Cambridge University Reporter

Historical Tripos, 2008: 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, 2008 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 304-306) will be as follows:

  1. Money and society from late antiquity to the early modern period
  2. Royal and princely courts: ancient, medieval, and early modern
  3. Epidemics, ideas, and colonialism
  4. Modern economic growth: the European experience, 1700-2000
  5. Music in European culture and society 1750-2004
  6. No subject specified
  7. Revolution and revolutionaries in the modern world, 1789-1989
  8. The book in medieval and early modern European society
  9. The uses of literacy in Europe since 1700
  10. Migrants: emigration and immigration within and without Europe, the New World, and the Antipodes from the fourth to the twentieth century
  11. The body and society in Europe, c.1500-1970
  12. No subject specified
  13. 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, 2008 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 306-309) will be as follows:

A 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)
Culture wars in mid-Victorian England, 1848-1859(H)
Saints in medieval society: Francis and Clare of Assisi(I)
Tudor monarchy and its critiques (J)
Class, party, and the politics of social identity in England, 1914-1945(K)
Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the 'Grand Alliance', 1940-1945(L)
T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell: Britain and the Arabs 1914-1922(M)
The political economy of globalization, 1939-1974 (O)
Talking politics: revivalists and nationalists in Eastern Africa, 1936-ca 1960(P)
Martin Luther King Jr and the civil rights movement(Q)

Candidates for Part II in 2008, 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. 306-309) by offering one of the Special Subjects A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, and J listed above or by offering Paper 3 or one of the Papers 10, 12, 13, 14, 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 2008, 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, K, L, M, O, P, and Q listed above or by offering Papers 4 or 5 or one of the Papers 6, 7, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 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, 2008 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 306-307) will be:

  1. History of political thought to c.1700
  2. History of political thought from c.1700 to c.1890
  3. Political philosophy and the history of political thought since c.1890
  4. Population, development, and environment since 1750: comparative history and policy
  5. The rise of the secret world: governments and intelligence communities since c.1900
  6. No subject specified
  7. No subject specified
  8. The Greeks and the supernatural
  9. No subject specified
  10. Transformation of the Roman world
  11. Death in the Middle Ages, c.1050-c.1550
  12. The Near East in the age of Justinian and Muhammad, AD 527-700
  13. No subject specified
  14. No subject specified
  15. Legal thought and the criminal law in early modern Britain, c.1500-1800
  16. The cultural history of early modern cities, 1450-1789
  17. Ireland since the famine
  18. European Fascism, 1919 to the present
  19. The politics of gender: Britain and Ireland 1790-1990
  20. The long road to modernization: Spain, 1800-2000
  21. The French and the British problem c.1688-2006
  22. No subject specified
  23. The history of Africa from 1800 to the present day
  24. The history of the Indian sub-continent from the late eighteenth century to the present day
  25. No subject specified
  26. The history of Latin America in the colonial period c.1500-1830
  27. The British Empire and the Commonwealth from 1780 to the present day
  28. Historical argument and practice

Candidates for Part II in 2008, 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, 18, 20, 22, 23.