Stay tuned as Professor Pedro Ramos Pinto, History Director of Studies at Trinity Hall, delves into everything you need to know about studying History at Cambridge.Check out Pedro's other videos below, on History interviews and belonging at Cambridge:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g36BNI5R7sMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChUufEJ9rLYA list of topic discussions can be found below:00:00 Introductions01:00 What is History? What do students learn when studying a History degree at Cambridge?05:50 How has the History course changed since its 2022 renovation?07:40 What is the course structure?12:50 What time period does the course cover?13:40 How global is the course?14:50 What are some of the modules on offer, or that you teach?15:50 Pedro’s course on the history of Western Europe since 1945 through the lens of work and workers19:30 What are the subtopics within the ‘Historical Thinking’ strand of the course?23:20 What are History supervisions like?27:20 What would historians miss out on without supervisions?29:00 Different styles of academic writing31:00 Diverse approaches to academia34:00 Is there an opportunity to do a thesis?35:40 Travel grants at Cambridge37:40 How does History differ from courses like English Literature and Philosophy?43:30 What is intellectual history?45:00 The overlap between History and the Human, Social, and Political Sciences (HSPS) course46:30 Opportunities to study Economics within the History degree48:40 The origin story of the History and Modern Languages course53:10 Pedro’s research interests55:20 Pedro’s interest in political welfare and human rights57:30 Studying one’s own personal history58:40 Which modules would Pedro choose if he were to study the degree again?Originally from Portugal, Pedro came to Trinity Hall in 2013, after five years at the University of Manchester. He is an historian of 20th-century Europe, particularly Southern Europe with interests in the histories of inequality, welfare and social movements. His first book, Lisbon Rising (2013) examined the emergence and role of social movements of the urban poor during Portugal’s Carnation Revolution (1974-1976).Since then he has worked on a variety of topics, including histories of Universal Basic Income, of how inequalities have been measured in the past, as well as on authoritarian welfare regimes in Southern Europe and Latin America.At Cambridge Pedro teaches in a range of courses, including The Twentieth Century World, Europe’s Age of Violence, and is starting a new final year course exploring the cultures, debates and politics of work in post-war Europe.