Daniel Phillips

Daniel Phillips

London, London

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History Tutor and Candidate for a PhD in Music at the University of Cambridge with over Eight Years of Teaching Experience

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As a Supervisor in the Faculty of Music, I teach undergraduate music students at Cambridge. Alongside my MPhil studies at Cambridge, in which I specialised in the cultural history and musical aesthetics of Germany and France in the Long Nineteenth Century, I developed over 150 hours of experience teaching Music, History, Philosophy, English Literature and Classical Civilisation to A-Level students. I have also developed 8 years of experience teaching a range of ages and abilities as a violin teacher. Areas of Historical Expertise 1. Europe in The Long Nineteenth Century – The Music, Politics and Culture of France and Germany in The Long Nineteenth Century (1776–1914) 2. Medieval and Early Modern History – The Political, Economic and Military History of Anglo-Saxon England 827–1066 – The Norman Conquest and The Plantagenets 1066–1216 – Tudor History (1509–1603), The Stuarts (1603–1649), The English Civil War (1642–1649), The Commonwealth (1649–1659), and The Restoration of Charles II (1660–1685) – The Crusades (1095–1204) 3. Ancient History and Classical History A. Roman History – Republican Rome from the First Punic War to Caesar's Crossing of the Rubicon 264 BC – 49 BC – Caesar's Civil War, The Second Triumvirate, and The Second Roman Civil War 49 BC – 29 BC B. Ancient Greece and Classical Philosophy - The Homeric World - The Persian Wars 499–449 BC – The Pelopponesian War 431–404 BC – Herodotus - Thucydides – Pre-Socratic Philosophy (Thales, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and so on) – Plato – Aristotle – Ancient Greek Stoicism – Epicureanism – Skepticism – Democritus and the Classical Metaphysics of Atomism – Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology and Ontology in Ancient and Classical Greece – Sophocles and Classical Tragedy 4. Methods of Historical Research – Methods of Primary Source Analysis – Secondary Source Analysis – Techniques and Strategies of Exegesis – Techniques of Cultural History – Ethnography – Sociological and Anthropological Methods 5. Philosophies of History and Historiography – Positivism – The New Historicism – The New Materialism – Marxist Historiography – Actor Network Theory – The History of Technology – Critical Theory – Philosophies of History

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