概要
History and Politics at Cambridge is a three-year BA (Hons) joint degree (UCAS VL12) for applicants who want to connect historical evidence with political explanation. The typical offer is A*AA, with History required at A level/IB HL or equivalent; Part IA combines a History Outline paper, two Politics papers and Evidence and Argument.
なぜCambridgeでHistory and Politicsを?
Choose this course if you want a degree where historical argument and political analysis are tested together, rather than studied as two unrelated halves. Cambridge’s structure makes that integration visible from Part IA: students combine a History Outline paper with The Modern State and its Alternatives, International Conflict, Order and Justice, and Evidence and Argument.
Section 01
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Section 02
| Qualification | Typical Offer | Key Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| A-Level | A*AA | History, Politics, English Literature recommended. |
| IB Diploma | 40–42 with 776 at HL | |
| Advanced Placement (AP) | Minimum five AP Tests at score 5 in subjects relevant to the course, plus strong SAT or ACT results and high High School Diploma performance. |
Section 03
Jun–Jul 2026
Open days & shortlist colleges
Visit Cambridge in person if you can. Open days run in late June and early July. Begin narrowing your college list and reading first-year reading lists.
Sep 2026
Draft your personal statement
Write for the subject, not the institution. Cambridge admissions tutors look for ~80% academic content and genuine super-curricular engagement.
28 Sep 2026
ESAT / TMUA registration deadline
Pre-registration via the Pearson VUE admissions testing portal closes at 18:00 UK time. Late entry is not normally possible.
15 Oct 2026
UCAS deadline
Submit your UCAS application by 18:00 UK time on 15 October 2026.
12–16 Oct 2026
Sit ESAT / TMUA
ESAT and TMUA are sat in this window at Pearson VUE centres. LNAT and UCAT use their own test windows — check each test's site for booking dates.
22 Oct 2026
My Cambridge Application deadline
Complete the My Cambridge Application supplementary questionnaire by 18:00 UK time on 22 October 2026. This replaced the old SAQ.
10 Nov 2026
Submitted written work deadline
Most arts and humanities courses ask for one or two pieces of marked school work. Each college confirms its exact deadline; 10 November is the standard date.
Dec 2026
Interviews
Around three-quarters of applicants are interviewed. Typically 1–2 interviews of 25–45 minutes each at your chosen or allocated college.
27 Jan 2027
Main decisions released
Cambridge releases its main decisions on 27 January 2027. Around a quarter of offers are made through the Winter Pool — strong applicants reconsidered by colleges with remaining places.
Jun–Jul 2026
Open days & shortlist colleges
Visit Cambridge in person if you can. Open days run in late June and early July. Begin narrowing your college list and reading first-year reading lists.
Sep 2026
Draft your personal statement
Write for the subject, not the institution. Cambridge admissions tutors look for ~80% academic content and genuine super-curricular engagement.
28 Sep 2026
ESAT / TMUA registration deadline
Pre-registration via the Pearson VUE admissions testing portal closes at 18:00 UK time. Late entry is not normally possible.
15 Oct 2026
UCAS deadline
Submit your UCAS application by 18:00 UK time on 15 October 2026.
12–16 Oct 2026
Sit ESAT / TMUA
ESAT and TMUA are sat in this window at Pearson VUE centres. LNAT and UCAT use their own test windows — check each test's site for booking dates.
22 Oct 2026
My Cambridge Application deadline
Complete the My Cambridge Application supplementary questionnaire by 18:00 UK time on 22 October 2026. This replaced the old SAQ.
10 Nov 2026
Submitted written work deadline
Most arts and humanities courses ask for one or two pieces of marked school work. Each college confirms its exact deadline; 10 November is the standard date.
Dec 2026
Interviews
Around three-quarters of applicants are interviewed. Typically 1–2 interviews of 25–45 minutes each at your chosen or allocated college.
27 Jan 2027
Main decisions released
Cambridge releases its main decisions on 27 January 2027. Around a quarter of offers are made through the Winter Pool — strong applicants reconsidered by colleges with remaining places.
Section 04
History and Politics（University of Cambridge）の2027年度入試では、出願者に書面の入試テストは課されません。出願は推薦書・成績・パーソナルステートメント・提出物・面接で評価されます。
Always verify on the official Oxford admissions tests page.
