(i) Statute.

[Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. I. C.]

§ 8.

Of the Honour School of Modern History.

1. The Examination in the School of Modern History shall always include

(1) The continuous History of England;

(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. Every Candidate shall be required to have a knowledge of Constitutional Law, and of Political and Descriptive Geography.

3. A subject or period of Literature may also be added as an optional subject.

4. No Candidate shall be admitted to examination in this School unless he has passed the First Public Examination, or has fulfilled such conditions and has passed such other Examination or Examinations as, under the provisions of Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. I. cl. 3 and cl. 5, are accepted in his case as statutably equivalent thereto, or has obtained Honours in another Final Honour School.

5. The Board of the Faculty of Modern 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 suggest special Historical subjects, or subjects or periods of Literature, prescribing particular authorities where they think it desirable.

6. Candidates proposing to offer a special Historical subject, or any subject or period of Literature included in the list suggested by the Board of the Faculty, shall give notice to the Assistant Registrar not later than the Saturday of the eighth week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the Examination. When such subject is not included in the said list, the Candidate must submit it to the approval of the Board at such time, not being later than the Wednesday of the second week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the Examination, as the Board shall prescribe.

7. Subject to such Regulations as the Board of the Faculty may make from time to time, Candidates shall be allowed, but not required, to present as part of the Examination a thesis on some question within any special subject offered by them in the Examination.

8. Subject to such regulations as the Board of the Faculty may make from time to time, select portions of Law, approved by the Board of the Faculty of Law, may be substituted by Candidates for the special Historical subject required to be offered; provided that no Candidate shall be allowed to offer in the School of Modern History any select portion, whether of Legal or of Historical study, which he has already offered in the School of Jurisprudence.

9. The Examination in the special Historical subject, or in the select portion of Law substituted as above, may be omitted by Candidates who do not aim at a place in the First or Second Class.

10. 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 connexion with Modern History, including translation from foreign languages of passages not specially prepared, and may prescribe books or portions of books in any language.

(ii) Regulations of the Board of the Faculty. The subjects of examination in this School are:

I. For the Examination in 1914-The History of England: A. Continuous Constitutional History.

B. Continuous Political History to 1837.

For the Examinations in 1915 and after

The History of England.

A. Continuous Constitutional History:

(1) A General Paper on Constitutional History;

(2) Alternative papers on Constitutional Documents either up to 1485, or from 1485.

B. Continuous Political History to 1885.

II. A period of General History.

III. Political Science and Political Economy with Economic History. But Candidates who do not aim at a place in the First or Second Class may omit either Political Science, or Political Economy with Economic History.

IV. Every Candidate is required by the Statute to have a knowledge of Constitutional Law and of Political and Descriptive Geography. V. A paper of unprepared translation from French, German, and Italian. All Candidates will be required to satisfy the Examiners in one of these languages, and may offer more than one. Candidates

who fail to satisfy the Examiners in one Language may be refused a place in the Class List.

VI. (In the case of those Candidates who aim at a place in the First or Second Class), a Special Subject carefully studied with reference to original authorities.

HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

A. Constitutional History.

The following books are recommended :

I. Stubbs, Constitutional History; Hallam, Constitutional History; Dicey, Law of the Constitution; Anson, Law and Custom of the Constitution (particularly Vol. I, fourth edition, chapters iv, v, ix, and Vol. II, third edition, chapters ii, v, vii, x).

II. Stubbs, Select Charters; Prothero, Statutes and Constitutional Documents; Gardiner, Select Documents of the Puritan Revolution; Robertson, Select Statutes, Cases, and Documents.1

At the Examination in 1914 candidates will be expected to show knowledge of the text of the main constitutional documents only.

For the Examinations in 1915 and after candidates will be expected to study either Stubbs, Select Charters, excluding Dialogus de Scaccario and Modus tenendi Parliamentum, or the principal Constitutional documents in Prothero, Gardiner, Robertson, and Egerton. By documents' shall be understood Acts of Parliament, judicial decisions, and official State papers.

B. Political History to 1885.

No books are suggested, but Candidates will be expected to show an adequate knowledge of the Social as well as the Political History, and also of the Geography necessary for understanding it. This head of examination must be taken to include the History of Scotland from 1603, that of Ireland from the reign of Henry II, and also the History of the English Colonies and Dependencies.

GENERAL HISTORY. One of the following periods:

1. 285-604.

2. 476-919.
3. 919-1273.

4. 1273-1519.

5. 1414-1598.

6. 1559-1715.

7. 1715-1815.
8. 1789-1878.

In studying the selected periods of General History, Candidates will be expected to make themselves acquainted with the Social and Literary History of their period, and also with the Geography necessary for understanding it.

The following books are recommended by the Board, not as compulsory subjects of examination, but for the purpose of indicating sources of information which will be found useful for the course of study required for the Examination in this School :

Goyau: Chronologie de l'Empire romain.

Schiller: Geschichte der römi

PERIOD I.
285-604.

Gibbon : Decline and Fall

(Bury's edition).

Duruy Histoire de Rome.

Ranke: Weltgeschichte.

Seeck: Geschichte des Unter

schen Kaiserzeit.

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Lavisse et Rambaud: Histoire

générale.

Egerton, Federations and Unions in the British Empire, will be added to this.

ist for the Examination in 1915.