danwaterfield

During my MA (UI, 18c history), probably 10 articles / chapters per week and a book or so. But I wasn't really putting that much effort in, as I also found the time to read a few novels per week, shifting to more MA books as I wrote up the dissertation over summer. I'm now doing a PhD, and I read about 110 books per year. I don't really count articles.

Yes, pretty much. You might see on papers etc 'independent scholar' but this is usually a signifier that such and such a person (always in the humanities) has got their PhD, done their post-doc, and is now either retired and writing books or borders the line between popular historical work and semi-active research. tl;dr Yes.

I had an email telling me I was succesful for the home (uk) competition back in March, then another telling me I was being upgraded to another scholarship in April. So yes, they'll have already gone out. But i'm aware that they're rolling basically right up till admission.

Absolutely ****ing terrified and also can't wait. Not looking forward to the rent though, my SO will be earning, but only a teacher's salary and bedrooms in Cambridge can go for £1k a month.

In Varna till Sept 4th, then gf's parents are coming for a week. My acceptance letter says i start on the 1st, but matriculation doesn't happen till the 7th or 8th of October. SO, I have less than 3 weeks to move all our stuff out of one end of the country, find a place in Cambridge and move everything in. Thankfully the country in question is England, so it's not like moving from one end of the USA to another, but still!

:-( do you have any back ups? any other funding opportunities?

There were five of us in total on my MA program in 18c history at Liverpool University. One had won a university wide international scholarship to come over from the usa (i think he'd got a 4.0 gpa) another was on her year abroad from Paris Diderot (in europe, unlike the uk, MA degrees are two years). That left three home students, inc myself. Across the whole history department, i think we fitted into a smallish room.

Ended up getting a VC award at Cambridge (48 university wide scholarships, apparently out of thousands of candidates), waitlisted for funding at York (24/35 on the list, ha) and nothing whatsoever from Durham. The most prestigious university gave me one of the rarest scholarships. The rest, nothing. Funding and grad apps are a lottery.

odd - there's a reasonable number on the survey, but suppose this forum has a very heavy american ivy league ish tinge

The research council studentships haven't been announced yet. I've got a student registry one, but those are rare; there should be an influx soon...ish, as the research councils were supposed to have been announced weeks ago.

Congrats! I know someone at Christ's and they adore it. But whichever college you ended up at, the vast majority adores it, apparently.

So - completion pending, obviously - I shouldn't have any problem with a Cambridge PhD in History if I'm competing against top 10 school grads for international positions?

God, that looks great. Shame that my University library's copy is five years overdue...

Quite late reply, but there's the science park nearby, as well as papworth (heart speciality) and addenbrookes hospitals. There'll be plenty of opportunities in that regard.

Hello, last one of these was in 2014 or so. I'll be at Queens, studying for a PhD in Eighteenth-Century History and Lit Anyone else?

Yes - certainly at UG level I got the impression that most large areas had already been covered. So when I first noticed such large gaps in the record at MA, I doubted myself for a good long time. Also the shoddy thinking by one's fellow academics blows one away sometimes. There's always plenty up for contention.

Via my MA dissertation on 18c British Literature. I've always been interested in novels, then theory, and then slowly but surely interested in novels as historical documents. Thanks greenblatt in second year! I noticed that nobody had really worked on the topic of religion in the novels of Frances Burney before, despite lots of subtle references to English Catholicism and her pretty open mindedness towards the faith. Then when I was reading around, I noticed that there was a lot of evidence for toleration between English Catholics and their Protestant neighbours, especially at the tail end of the 18c. Despite this, there were still anti-Catholic riots, emancipation didn't pass till the 1820s... why? I'm arguing that there existed a split between cultural representations of Catholicism and everyday experience. The last decent social history of anti-catholicism was in '93, and models of English national identity in the long 18c still follow Colley's stringent protestantism.

Exactly, the archives and catholic studies centre + supervisory and dept specialism in Burney was the whole point of why I applied there. Compared with, say, Cambridge - which has one of the best history depts in the world, where I'm a literary - though still historical - outlier, it's just... odd.

Thank you! Might still get AHRC funding on top of the vice-chancellor's award, apparently. Would make the choice between Cambridge and York a bit easier!

I'm so thrilled! I didn't get put forward for funding at Durham, which has a full supervisory fit - which is VERY odd. But AHRC funding is ridiculously competitive. I might still get it from Cambridge, too, apparently. And I've been put forward for funding at York...

Confirmation I'll receive a full vice chancellor's scholarship from Cambridge for the History faculty.

AHRC wise, no. I won't hear until the 16th of march. It'll be an anxious two weeks. Decision wise, yes; had an offer in mid january, and the college allocation very shortly afterwards.

Nah - not for English Studies, must be different for the History department there - I checked ). But I've been nominated for AHRC funding at York and Cambridge have said I have a good chance, so on va voir.

Ah, unlucky! Doubt i'll be going to Durham though. That silence on the AHRC nomination front has continued, and seeing as the deadline for getting the form in has now passed... bah. There's still the DDS though, so I guess I'll bother with the colleges; fingers crossed for st chads.

...you're not josb on the student room are you?