Periods: | 1 = Early | 2 = Middle | 3 = Late |
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Location: | A: British and Irish |
B: European |
C: Asian, African, American, Global and Transnational |
Preliminary Examination in History
No. | Paper Title | Period | Location |
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[1] | History of the British Isles | ||
BIP1 | The British Isles, 300-1100 | 1 | A |
BIP2 | The British Isles, 1000-1330 | 1 | A |
BIP3 | The British Isles, 1330-1550 | 2 | A |
BIP4 | The British Isles, 1500-1700 | 2 | A |
BIP5 | The British Isles, 1688-1848 | 3 | A |
BIP6 | The British Isles, 1830-1951 | 3 | A |
[2] | European and World History | ||
EWP1 | Transformation of the Ancient World, 370-900 | 1 | B, C |
EWP2 | Communities, Connections and Confrontations, 1000-1300 | 1 | B, C |
EWP3 | Renaissance, Recovery & Reform, 1400-1650 | 2 | B |
EWP4 | Society, Nation and Empire, 1815-1914 | 3 | B |
[3] | Optional Subjects | ||
OS1 | Theories of the State: Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx | B | |
OS2 | Alfred and the Vikings: Conflict, Culture and Identity in the Early Middle Ages | A | |
OS3 | Early Gothic France, c.1100-c.1150 | B | |
OS4 | The Mongols | C | |
OS5 | Edward II and the Crises of the Early Fourteenth Century, 1307-27 | A | |
OS6 | Crime and Punishment in England, c.1280-c.1450 | A | |
OS7 | Nature and Art in the Renaissance | A, B | |
OS8 | Witch-craft and Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe | A, B | |
OS9 | Making England Protestant, 1558-1642 | A | |
OS10 | Conquest and Colonization: Spain and America in the Sixteenth Century | C | |
OS11 | Revolution and Empire in France, 1789-1815 | B | |
OS12 | Women, Gender and the Nation: Britain, 1789-1825 | A | |
OS13 | Brigands in a Landscape: Banditry, Rural Crime and Rebellion in the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions c.1750-1950 | B | |
OS14 | When Neighbours became Strangers: Violence, Community and Identity in Late Ottoman Syria, c. 1840-1900 | B, C | |
OS15 | Haiti and Louisiana: The Problem of Revolution in an Age of Slavery | C | |
OS16 | Imperial Republic: The United States and Global Imperialism, 1867-1914 | C | |
OS17 | The New Woman in Britain and Ireland, c.1880-1920 | A | |
OS18 | The Rise and Crises of European Socialisms, 1883-1921 | B | |
OS19 | 1919: Remaking the World | B, C | |
OS20 | Living with the Enemy: the Experience of the Second World War in Europe | B | |
OS21 | Global USSR: Empires, Borders and Identities | B | |
OS22 | Viewing Communism: Cinema and Everyday Life in Eastern Europe, 1944-1989 | B | |
OS23 | The World of Homer and Hesiod | B | |
OS24 | Augustan Rome | B | |
OS25 | Industrialization in Britain and France, 1750-1870 (History and Economics only) | A, B | |
[4] |
Paper 4 | ||
App | Approaches to History | ||
Hogy | Historiography: Tacitus to Weber | ||
Quant | Quantification in History | ||
FT1 | Foreign Text : Herodotus | ||
FT2 | Foreign Text : Einhard and Asser | ||
FT3 | Foreign Text : Tocqueville | ||
FT4 | Foreign Text : Meinecke and Kehr | ||
FT5 | Foreign Text : Machiavelli | ||
FT6 | Foreign Text : Vicens-Vives | ||
FT7 | Foreign Text : Trotsky |
Final Honour School of History
No. | Paper Title | Period | Location |
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[1] | History of the British Isles | ||
