This site is designed for school and college students and for teachers.
For Students
If you are a school or college student studying History, or thinking about studying History, this website provides you with two things:
Information, material and attainment-building exercises relating both to areas of history that are commonly studied by UK students in Years 12 and 13 and to other areas of history less often studied;
An overview of the undergraduate History course at Cambridge University and advice on applying to study with us; this includes details of the course, profiles of lecturers and students, sample lectures, careers information and a film of an admissions interview.
History is one of the most popular degree subjects in the UK and with good reason. Students find studying it enormously interesting and rewarding, and the skills it develops are greatly sought after by top employers in many fields. Cambridge is one of the world’s great History faculties and it is hugely important to us to encourage all very bright potential historians to consider studying with us.
You are our future.
For Teachers
Colleagues, we very much hope that you and your students will find the information and material provided useful. We have thought hard and consulted widely about what is included in this website. If you have suggestions as to how we might develop the site, please e-mail schoolsliaisonoffice@hist.cam.ac.uk.
We would be delighted both to hear from you and to see you and your students here on University open days.
You are crucial in providing universities with the next generation of historians, and our dialogue with you is very important to us.
AcknowledgementsA number of people have helped with the production of this site and I would like to take the opportunity to thank them here.
NM Consulting created and programmed the site for us with the help of
Salad Creative, whilst technical support was provided by the Faculty of History
Computer Office. Drs Barbara Hibbert and Sean Lang helped produce the virtual classroom primary and secondary source exercises for us, while Dr Linda Washington wrote the information about the Seeley Library. Various members of the History Faculty - academics and students - also contributed to the content. Particular thanks are due to Mr Richard Partington (Churchill College), who helped to edit and write much of the text; Dr Melissa Lane who, as Academic Secretary, provided valuable help throughout the project; Professors Osborne and Riley-Smith, and Drs Watkins, Fletcher, Rex, Laven, Smith, Ramos, Biagini, Delap and Carroll, who contributed source exercises and material; and Drs Tooze, Lawrence, Preston and Watkins, whose lectures were filmed in summer 2008.
Dr Caroline Burt, Murray Edwards College, Project Leader
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