( For possible combinations with this school see p. 220.)
Students are advised not to make a final choice of honours subjects in the Second Year of their course without first consulting a member of the staff of the department of History. An appointment should be made at the History office.
1. The course for the degree with honours in the school of History comprises the following subjects:
British History or Modern History A Ancient History part I
General History part I General History part II General History part III 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, in subjects other than those of the department of History, selected from subjects of the degree of bachelor of Arts, ordinary degree.
Note: (a) Except with the permission of the Faculty, no candidate for honours in school B may sit for examination without completing, by the set dates, the essay work prescribed and attending tutorial classes in the subjects of the school.
(b) The professor in charge of the department of History may in special cir- cumstances allow a change at the end of the First Year in the supporting major so that the student completes the requirements with a sub-major in a different field.
Three of
(c) The professor in charge of the department of History may allow a student to take as his four additional subjects two sub-majors in foreign languages approved as relevant to his History 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 (hops) or Modern History A ( hens) . .
b) Ancient History part I (bons).
c) The first part of an approved major ( pass ).
d) Part I or IA of a language other than English.
Second and (a) Three of Ancient History part II, General History part I, Third Years: General History part II and General History part III. Two of these subjects are to be taken in the second year and the remaining subject in the third year. The selection and order of these subjects must be approved by the Professor in charge.
(b) The second and third parts of an approved major to be taken in the second and third years respectively.
Fourth Year. (a) Theory and 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 Ancient. History part I and either British History or Modern History A. 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 recom- mendation 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.
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 completed 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 forming a continuous whole. Candidates who, during their Second Year, have made satisfactory progress in the History subjects of this year, will be admitted to the Third Year of the school without formal examination in these subjects. Candidates whose progress in these subjects during the first two terms is not for this purpose considered satis- factory will be notified during the third term that they must sit for an annual examination at the end of the Second Year. Unsatisfactory attendance at honours tutorial classes will for this purpose be regarded as evidence of unsatisfactory progress.
(d) It should be noted that General History part I may now be taken in the Third Year, and General History part IIIC ( Medieval History) may now be taken in the Second Year. Students who wish to take both subjects will find it a distinct advantage to take General History part IIIC before taking General History part I;
but there is no compulsion to do so with this exception, General History part III must be taken in the Third Year.
(e) Students may not take the Australian History alternative in General History part III or IV without having previously taken General History part II.
(f) The final examination is divided into two parts.
Part I is taken at the end of the Third Year and is counted together with Part II in assessing the final result. In the final assessment, however, weight isgiven to improveent shown during the Fourth Year. Part I consists of papers in each of the m
following: a General Paper (see details of Theory and Method of History, and
three of
Ancient History part II, General History part I, General History part II and Gene- ral History part III. Part II of the final examination is taken at the end of the Fourth Year and consists of papers in each of Тheóry 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 term of the Fourth Year. Students will be required to consult about subjects for the essayduriп the Third Year
at times which will be announced; and work on the essay must 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 I of the final examination and who are unable to proceed to the Fourth Year may, with the a proval of the faculty, be admitted to the degree of bachelor of Arts (ordinary degree).
The following course has been approved for students who intend to combine the school of History with a Law course ( see (d) and (e) above) :
First Year: British History (bons).
Ancient History part I (hons ).
Introduction to Legal Method.
Part I of a foreign language.
Second 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.
58.
ANCIENT HISTORY PART I (lolls)
A course of Iectures 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 demo- cracy and imperialism in Athens.
BOOKS
(a) Prescribed for preliminary reading:
Burn, A.
R.-Pericles and Athens.
(Teach Yourself History.)
Bury, J.B.—History of Greece,
chs. VIII-XI. (Macmillan.)Hammond, N. G. L.—A
History of Greece,
Books ш-iv. (Clarendon.) (b ) Prescribed textbooks:*Thисуdiдеs—Нistо.y. (Everyman.)
*Plutarch—Lives. 3 vols. (Everyman. )
*Неrodotus—History. ( Everyman.)
A useful substitute for the Everyman translations of Herodotus and Thucydides is provided by Godolphin, F. R. B.
(ed.)-The Greek Historians,
vols. I-II. ( Random House, N.Y.) This contains translated texts other than the two historians, which are of value for the course in Ardent History part I, both pass and honours.Further reading will be indicated in the lectures.
EXAMINATION
One 3-hour paper in addition to the paper or papers for the ordinary degree.
59. BRITIŠH HISTORY
(Ions)
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.
BOOKS
As for the ordinary degree, together with the following:
Prescribed textbooks:
Milton,
J —Areoрagit{ca.
(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.) Haller,
W.—The
Rise it Puritanism. ( Harper Torch books. ) Yule,G.-The
Independents in the English Civil War. ( M.U.P.) Further reading will be indicated throughout the year.EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper in addition to the paper for the ordinary degree.
60. MODERN HISTORY A
(Ions)
A course of lectures as for the ordinary degree, together with additional lectures, probably one per week during two terms of the academic year.
SYLLABUS
As for Modern History A in the ordinary degree, together with a special study of a phase of European colonial expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
In 1963 the special study will be the making of the Spanish overseas empire to about 1600.
BOOKS
As for the ordinary degree, together with the following:
.
(a) Prescribed textbooks:
*Vaillant, G. C.—The Aztecs of Mexico. (Penguin.)
*Diaz, del Castillo, Bernal—The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1517-1521..
( Grove Press, Evergreen Books. )
*Prescott, W.
H.—The
Conquest of Mexico and The Conquest ofPeri'
both in one volume. ( Random House, The Modern Library.)*Haring, C. H.—The Spanish Empire in America. (New York, Oxford University Press.)
(b) Additional references will be given during the course.
EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper in addition to the paper for the ordinary degree.
111. ANCIENT HISTORY PART II
(Ions)
A course of tutorials and essay work, throughout the year, together with occasional lectures, amounting to about two hours per week.
SYLLABUS
Anglo-Saxon England.
BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Richmond, I.—Roman Britain. (Pelican.)
Whitelock, Dorothy—The Beginnings of English Society. (Pelican.) Stenton, Doris
M. English
Society in the Early Middle Ages. (Pelican.) Wilson, D. 1.—The Anglo-Saxons. (Thames & Hudson.)109
FACULTY OF ARTS HANDBOOK ( b ) Prescribed textbooks:
•Whitelock, Dorothy—English Historical Documents,
vol.
L (О.U.P.)This is a very expensive book. A reasonably adequate substitute would be provided by the three following:
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. ( Everyman. ) Anglo-Saxon Poetry. (Everyman.) Bede—Ecclesiastical History. (Everyman.) (c) Recommended for reference:
Blair, P. Hunter—An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Engknd. (C.U.P.)
Collingwood, R. G., and Myers, J. N. L.—Roman Britain and the English Settle-
meпΡts. (Oxford History of England, vol. I, O.U.P.)
Stenton, Sir Frank—Anglo-Saxon England. (Oxford History of England, vol. II, O.U.Р.)
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.