BIF1 | The Early Medieval British Isles, 300-1100 | 1 | A |
BIF2 | The British Isles in the Central Middle Ages, 1000-1330 | 1 | A |
BIF3 | The Late Medieval British Isles, 1330-1550 | 2 | A |
BIF4 | Reformations and Revolutions, 1500-1700 | 2 | A |
BIF5 | Liberty, Commerce and Power, 1685-1830 | 3 | A |
BIF6 | Power, Politics and the People, 1815-1924 | 3 | A |
BIF7 | Changing Identities, 1900-present | 3 | A |
BITa | Theme: Bodies of Feeling: Gender and Sexual Identity since c.1500 | A | |
BITb | Theme: The Making and Unmaking of the United Kingdom, 1603-present | A | |
[2] | European and World History | ||
EWF1 | The World of Late Antiquity, 250-650 | 1 | B, C |
EWF2 | The Early Medieval World, 600-1000 | 1 | B, C |
EWF3 | The Central Middle Ages, 900-1300 | 1 | B, C |
EWF4 | The Global Middle Ages, 500-1500 | 1 | C |
EWF5 | The Late Medieval World, 1300-1525 | 2 | B, C |
EWF6 | Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 | 2 | B |
EWF7 | Eurasian Empires, 1450-1800 | 2 | C |
EWF8 | Enlightenments and Revolutions: Europe 1680-1815 | 3 | B |
EWF9 | From Independence to Empire: America 1763-1898 | 3 | C |
EWF10 | The European Century, 1820-1925 | 3 | B |
EWF11 | Imperial and Global History, 1750-1930 | 3 | C |
EWF12 | The Making of Modern America since 1863 | 3 | C |
EWF13 | Europe Divided, 1914-1989: Crises, Conflicts, Identities | 3 | B |
EWF14 | The Global Twentieth Century, 1930-2003 | 3 | C |
EWTa | Theme: Masculinity and its Discontents, 200-2000 | B, C | |
EWTb | Theme: Global Networks of Innovation, 1000-1700: China, Islam and the Rise of the West | B, C | |
EWTc | Theme: Waging War in Eurasia, 1200-1945 | B, C | |
[3] | Further Subjects | ||
FS1 | Anglo-Saxon Archaeology c. 600-750: Society and Economy in the early Christian period | A | |
FS2 | Anglo-Saxon Culture: Word, Image, Power | A | |
FS3 | The Near East in the Age of Justinian and Muhammad, 527-c.700 | B, C | |
FS4 | The Carolingian Renaissance | B | |
FS5 | The Crusades, c.1095-1291 | B, C | |
FS6 | Culture and Society in Early Renaissance Italy, 1290-1348 | B | |
FS7 | Flanders and Italy in the Quattrocento, 1420-1480 | B | |
FS8 | The Wars of the Roses, c.1450-c.1500 | A | |
FS9 | Gender and Protestant Cultures in England, 1558-1659 | A | |
FS10 | Literature and Politics in Early Modern England | A | |
FS11 | The Iberian Global Century, 1550-1650 | B, C | |
FS12 | Writing in the Early Modern Period, 1550-1750 | A, B, C | |
FS13 | Court Culture and Art in Early Modern Europe, 1580-1700 | B | |
FS14 | War and Society in Britain and Europe, c.1650-1815 | A, B | |
FS15 | The Metropolitan Crucible: London, 1685-1815 | A | |
FS16 | Histories of Madness and Mental Healing in a Global Context | A, C | |
FS17 | Medicine, Empire and Improvement, 1720-1820 | A, C | |
FS18 | Constructing the First New Nation: A Political History of the United States, 1781-1803 | C | |
FS19 | Nationalism in Western Europe, c.1799-1890 | B | |
FS20 | Intellect and Culture in Victorian Britain | A | |
FS21 | The Authority of Nature: Race, Heredity and Crime, 1800-1940 | A, B, C | |
FS22 | The Middle East in the Age of Empire, 1830-1971 | C | |
FS23 | Transformations and Transitions in African History since c. 1800 | C | |
FS24 | Modern Japan, 1868-1972 | C | |
FS25 | The Development of the World Economy since 1800 (HECO only) | C | |
