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The Preliminary Examination

Final Honour School

The Preliminary Examination

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History of the British Isles

British I, c.300-1087.
British II, 1042–1330.

British III, 1330-1550.
British IV, 1500–1700.
British V, 1685–1830.
British VI, 1815–1924.
British VII, since 1900.

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General History

General I, 370–900.

General II, 1000-1300.
General III, 1400–1650.
General IV, 1815–1914.

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Optional Subjects

1. Theories of the State (Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx).
2. The Age of Bede c.660–c.740.
3. Early Gothic France c.1100–c.1150.
4. Conquest and Frontiers: England and Celtic Peoples, 1150–1220.
5. English Chivalry and the French War c.1330–c.1400.

6. Crime and Punishment in England c.1280-c.1400.
7. Nature and Art in the Renaissance.

8. Witch-craft and Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe

9. Nobility and Gentry in England 1560–1660.
10. Conquest and Colonization: Spain and America in the Sixteenth Century.
11. Revolution and Empire in France 1789–1815.
12. Women, Gender and the Nation: Britain, 1789-1825.

13. The Romance of the People: The Folk Revival from 1760 to 1914

14. The American Empire, 1823–1904.
15.  The Rise and Crises of European Socialisms: 1881-1921

16. Working-class Life and Industrial Work, c. 1870–1914.
17. The World of Homer and Hesiod, as specified for the Preliminary Examination in Ancient and Modern History.
18. Augustan Rome, as specified for the Preliminary Examination in Ancient and Modern History.
19. Industrialization in Britain and France 1750–1870 (as specified for the Preliminary in Modern History and Economics: available only to candidates in this school)

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Paper 4

Approaches to History.

Historiography.

Quantification.

Foreign Texts:
Herodotus
Einhard and Asser
Tocqueville.

Friedrich Meinecke and Eckart Kehr.
Machiavelli.
Juan Díaz del Moral.

Leon Trotsky.

 

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Final Honour School

History of the British Isles

British I, c.300-1087.
British II, 1042–1330.
British III, 1330–1550.
British IV, 1500–1700.
British V, 1685–1830.
British VI, 1815–1914.
British VII. Since 1900.

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General History

General I, 285–476.
General II, 476–750.
General III, 700-900
General IV, 900–1122.
General V, 1122–1273.
General VI, 1273–1409.
General VII, 1409–1525.

General VIII, 1517-1618.

General IX, 1618-1715.
General X, 1715–1799.
General XI, 1799–1856.
General XII, 1856–1914.
General XIII, 1914–1945.
General XIV, 1941–1973.
General XV, Britain's, North American Colonies from Settlement to Independence, 1600–1815.

General XVI, from Colonies to Nation: The History of the United States, 1776-1877.

General XVII, The History of the United States since 1863.
General XVIII, Imperial and Global History 1750-1914.

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Further Subjects

1. Anglo-Saxon Archaeology of the Early Christian Period.
2. The Near East in the Age of Justinian and Muhammad 527–c.700.
3. The Carolingian Renaissance (suspended for 2008-9)
4. The Viking Age: War and Peace c.750–1100

5. The Crusades.
6. Culture and Society in Early Renaissance Italy 1290–1348.
7. Flanders and Italy in the Quattrocento, 1420–1480.
8. The Wars of the Roses, 1450–1500
9. Women, Gender and Print Culture in Reformation England, c. 1530-1640

10. Literature and Politics in Early Modern England.
11. English Society in the Seventeenth Century.
12. Society and Government in France 1610–1715.

13. Court, Culture and Art in Early Modern Europe, 1580-1700.

14. The Metropolitan Crucible: London, 1685-1815
15. The First Industrial Revolution, 1700–1870

16. Medicine, Empire and Improvement, 1720-1820.
17. The Age of Jefferson, 1774-1826

18. Culture and Society in France from Voltaire to Balzac.
19. Nationalism in Western Europe, c. 1799–1890
20. Intellect and Culture in Victorian Britain.

21. The Authority of Nature: Race, Heredity and Crime 1800-1940
22. Imperialism and Nationalism 1830–1980

(a) South Asia, 1885-1947.

(b) Sub-Saharan Africa c. 1870-1980

(c) Britain's Settler Colonies, 1830-1939

(d) Maritime South-East Asia: Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, 1830–1966

(e) Themes in the History of Slavery and Abolition

23. Modern Japan, 1868-1972.
24 British Economic History since 1870 (as prescribed for the Honour School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics).

25. Revolutionary Mexico 1910-1940.

26. Nationalism, Politics and Culture in Ireland, c.1870-1921.
27. A Comparative History of the First World War, 1914–1920.
28. China in War and Revolution, 1890–1949.
29. The Soviet Union, 1924–1941.
30. Culture, Politics and Identity in Cold War Europe, 1945–1968.
31. Scholasticism and Humanism.

32. The Science of Society 1650-1800.

33. Political Theory and Social Science.

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Special Subjects

1. St Augustine and the Last Days of Rome, 370-430.

2. Francia in the Age of Clovis and Gregory of Tours.
3. Byzantium in the Age of Constantine Porphyrogenitus 913–959.

4. The Norman Conquest of England.
5. Royal Art and Architecture in Norman Sicily, 1130-1194

6. Saint Francis and Saint Clare.
7. England in Crisis 1374-1390.

8. Joan of Arc and her Age, c. 1419-1435.

9.  Painting and Culture in Ming China
10. Politics, Art and Culture in the Italian Renaissance: Venice and Florence, c. 1425–1575

11. Luther and the German Reformation

12. Government, Politic, and Society in England 1547-1558.
13. The Scientific Movement in the Seventeenth Century.
14. Commonwealth and Protectorate 1647–1658.
15. English Architecture, 1660-1720.

16. Debating Social Change in Britain and Ireland, 1770-1825.
17. Church, State, and English Society 1829–1854.
18. Growing Up in the Middle Class Family: Britain, 1830-70

19.Slavery and the Crisis of the Union, 1854-1865.
20. Political Pressures and Social Policy 1899–1914.
21. Art and its Public in France, 1815–67
22. The Russian Revolution of 1917.

23. India, 1919-1939: Contesting the Nation.

24. The Sex Age: Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1920s Britain

25. The Great Society Era, 1960–70.

26. Nazi Germany: a Racial Order.

27. France from the Popular Front to the Liberation,1936-1944.
28. War and Reconstruction: ideas, politics and social change 1939–45.

29. The Northern Ireland Troubles, 1965-1985.

30. The Evolution of a Modern Metropolis: London, 1955-1975.

 

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Disciplines of History

Disciplines of History

Sources for Theses

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University of Oxford

Faculty of History

Last updated: January 26, 2012