The Faculty Board of History give notice that the options for Paper 1 of Part I of the Historical Tripos, 2006 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 301-304) will be as follows:
| i | No subject specified |
| ii | Royal and princely courts: ancient, medieval, and early modern |
| iii | Epidemics, ideas, and colonialism |
| iv | No subject specified |
| v | Music in European culture and society, 1750-2004 |
| 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, 2006 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 304-307) will be as follows:
| The history of Roman Britain | (A) |
| Saints in medieval society: Francis and Clare of Assisi | (B) |
| Martin Luther and the making of the German Reformation | (D) |
| Tudor monarchy and its critiques | (F) |
| Thomas Hobbes and the English Revolution, 1640-1651 | (K) |
| American women in a revolutionary age, 1760-1810 | (G) |
| Culture wars in mid-Victorian England, 1848-1859 | (H) |
| L'Annee Terrible: war and revolution in France, 1870-1871 | (J) |
| Fin de Siècle Russia, 1891-1917 | (I) |
| Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the 'Grand Alliance', 1940-1945 | (L) |
| Gandhi's politics, 1893-1948 | (N) |
| The political economy of globalization, 1939-1974 | (O) |
Candidates for Part II in 2006, 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, pp. 304-307) by offering one of the Special Subjects A, B, D, F, and K listed above or by offering Paper 3 or one of the Papers 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 28 listed below, or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period before 1750.
Candidates for Part II in 2006, 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, L, N, and O listed above or by offering Papers 4 or 5 or one of the Papers 6, 7, 19, 20, 21, 24, 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, 2006 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 304-307) 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 | No subject specified |
| 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 Near East in the age of Justinian and Muhammad, AD 527-700 |
| 15 | No subject specified |
| 16 | Islamic Spain and North Africa, 711-1610 |
| 17 | No subject specified |
| 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 c.1800 |
| 22 | No subject specified |
| 23 | No subject specified |
| 24 | Culture and identity in Britain's long eighteenth century |
| 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 2006, 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.