FS26 | Nationalism, Politics and Culture in Ireland, c.1870-1921 | A | |
FS27 | A Global War, 1914-1919 | B, C | |
FS28 | China since 1900 | C | |
FS29 | The Soviet Union, 1924-1941 | B | |
FS30 | Culture, Politics and Identity in Cold War Europe, 1945-1968 | B | |
FS31 | America's Hidden Empire: Soft Power and US Influence during the Cold War | C | |
FS32 | The Jews in Poland in the Twentieth Century: History and Memory | B | |
FS33 | Britain at the Movies: Film and National Identity since 1914 | A | |
FS34 | Scholastic and Humanist Political Thought | A, B | |
FS35 | Political and Social Thought in the Age of Enlightenment | A, B | |
FS36 | Political Theory and Social Science, c.1780-1920 | A, B, C | |
FS37 | Postcolonial Historiography: Writing the (Indian) Nation | C | |
FS38 | Women’s Liberation: Feminism in Britain, c. 1969-1990 | A | |
FS39 | Modern Mexico, 1876-1994 | C | |
[4,5] | Special Subjects | ||
SS1 | St Augustine and the Last Days of Rome, 370-430 | B, C | |
SS2 | Francia in the Age of Clovis and Gregory of Tours | B | |
SS3 | On the Road to Baghdad, 892-1055 | B, C | |
SS4 | Byzantium in the Age of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, 913-959 | C | |
SS5 | The Norman Conquest of England | A | |
SS6 | The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 | A | |
SS7 | Joan of Arc and her Age, 1419-1435 | B | |
SS8 | Painting and Culture in Ming China | C | |
SS9 | Politics, Art and Culture in the Italian Renaissance, Venice and Florence | B | |
SS10 | The Peasants' War of 1525 | B | |
SS11 | The Trial of the Tudor State: Politics, Religion and Society, 1540-1560 | A | |
SS12 | The Crisis of the Reformation: Political Thought and Religious Ideas, 1560-1610 | A, B | |
SS13 | The Thirty Years’ War | B | |
SS14 | The Scientific Movement in the Seventeenth Century | A, B | |
SS15 | Revolution and Republic, 1647-1658 | A | |
SS16 | English Architecture, 1660-1720 | A | |
SS17 | Imperial Crisis and Reform, 1774-1784 | A | |
SS18 | Becoming a Citizen, c.1860-1902 | A | |
SS19 | Race, Sex and Medicine in the Early Atlantic World | C | |
SS20 | Art and its Public in France, 1815-1867 | B | |
SS21 | Slavery, Emancipation and the Crisis of the Union, 1848-1865 | C | |
SS22 | Race, Religion and Resistance in the United States, from Jim Crow to Civil Rights | C | |
SS23 | Terror and Forced Labour in Stalin’s Russia | B, C | |
SS24 | Empire and Nation in Russia and the USSR | B, C | |
SS25 | From Gandhi to the Green Revolution: India, Independence and Modernity, 1939-1969 | C | |
SS26 | Nazi Germany, a racial order, 1933-1945 | B | |
SS27 | France from the Popular Front to the Liberation, 1936-1944 | B | |
SS28 | War and Reconstruction: Ideas, Politics and Social Change, 1939-1945 | A | |
SS29 | Britain from the Bomb to the Beatles: Gender, Class, and Social Change, 1945-1967 | A | |
SS30 | The Northern Ireland Troubles, 1965-1985 | A | |
SS31 | Pop and the Art of the Sixties | A, B, C | |
SS32 | Britain in the Seventies | A | |
SS33 | Neoliberalism and Postmodernism: Ideas, Politics and Culture in Europe and North America, 1970-2000 | B, C | |
SS34 | Revolutions of 1989 | B | |
SS35 | Art and Politics: Class and Power in Chinese Art | C | |
SS36 | Art and the Invention of Race | A, C | |
[6] | Disciplines of History | ||
[7] | Compulsory Thesis |