CONTENTS Page Format of the Handbook 2 1. Examination Regulations 3 2. Introduction to the Final Honour School of History 13 3. Plagiarism 27 4. History of the British Isles 31 5. General History 43 6. Further Subjects 66 7. Special Subjects 151 8. Disciplines of History 260 9. The Compulsory Thesis 264 10. Criteria for Marking Examination Questions in History 286 11. Conduct of Examinations and Other Matters 288 12. Overlap 289 13. Criteria for Marking Theses and Extended Essays in History 290 14. Examination Conventions, Tariffs and Examiners Reports 293 15 The Joint Schools with History 296 16. Examination of Oxford Students on the Oxford-Princeton Exchange 297 17. Libraries 299 18. The History Faculty 302 19. Guidelines for Students with Disabilities 305 20. Feedback and Complaints Procedures 308 21. Languages for Historians 314 22. Information Technology 316 23. Prizes and Grants 318 24. Appendix: Members of the History Faculty who hold 323 teaching appointments in the University - 1 - Anything printed in bold in this handbook (other than chapter headings) is or has the status of a formal regulation. Ordinary print is used for descriptive and explanatory matter. Italics are used to give warning of particular points of which you should be aware. - 2 - 1. EXAMINATION REGULATIONS HONOUR SCHOOL OF HISTORY A. 1. The examination in the School of History shall be under the supervision of the Board of the Faculty of History, and shall always include: (1) The History of the British Isles (including the History of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; and of British India and of British Colonies and Dependencies as far as they are connected with the History of the British Isles); (2) General History during some period, selected by the candidate from periods to be named from time to time by the Board of the Faculty; (3) A Special Historical subject, carefully studied with reference to original authorities. 2. No candidate shall be admitted to examination in this school unless he or she has either passed or been exempted from the First Public Examination or has successfully completed the Foundation Certificate in History at the Department for Continuing Education. 3. The Board of the Faculty of History shall, by notice from time to time, make regulations respecting the above-named branches of examination, and shall have power (1) To name certain periods of General History, and to fix their limits; (2) To issue lists of Special Historical subjects, prescribing particular authorities where they think it desirable. 4. The examination in the Special Historical subject may be omitted by candidates, but such candidates shall not be placed in the Class List. 5. The Board of the Faculty may include in the examination, either as necessary or as optional, other subjects which they may deem suitable to be studied in connection with History, including translation from foreign languages of passages not specially prepared, and may prescribe books or portions of books in any language. - 3 - B The History Board shall issue annually the Handbook for the Honour School of History by Monday of Week 1 of the first Michaelmas Full Term of candidates’ work for the Honour School. A supplement to the handbook shall be issued to candidates at the beginning of Week 4 of the first Hilary Full Term of their work for the Honour School, and posted in the History Faculty Building and circulated to tutors. All candidates are required to offer Subjects I, II, III, V and VI, below. No candidate may be placed in the Class List unless he or she also offers Special Subject IV, below. Candidates who have taken the Foundation Certificate in History rather than the Preliminary Examination are required to offer at least one paper from either Subject I or Subject II which relates to a period between 285 and 1550 (this may be taken to include Periods (I), (II), or (III) of the History of the British Isles, or Periods (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), or (vii) of General History). Students participating in the academic exchange scheme with Princeton University will substitute the courses taken at Princeton for either a General History or History of the British Isles paper. The Princeton courses will be examined at Princeton, and the grades awarded will be reviewed and moderated by the Examiners to produce a single University standard mark, according to procedures laid down in the Handbook and Examiners conventions. I. History of the British Isles: any one of the following periods: (I) c.300-1087; (II) 1042-1330; (III) 1330-1550; (IV) 1500-1700; (V) 1685-1830; (VI) 1815-1924; (VII) since 1900. No candidate may offer a period offered when passing the First Public Examination. The History of the British Isles is taken to include the history of the Irish Republic in the twentieth century, and of British India and British Colonies and Dependencies