Cambridge University Reporter


Examination in Economic and Social History for the Degree of Master of Philosophy

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 460)

With effect from 1 October 2005

The regulations have been amended to revise the list of subjects available to be examined by written or other exercises.

Regulation 1(c).

By amending the sub-paragraph so as to read:

(c)Eithertwo written exercises, to be undertaken under conditions specified by the Degree Committee, on each of two subjects chosen by the candidate, subject to the approval of the Degree Committee, from the following list:

1. Rethinking gender and change 1500-1800.
2. Problems and methods in English historical demography before civil registration.
3. The history of economic and social thought.
4. British industrialization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
5. Economic growth, politics, and health since 1750.
6. State and economy in industrial society: Britain and the United States since 1850.
7. Globalization in a historical perspective.

 ortwo written exercises, to be undertaken under conditions specified by the Degree Committee, on one subject chosen by the candidate, subject to the approval of the Degree Committee, from the list above and either one 5,000-word essay or a written examination on the following subject:

Institutions and development1

1 This subject is taken from Group 1 in the examination in Development Studies for the M.Phil. Degree.