The History and Politics course combines two complementary but distinct disciplines to form a coherent and stimulating programme. The degree enables students to set contemporary political problems in their historical perspective as well as equipping them to approach the study of the past with the conceptual rigour derived from political science. A special feature of the Oxford course is students may choose from a broad range of subjects across the two disciplines, making it possible, for example, to combine medieval history options with analysis of contemporary political systems. The intellectual rigour of this course benefits from the expertise of Oxford’s political theorists and historians in the history of political thought. It is also strengthened by the thematic approach taken to European and World history teaching in the first year, combined with a focus on interdisciplinarity in a number of both Politics and History papers.