Section 05
Interview Invitation
Late Nov
Arrival to Interview
Early Dec
Technical Question
Mid Dec
Decision
Early Jan
Interview Invitation
Late Nov
Arrival to Interview
Early Dec
Technical Question
Mid Dec
Decision
Early Jan
Question Types You’ll See
Cambridge History and Politics interviews are designed to test understanding of the subject area, readiness for high-level study, critical and independent thinking, curiosity, motivation, and the ability to apply existing knowledge to unfamiliar material.
Typical discussion may involve a historical argument, a source or interpretation, a political concept applied to a new case, comparisons between historical developments and contemporary politics, or follow-up questions from schoolwork, written work or the personal statement.
The main 2027-entry interview period is 7–18 December 2026, with Winter Pool interviews around mid to late January 2027. Practise aloud with unfamiliar material: a strong answer usually shows how you test a claim, not just what conclusion you reach.
無料のHistory and Politics面接練習問題バンクで本番さながらの問題を練習しましょう。
無料練習問題 →
Section 06
Cambridge Colleges assess History and Politics applications holistically rather than by a published score formula. The strongest evidence usually comes from recent academic performance, interview, and required written work, supported by the personal statement, reference, contextual information and any College-arranged assessment where applicable.
The decision visual uses editorial weights for academic record, interview performance, submitted written work, personal statement and reference, College-arranged assessment where applicable, and contextual data. Cambridge does not publish numerical weightings — any percentage shown elsewhere is illustrative only.
In reality, selectors are looking for convergence. It helps when your written work, interview discussion, school evidence and reading all point to the same underlying qualities: accuracy, independence, intellectual flexibility and sustained interest.
Our recommendation · weighting of admission factors
Oxbridge Mentors recommendation, drawn from observed offer patterns. University of Cambridge does not publish official weightings — exact balance varies by college, course and year.
Section 07
A strong History and Politics personal statement should not read like a list of books. Choose 2 or 3 problems you have genuinely thought about, then show how your view changed as you encountered evidence, disagreement or a better argument.
For this course, the strongest examples often sit at the join between the two disciplines. A paragraph on revolution, nationalism, political legitimacy, empire, war, state formation or democracy should show both historical specificity and political judgement.
Avoid writing that you have “always loved history” or that politics is “important today”. It is better to take one precise claim, explain why it matters, then show what you read, what you questioned and where your thinking ended up.
Because the course requires 2 pieces of written work, your personal statement should not overclaim expertise in areas you would struggle to discuss under questioning. Be ready to talk about every named book, event, thinker and case study.
専門家による一行一行の解説付き完全例文を見る。
History and Politics PS例文 →Section 08
A good project gives you something to argue about, not just something to describe. Choose a question narrow enough to test with evidence and broad enough to connect history with politics.
Use projects to practise the discipline Cambridge interviews reward: defining terms, separating evidence from inference, and revising your view when a counterexample appears.
Section 08
Other supercurriculars work best when they deepen a line of thought already visible in your written work or personal statement. They should support an academic argument, not replace one.
These are support, not substitute.
Primary-source reading:
Work with speeches, pamphlets, manifestos, parliamentary debates, memoirs or newspaper archives; annotate what the source can and cannot prove.
Historiography comparison:
Read two historians who disagree on the same event and write a short evaluation of method, evidence and interpretation.
Political theory reading:
Read short extracts from thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, Arendt or Fanon and link their claims to a concrete historical case.
Data-aware politics:
Use public election, polling or demographic data to test a small political claim, while being explicit about limitations and causal uncertainty.
Museums, archives and lectures:
Attend public lectures, exhibitions or archive sessions and follow up with targeted reading rather than listing attendance as an achievement.
Structured debate or essay practice:
Practise defending and revising an argument under questioning, because Cambridge interviews look for flexible reasoning rather than rehearsed certainty.
Section 08
Competitions are not required. What they do well is stretch your ability to frame a question, build an argument and handle disagreement under constraints.
None are required; one or two done well beats five half-attempted.
Section 09
Year
01 / 03
1
Foundations in history, politics and evidence
Students take four papers that establish the shared foundations of the degree. The year combines one broad History Outline paper, two Politics papers, and a distinctive interdisciplinary Evidence and Argument paper.
