Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Historical Tripos, 2018: Amendment to notice of subjects and periods

The Faculty Board of History gives notice that it has amended its announcement of special and specified subjects for Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2018 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 328) as published on 13 July 2016 (Reporter, 6433, 2015–16, p. 766), as follows:

By adding the following to the list of special subjects for Papers 2 and 3:

Roman religion: identity and empire	(A)
Heresy, inquisition, and society: southern France, c. 1150–1320	(F)
Empires and the American imagination, c. 1763–c. 1900	(M)
The Kantian revolution	(O)
International diplomacy and the end of the Cold War in Europe, 1985–91	(R)

By adding the following to the list of specified subjects:

8.	The near east in the age of Justinian and Muhammad, ad 527–700
10.	Living in Athens (Paper C1 of Part II of the Classical Tripos)
26.	Consumption and consumer culture in the United States

Candidates for Part II in 2018, 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, C, E, F, G, and H or by offering one of the Papers 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 21, or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period before 1750.

Candidates for Part II in 2018, 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: 7, 8, 14, 21, and 22.

The Faculty Board is satisfied that no candidate’s preparation for the examination will be adversely affected by these amendments.