The Faculty Board of History give notice that the options for Paper 1 of Part I of the Historical Tripos, 2009 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 303-04) will be as follows:
| i | Money and society from late antiquity to the early modern period |
| ii | Royal and princely courts: ancient, medieval, and early modern |
| iii | Epidemics, ideas, and colonialism |
| iv | Modern economic growth: the European experience, 1700-2000 |
| v | Music in European culture and society 1750-2004 |
| vi | Democracy in theory and practice: an Anglo-American perspective |
| vii | No subject specified |
| viii | The book in medieval and early modern European society |
| xi | The history of collecting |
| 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 | No subject specified |
| 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, 2009 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 304-07) will be as follows:
| Knowledge, wealth, and power in the Roman Empire | (A) |
| The Vikings in continental Europe and Britain c.800-c.950 | (B) |
| Saints in medieval society: Francis and Clare of Assisi | (C) |
| Tudor monarchy and its critiques | (D) |
| Locke's politics, 1650-1710 | (E) |
| The Irish Rebellion of 1641: origins, course, consequences | (F) |
| Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit mission to China | (G) |
| The Adams Family and American culturev | (H) |
| Culture wars in mid-Victorian England, 1848-1859 | (I) |
| Fin de siècle Russia, 1891-1917 | (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) |
| Margaret Mead and the public face of social science, c.1928-c.1978 | (N) |
| The political economy of globalization, 1939-1974 | (O) |
| Martin Luther King Jr and the civil rights movement | (Q) |
Candidates for Part II in 2009, 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 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 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 28 listed below, or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period before 1750.
Candidates for Part II in 2009, 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, K, L, M, N, O, and Q listed above or by offering Papers 4 or 5 or one of the Papers 6, 7, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 25, 26, 29 listed below, or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period after 1750.
The subjects for the following papers in Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2009 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 304-07) 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 The Greeks and the supernatural
11 No subject specified
12 Transformation of the Roman world
13 No subject specified
14 The Near East in the age of Justinian and Muhammad, AD 527-700
15 Jewish presence in medieval society
16 No subject specified
17 Legal thought and the criminal law in early modern Britain, c.1500-1800
18 No subject specified
19 Ireland since the famine
20 The French and the British problem c.1688-2006
21 The politics of gender in Britain c.1790-1990
22 The long road to modernization: Spain, 1800-2000
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 No subject specified
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 2009, 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, 15, 20, 22.