Year
02 / 03
2
Breadth, methods and a long essay
Students take one paper from each of four categories, increasing the range of politics, political thought and historical study. The long essay of up to 5,000 words introduces a more independent research task across History and Politics.
Year
03 / 03
3
Advanced options and dissertation choice
Students choose three advanced papers from combinations of Politics and International Relations papers shared with HSPS and History Special Subjects or Advanced Topic papers. They also take Theory and Practice in History and Politics, and may replace one paper with a 10,000-word dissertation.
Section 10
History and Politics applicants need to submit 2 pieces of written work. The College tells applicants what to submit and by when, and the deadline is College-specific.
Choose pieces you can explain, defend and improve, rather than simply choosing the pieces with the highest marks.
Section 11
Start with method. What is History? is useful for evidence, causation and the historian’s role, while The History Manifesto pushes you to think about long-term historical argument and public relevance. For Cambridge, that matters because Part IA’s Evidence and Argument paper asks students to think carefully about how evidence, method and public claims shape historical and political reasoning.
Then build the politics side. The Origins of Totalitarianism connects modern history, political violence, ideology and state power, while Why Nations Fail is useful for testing institutional explanations of political and economic development.
For nationalism and political identity, Imagined Communities gives you a clear route into how political communities are historically constructed. It pairs well with Nationalism, self-determination and secession, a concise OpenLearn course linking political ideas to historical case studies.
Use lectures to practise note-taking and follow-up questions. The American Revolution combines political thought, institutions, conflict and historical evidence, while Introduction to Political Philosophy is most useful when you connect those questions of regime, citizenship and authority to the Part IB History of Political Thought paper and the Part II Theory and Practice in History and Politics paper.
For regular listening, In Our Time: History models expert disagreement, HistoryExtra Podcast helps you find new topics and books, and Talking Politics remains useful for political ideas and contemporary politics.
For video, YaleCourses offers complete lecture series in history and political science, Gresham College has public lectures on history, politics, law and society, and the University of Cambridge channel includes admissions explainers and research talks.
Section 12
29 colleges offer this subject. 10.2% of applicants submit an open application. 20.6% of places come through the pool.
College choice affects where an applicant is interviewed, who reads the application first, accommodation and community style, and College-specific details such as written-work deadlines or possible College assessment.
The Winter Pool allows strong applicants to be reconsidered by other Colleges after the initial College assessment stage. In the 2024 Cambridge admissions-process table across all Cambridge subjects, open applications were 10.2% of total applications and winter-pooled applications were 20.6% of total applications.
It is worth choosing a College for fit, subject availability, location, accommodation preferences and confidence discussing written work with that College’s historians and politics specialists. An open application is a valid option for applicants without a strong College preference.
Section 13
Use the chart as indicative, because the occupation breakdown is based on Discover Uni Graduate Outcomes data for students graduating 2021–23 with only 15 respondents.
Section 14
Cambridge states that applications are assessed holistically using academic record, school or college reference, personal statement, written work, admissions assessment where required, contextual data, extenuating circumstances and interview. Contextual data gives a fuller picture of circumstances, but it does not automatically produce a lower offer, an interview or an offer.
Individual contextual factors can include care experience, estrangement, refugee or humanitarian-protection status, free-school-meal eligibility and extenuating circumstances declared through UCAS or My Cambridge Application. Cambridge also uses school or college data, including past GCSE/A Level performance and whether fewer than five students from the school have received Oxford or Cambridge offers in the past five years.
Contextual flags may lead to particular care in assessment, Winter Pool consideration, summer pooling and August Reconsideration Pool processes. Record disruption clearly and calmly, with evidence where available, rather than trying to dramatise it.
Watch & Learn
学生ブログ・模擬面接・講義体験・入試アドバイス。
Official Cambridge course video with students and staff discussing the History and Politics BA.
A Yale lecture on the move from imperial dispute to independence and political legitimacy.
A Yale lecture that links military history, political strategy and decision-making under uncertainty.
A Cambridge admissions video explaining how pooling works across Colleges.
A Cambridge admissions video on submitted work and assessments, relevant because this course requires written work.
All videos are the property of their respective creators.
Further Reading
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