Overview

The History (Intellectual History) programme offered by University of Oxford has a sustained period devoted to archival research and writing, and is designed to give you a thorough training in historical research, improve your ability to conceptualise and engage with historical problems, and enlarge your understanding of the historical and historiographical context in which your own research is set. All strands of the MPhil can serve as either free-standing graduate qualifications, or as a springboard to doctoral study. Students wishing to proceed to doctoral study will be encouraged to develop their doctoral proposals during the first few months of the second year. Skills training and option-choice are flexible and open-ended, to allow you to gain the knowledge and training needed to complete your research project.

Key Facts

You will have the opportunity to study thinkers and ideas from the fourth to the twenty-first centuries, in diverse transnational geographical contexts. The course is designed to encourage you to work in and between areas such as Global Intellectual History, the History of Scholarship, the History of Science, the History of Art, Historiography and the History of Political Ideas.Oxford is home to one of the largest communities of intellectual historians in the world, with expertise in every major area of Intellectual History, supported by world-class resources. Further information about Intellectual History research and activities can be found through the faculty website.

Programme Structure

Courses Include:

The Twelfth-Century Renaissance
The dawn of the Global World, 1450-1800: Ideas, Objects, Connections
Creating the Commonwealth: Politics and Religion in Grotius, Hobbes and Locke
The Enlightenment, c. 1680-1800: Ideas and the public sphere
Modern political and social theory, c.1790-1930
The British Marxist historians: Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton, Eric Hobsbawm and Edward Thompson

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Duration

Full-time
- 21 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-10-10 00:00:00

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Language

English

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110

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Oxford, United Kingdom

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

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General requirements

An undergraduate degree with a minimum of 68% overall (equivalent to a high upper second class degree) and 68% for the dissertation, in a relevant discipline in the humanities or social sciences.
For applicants with a bachelor's degree from the USA, the minimum overall GPA that is normally required to meet the undergraduate-level requirement is 3.6 out of 4.0. However, successful candidates normally have a GPA of 3.75 or higher.

You must have experience of working on a historical subject at undergraduate level, but are not required to have a single honours/major degree in history.
No Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or GMAT scores are sought.

Tuition Fees

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43730 GBP / year

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17910 GBP / year

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Oxford

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939 - 1530 GBP / month

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