Faculty of History, University of Cambridge


The Faculty of History is one of the constituent departments of the University of Cambridge. Teaching and research of history has centuries old roots at Cambridge and the first Regius Professorship of Modern History was established by King George I in 1724. The History Faculty is one of the largest history departments in the world with well over a hundred faculty members. Each academic year a new intake more than two hundred undergraduates is admitted and the Faculty also has more than 450 graduate students studying for masters degrees and the PhD.
The Faculty is divided into eight subject groups : American History; Ancient and Medieval History; Early Modern History; Economic, Social and Cultural History; Modern British History; Modern European History; Political Thought And Intellectual History; and World History.
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Courses offered

At undergraduate level, the faculty offers three courses that result in a Bachelor of Arts degree. These are the Historical Tripos, the History and Politics Tripos, and the History and Modern Languages Tripos.
At postgraduate level, the faculty offers three types of degrees: Master of Philosophy, Master of Studies, and Doctor of Philosophy. The MPhils are 9 month to one year courses, consisting of taught courses and a research dissertation; there are eight MPhils, one for each of the eight subject groups. The MSt is a two year part-time course, consisting of taught modules and a research dissertation: it is jointly taught by the Faculty Of History and the Institute of Continuing Education. The PhD is a research course, taking 3-4 years full-time and 5-7 years part-time, and resulting in a doctoral thesis of 80,000 words.

Notable academics

There are a number of professorships, including endowed chairs, within the department:
This list is not exhaustive, and does not include the countless professional historians who have emerged from Cambridge's History Faculty

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