Cambridge University Reporter


Historical Tripos, 2007: 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, 2007 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 293-95) will be as follows:

i No subject specified
ii Royal and princely courts: ancient, medieval, and early modern
iii Epidemics, ideas, and colonialism
iv The Early Modern Parliament, 1509-1689
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 No subject specified
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 No subject specified
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, 2007 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 295-98) will be as follows:
The history of Roman Britain (A)
The Vikings in continental Europe and Britain c.800-c.950   (B)
Atlantic encounters in the age of Columbus   (C)
Martin Luther and the making of the German Reformation   (D)
Thomas Hobbes and the English Revolution, 1640-1651   (E)
The Irish Rebellion of 1641: origins, course, consequences   (F)
Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit mission to China   (G)
The Adams Family and American culture   (H)
L'Année Terrible: war and revolution in France, 1870-1871   (J)
Fin de Siècle Russia, 1891-1917   (I)
Class, party, and the politics of social identity in England, 1914-1945   (K)
TE Lawrence and Gertrude Bell: Britain and the Arabs, 1914-1922   (M)
Gandhi's Politics, 1893-1948: arguments with Indian nationalism   (N)
The political economy of globalization, 1939-1974   (O)
Talking politics: revivalists and nationalists in Eastern Africa, 1936-c.1960   (P)

Candidates for Part II in 2007, 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. 295-98) by offering one of the Special Subjects A, B, C, D, E, F, and G listed above or by offering Paper 3 or one of the Papers 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 28 listed below, or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period before 1750.

Candidates for Part II in 2007, 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 H, I, J, K, M, N, O, and P listed above or by offering Papers 4 or 5 or one of the Papers 6, 7, 19, 20, 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, 2007 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 295-96) 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   Population, development, and environment since 1750: comparative history and policy
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   Death in the Middle Ages, c.1050-c.1550
16   Islamic Spain and North Africa, 711-1610
17   No subject specified
18   Patriarchy, sex, and gender, 1500-1800
19   Ireland since the famine
20   European Fascism, 1919 to the present
21   No subject specified
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 2007, 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.