The Special Subject is chosen on an intercollegiate basis and uses specialised printed sources, often with considerable scope for independent research. Great emphasis is placed upon your capacity for independent work in libraries. Although you will write weekly essays in all three years of study, weekly attendance at lectures and supervisions will rarely exceed five hours. See the corresponding programme entry for information on the second subject. Selection procedure Between December and April the Department conducts interviews in which it looks in particular for the ability to discuss historical interests in an intelligent and thoughtful manner.
Interviews are normally with two staff members.
Roughly ten per cent of our intake are mature students, some from Access courses, while a further ten per cent are from abroad. The Department can be visited by prior arrangement with the Departmental Administrator. Courses available See the list of courses . Some of our recent graduates have gone on to postgraduate study and research and have entered teaching, in schools or higher education. Others have begun legal or accountancy careers, joined City finance houses and advertising firms, or taken commissions in the armed services.