as far as they are connected with the History of Britain. - 4 - II. General History: any one of the listed periods: (i) 285-476; (ii) 476-750; (iii) 700-900; (iv) 900-1122; (v) 1122-1273; (vi) 1273-1409; (vii) 1409-1525 (viii) 1500-1618; (ix) 1600-1715; (x) 1715-1799; (xi) 1789-1871; (xii) 1856-1914; (xiii) 1914-1945; (xiv) 1941-1973; (xv) Britain’s North American Colonies: from settlement to independence, 1600-1812; (xvi) From Colonies to Nation: the History of the United States 1776-1877; (xvii) The History of the United States since 1863; (xviii) Imperial and Global History 1750-1914. The four periods of British and General History offered by a candidate in the First Public Examination and the Honour School must include at least one from the following groups: 1. Medieval History (I) c.300-1087; (II) 1042-1330; General History (taken in the First Public Examination): I: 370-900; II: 1000-1300; (taken in the Final Honour School) (i) 285- 476, (ii) 476-750, (iii) 700-900, (iv) 900-1122, (v) 1122-1273, (vi) 1273-1409. 2. Early Modern History (III) 1330-1550; (IV) 1500-1700; General History (taken in the First Public Examination): III: 1400-1650; (taken in the Final Honour School): (vii) 1409- 1525; (viii) 1500-1618; (ix) 1600-1715. 3. Modern History (V) 1685-1830; (VI) 1815-1924; (VII) since 1900; General History (taken in the First Public Examination): IV: 1815-1914; (taken in the Final Honour School): (x) 1715-1799; (xi) 1789-1871; (xii) 1856-1914; (xiii) 1914-1945; (xiv) 1941-1973; (xv) Britain’s North American Colonies: from Settlement to Independence, 1600-1812; (xvi) From Colonies to Nation: the History of the United States 1776-1877; (xvii) The History of the United States since 1863; (xviii) Imperial and Global History 1750-1914. Candidates who participate in the Princeton Exchange are required to offer one period in the History of the British Isles or General History, so chosen that the periods offered in the First Public Examination and the Honour School are taken from at least two out of the three period groups. This requirement shall also apply to candidates who participate in the Princeton Exchange having taken the First Public Examination in a joint school involving History papers. Candidates with Senior Student status, and candidates who have passed the First Public Examination in a course other than History, are required to offer one paper in British History and one in General History, to be taken from two out of the three period groups (1. Medieval History, 2. Early Modern History, 3. Modern History). - 5 - III. Further Subject: any one of an approved list of Further Subjects, as detailed in the Handbook for the Final Honour School in History published by the Board of the Faculty of History by Monday of first Week of Michaelmas Term each year for the academic year ahead. IV. Special Subject, consisting of (a) a paper including compulsory passages for comment; (b) an extended essay. The Special Subjects available in any given year, as approved by the Board of the Faculty of History, will be publicised in the list posted by the Faculty of History in the Hilary Term of the preceding year. Candidates will be examined by means of a timed paper including compulsory passages for comment, and by means of an extended essay, which shall not exceed 6,000 words (including footnotes but excluding bibliography), and shall be on a topic or theme selected by the candidate from a question paper published by the examiners on the Friday of the fourth week of Michaelmas Term in the year of examination. Essays should be typed or word-processed in double spacing and should conform to the standard of academic presentation prescribed in the course handbook. Essays (two copies) shall normally be written during the Michaelmas Term in the year of examination and must be delivered by hand to the Examination Schools (addressed to the Chairman of Examiners, Honour School of History, Examination Schools, Oxford) not later than 12 noon on the Friday before the beginning of Hilary Full Term of the year of examination. Candidates delivering essays will be required to complete a receipt form, which will only be accepted as proof of receipt if it is counter-signed by a member of the Examination Schools staff. Essays (two copies) must be placed in a sealed envelope (bearing only the candidate’s examination number) together with a formal declaration signed by the candidate that the essay is his or her own work. The University’s regulations on Late Submission of Work will apply. Depending on the availability of teaching resources, not all Further and Special Subjects will be available to all candidates in every year. Candidates may obtain details of the choice of options for the following year by consulting lists posted at the beginning of week four of Hilary Full Term in the History Faculty, the History Faculty website and circulated to History Tutors.