891-1917 (I)
L'Année Terrible: war and revolution in France, 1870-1871 (J)
The political theory of Thomas Hobbes (K)
TE Lawrence and Gertrude Bell: Britain and the Arabs, 1914-1922 (M)
Economic and Social History of the Third Reich (P)

Candidates for Part II in 2005, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper falling mainly in the period before 1750, may meet the requirement to take a pre-1750 paper in Part II (Statutes and Ordinances, p 312-313) by offering one of the Special Subjects A, B, C, D, E, F, and K listed above or by offering Paper 3 or one of the Papers 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 28 listed below, or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period before 1750.

Candidates for Part II in 2005, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper falling mainly in the period after 1750, may meet the requirement to take a post-1750 paper in Part II by offering one of the Special Subjects G, H, I, J, M, and P listed above or by offering Papers 4 or 5 or one of the Papers 6, 7, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 29 listed below, or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period after 1750.

The Board also give notice that the subjects for the following papers in Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2005 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 312-313) will be:

3 History of political thought to c.1700
4 History of political thought from c.1700 to c.1890
5 Political philosophy and the history of political thought since c.1890
6 Japan and the West: development contrasts
7 The rise of the secret world: governments and intelligence communities since c.1900
8 No subject specified
9 The Near East in the age of Justinian and Muhammad, AD 527-700
10 No subject specified
11 No subject specified
12 Transformation of the Roman World
13 Law and disorder in England, c.1250-1500
14 The Vikings in Europe, c.800-1100 (also serves as Paper 14 of Part II of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos)
15 Death in the Middle Ages, c.1050-c.1550
16 Islamic Spain and North Africa, 711-1610
17 Governance and community in England, 1550-1800
18 The cultural history of early modern cities: 1450-1789
19 The politics of gender: Britain and Ireland, 1790-1990
20 European Fascism, 1919 to the present
21 The nationalization of culture in Britain since 1800
22 No subject specified
23 No subject specified
24 No subject specified
25 The history of Africa from 1800 to the present day
26 The history of the Indian sub-continent from the late eighteenth century to the present day
27 The rise and fall of segregation in the American South
28 The History of Latin America in the Colonial Period c.1500-1830
29 The British Empire and the Commonwealth from 1780 to the present day
30 Historical argument and practice

Candidates for Part II in 2005, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper in European History, may meet the requirement to take a European History paper in Part II by offering one of the following papers: 12, 14, 16, 18, 20.


< Previous page ^ Table of Contents Next page >

Cambridge University Reporter, 18 June 2003
Copyright © 2003 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.