Cambridge University Reporter


Historical Tripos, 2010: 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, 2010 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 312-313) 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 Nature and the city in medieval thought
viii The book in medieval and early modern European society
ix 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 Politics of memory in Germany after 1945
xii World war II and its legacy in France
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, 2010 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 314-316) 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)
Martin Luther and the making of the German Reformation (D)
Locke's politics, 1660-1710 (E)
The Irish rebellion of 1641: origins, course, consequences (F)
Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit mission to China (G)
The Adams family and American culture (H)
Making the mid-Victorian mindset, 1848-1854 (I)
Tudor monarchy and its critiques (J)
Fin de siècle Russia, 1891-1917 (K)
Asia's revolutionary underground: from Shanghai to Java, 1918-1948 (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 2010, 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. 314-316) by offering one of the special subjects A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and J listed above or by offering Paper 3 or one of the Papers 10, 12, 13, 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 2010, 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, K, M, N, O, P, and Q 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 subjects for the following papers in Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2010 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 314-316) 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 Ancient Greek democracy and its legacies
9 No subject specified
10 No subject specified
11 No subject specified
12 Transformation of the Roman world
13 Death in the middle ages
14 The Near East in the age of Justinian and Muhammad, AD 527-700
32 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 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 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 2010, 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.