The best way to prepare for an Oxbridge History interview is through mock interviews. As well as giving you general interview experience, they focus your mind on the types of questions asked at an Oxford or Cambridge History interview, teaching you to think in the way required for the real thing. Below, we have compiled a list of questions of the type you can expect to get in your Oxbridge History interview. Use them to give yourself an awareness of what's expected, plan out

The Oxbridge History degree is, to quote Shrek, like an onion – it has layers. The first layer is long, caffeine-fuelled nights sifting through weighty tomes; the second layer is racing to finish your weekly 3,000-word essay before your 6 o’clock deadline; but the third layer is where you finally get to the flavour. This is the chance to sit with leading historians, dissect your ideas, and receive personal feedback on the history essays you have poured your soul into. While