В . SCHOOL OF HISTORY

1. The Course for the Degree with Honours in the School of History com- prises the following subjects:

British History Ancient History Part I

General History Part I General History Part II General History Part III

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Ancient History Part II General History Part IV Theory and Method of History.

Candidates for the Degree with Honours must also take four additional subjects, including Part I or IA of a foreign language, and an approved major selected from subjects of the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Ordinary Degree.

Noтx. (a) Except with the permission of the Faculty, no candidate for Honours in School B may sit for examination without completing the essay work prescribed and attending tutorial classes in the subjects of the School.

(b) The following combinations of subjects have been approved as majors for this course:

(i) A major in a language other than English. Students who choose a language major may take any other Grade I subject as the fourth additional subject.

(ii) English Parts I, II and III.

(iii) Fine Arts A, B and C.

(iv) Political Science A, B and C or Political Science A and B, and either Political Philosophy or International Relations.

(v) Economics A, Economics B, Economics C or Public Finance or Trade and Development.

(vi) Economic Geography Part I, Economics A, and one of Economic Geography Part II, Economic History Part II and Economics B.

(vii) Geology Part I, Geography, Economic Geography Part II.

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(viii) Philosophy Part I and two of Logic, Political Philosophy, Ethics, History of Philosophy and Problems of Philosophy.

(ix) Philosophy Part I, History and Philosophy of Science A and Logic.

(x) Psychology Parts I and II. The third part of the Psychology major will be decided by consultation between the candidate and respective Heads of Departments.

(xi) Pure Mathematics Part I, Logic and Theory of Statistics Part I.

(xii) Music A, B and C. .

Although the supporting subjects are normally required to form one of these majors, the Professor in charge of the Department of History may permit a student

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transfer at the end of his first year from one of the above groups of subjects to another group, completing the required three subjects with a sub-major. Such permission will not be given as a matter of course.

2. These subjects must be taken in the following order, unless, because of special circumstances, the Faculty allows the order to be varied:

First Year: (a) British History (Ions.).

(b) Ancient History Part I (Ions.).

(c) The first part of an approved major (Pass).

(d) Part I or IA of a language other than English.

Second Year: (a) General History Part I.

(b) Either General History Part II or Ancient History Part II.

(c) The second part of an approved major (Pass).

Third Year: (a) Either General History Part II or Ancient History Part II or General History Part III.

(b) The third part of an approved major (Pass).

Fourth Year: (a) Theory ai.d Method of History.

(b) General History Part IV.

Comments:

(a) Students who have completed the First Year must be approved by the Faculty of Arts as candidates for the Degree with Honours before entering the Second Year of the Honour School. The Department of History will normally recommend such approval for candidates who have gained First or Second Class Honours in British History and Ancient History Part I. Candidates who have failed to gain First or Second Class Honours in these subjects, but who wish to continue in the Honour School, should interview the Professor in charge, who will be guided in his recommendation by the merits of the case. Such students, if allowed to continue in the Honour School, may be required to take special papers during their Second Year in British History and Ancient History Part I.

A student who has not attempted Honours in these subjects but who, at the end of the First Year, wishes to enter the Honour School, must make special application to the Faculty through the Sub-Dean for permission to do so. If such permission is granted, the Faculty will prescribe what further work must be com- pleted before the student is allowed to proceed to the Final Examinations.

(b) Students may also be advised to attend other lecture courses which are regarded as relevant to their work.

Where the Head of a Language Department approves, some variation of the reading generally prescribed in that language may be made to suit the needs or interests of students of History.

(c) The Second and Third Years of the Honour course are regarded as form..

ing a continuous whole. Candidates who, during their Second Year, have made satisfactory progress in the History subjects of this year,

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be admitted to the Third Year of the School without formal examination in these subjects. Can- didates whose progress in these subjects during the first two terms is not for this purpose considered satisfactory will be notified at the end of the second term that they must sit for an Annual Examination at the end of the Second Year.

(d) Students may not take the Australian History alternative

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History Part III or IV without having previously taken General History Part II.

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(This restriction does not apply to students who in 1958 are in the Third or Fourth year of the Honour course.) .

(e) The Final Examination is divided into two parts.

Part I is taken at the end of the Third Year and counts equally with Part II towards the final result. Part I consists of one 3-hour paper in each of the follow- ing : a General Paper (see details of Theory and Method of History), General History Part I and twa of Ancient History Part II, General History Part I1 and General History Part III. Part !I of the Final Examination is taken at the end of the Fourth Year and consists of one 3-hour paper in each of Theory and Method of History and General History Part IV, together with an essay of not more than 9,000 words on an approved subject. The essay must be handed in not later than the first day of the second tern of the Fourth Year. Students will be required to consult about subjects for the essay during the Third Year at times which will be announced; and work on the essay is expected to be begun during the long vacation. Members of staff will not be available for consultation about the essay during the examination period in November and December, nor in January unless they individually indicate otherwise.

Students who have satisfied the examiners in Part 1 of the Final Examination and who are unable to proceed to the Fourth Year may, with the approval of the Faculty, be admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (Ordinary Degree).

(f) The following course has been approved for students who intend to combine the School of History with a Law course :

First Year: British History (Ions.). .

Ancient History Part I (Ions.).

