They therefore have a vested interest in getting the right people, and try to draw on as many sources of information to get it right. Although your College tutors may teach you a high proportion of the outline papers, you are likely to be sent out to the appropriate experts for more specialist options, especially in the second and third years. The system combines close supervision by College tutors with an interest in your intellectual development with the flexibility which makes available the extraordinary range of historical talent spread through the University. Colleges all have libraries which supplement the Faculty and Bodleian. Computing facilities are also provided by Colleges.
Colleges often run History societies for their students.
Many have travel grants and prizes. Oxford historians undoubtedly work hard, writing at least one essay a week throughout their course. You would be expected to attend about five lectures per week during the first year, in addition to the regular meetings with tutors to discuss work. But you are very much in charge of your own timetable which means that if you are well organised you can easily fit in all the other activities for which Oxford historians are renowned. Tutorials are meetings of usually two or three students with a tutor to discuss historical problems.