Introduction to Legal Method.

Part I of a foreign language or Language Study (see p.

138, Note 2).

Sećond Year: General History Part I General History Part II Legal History.

Criminal Law and Procedure.

Third Year: General History Part III Tort.

Principles of Contract.

Fourth Year: General History Part IV

Theory and Method of History .

Principles of Property Fifth Year: As for Third Year Law.

Sixth Year: As for Fourth Year Law.

BRITISH HISTORY

A course of lectures as for the Ordinary Degree, together with one additional lecture per week during two terms of the Academic Year.

SYLLABUS. As for British History in the Ordinary Degree, together with special study of the period of the Civil War and of the prescribed texts below.

Bоoкs. As for the Ordinary Degree, together with the following : (a) Prescribed text-books :

Milton, J—Areopagitigia. (World's Classics or Everyman.)

Bunyan, J.—Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. (Everyman.) Bacon, F. Essays. (Everyman.)

Clarendon, Earl of—Selections from the History of the Rebellion. _(World's Classics.)

Woodhouse, A. S. P. Puritanism and Liberty. (Macmillan.) The Centuries' Poetry—Donne to Dryden. (Penguin.)

Yule, G. The Independents in the English Civil War. _(M.U.P.) (b) Additional reading:

Newcastle, Duchess of—Life of the Duke of Newcastle. (Everyman.) Hutchinson, L.--Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson. (Everyman.) Baxter, R. _Autobiography. (Everyman.)

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Aubrey, J. Brief Lives. (Cresset Press.)

Fitzpatrick, K.—The Puritans and the Theatre. (Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand, February, 1949.)

Bush, D. English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century. (O.U.Р.) Wedgwood, C. V.—Seventeenth Century English Literature. (H.U.L.) Hill, C. Economic Problems of the Church. (O.U.P.)

ExASINATIox. One 3-hour paper in addition to the paper or papers for the Ordinary Degree.

ANCIENT HISTORY PART I

A course of lectures and tutorials as for the Ordinary Degree, together with one additional lecture per week, throughout the year.

SYLLABUS. As for the Ordinary Degree, together with a study of Athenian Imperialism in the fifth century B.C., with special reference to the relationship between democracy and imperialism in Athens.

BooKs. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

Burn, A. R.—Pericles and Athens. (Teach Yourself History.) Bury, J. B. History of Greece, chs. VIII-XI. (Macmillan.)

(b) Prescribed text-books:

*Thucydides—History. (Everyman.)

*Plutarch—Lives. 3 vols. (Everyman.).

(c) Recommended for reference:

Grundy, G. B Thucydides and the History of his Age. (Murray.) Gomme, A. W.—Commentary on Thucydides, vols. I and II. (Clarendon.) Cornford, F. M.—Thucydides Mythistoricus. (Arnold.)

Cambridge Ancient History, vol. V. (С.U.P.)

Botsford, G. W., and Sihler, E. G. Hellenic Civilization. (Columbia Univ.

Press.)

Freeman, Kathleen—Greek City States. (Macdonald.)

Hignett, C. History of the Athenian. Constitution. (Clarendon.) Murray, G.—Aristophanes. (Clarendon.)

Thomson, G. Aeschylus and Athens. (Lawrence and Wishart.)

Meiggs, R.--The Growth of Athenian Imperialism. (J. of Hellenic Studs., 1943.)

Hopper, R. J. Interstate Juridicial Agreements in the Athenian Empire. (J. of Hellenic Studs., 1943.)

Jones, A. H. M.-The Economic Basis of the Athenian Democracy. (Past and Present, 1952.)

Jones, A. H. M.-The Athenian Democracy and its Critics. (Camb. Hist. J., 1953.)

de Ste. Croix, G. E. M.—The Character of the Athenian Empire.

Meritt, B. D., Wade-Gery, H. T., and McGregor, M. F.—The Athenian Tribute Lists. (Amer. School at Athens.)

EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper in addition to the paper or papers for the Ordinary Degree.

ANCIENT HISTORY PART II

A course of tutorials and essay work, throughout the year, together with occasional lectures, amounting to about two hours per week.

SУLLAВUs. Anglo-Saxon England.

Boons. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

Richmond, I.—Roman Britain. (Pelican.)

Whitelock, Dorothy—The Beginnings of English Society. (Pelican.) Stentоп, Doris M. English Society in the Early Middle Ages. (Pelican.)

(b) Prescribed text-books i

*Whitelock, Dorothy—English Historical Documents, vol. I. (O.U.P.) This is a very expensive book. A reasonably adequate substitute would be provided by the three following:

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. (Everyman.) 146

Anglo-Saxon Poetry. (Everyman.) . Bede—Ecclesiastical History. (Everyman.)

(c) Recommended for reference:

Blair, P. Hunter—An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England.

(C.U.P.)

Collingwood, R. G., and Myers, J. N.

L.—Roman

Britain and the English

Settlements. (Oxford History of England, vol. I, O.U.P.)

Stenton, Sir Frank—Anglo-Saxon England. (Oxford History of England, vol. II, O.U.P.)

Hodgkin, R. H. History of the Anglo-Saxons. (3rd ed., 2 vols., O.U.P.) Further reading in this subject will be suggested as occasion arises.