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Prologue

analysis. you, a early adult who is juggling three jobs and struggling financially is charged with murder against your neighbor who was brutally stabbed in the middle of the night. unable to hire a lawyer, the department has assigned you one of the lawyers they offer. little did you know that trusting this gorgeous redhead was going to play in a major change in your life.

pairing. corrupt lawyer/mob boss!nat x puppy!reader

wc. 0.8k

warnings. dark themes, masc natasha (🧎‍♀️‍➡️), mob boss natasha, kidnapping, gunshot wound, evil natasha (no she isn't she is just kindly rehoming you to her house), age gap (Nat is in her 30's, Reader is in her early 20's).

authors note. prologue written before i post chapter one…

“I didn’t do it,” The words that left your lips were immediate as soon as the door opened to the office you were dropped off in. The redhead that had walked in with a file in hand had stared directly into your eyes as soon as those words had blurted out of your lips like a cry for help. Natasha smirked, her body moving to sit in the chair across from you as pity adorned her features. Which to be honest, was faux. She had no pity, yet she was interested in you, her eyes scanned your features. You looked exactly like you did when the police officers took your photos when they brought you to the station to get interviewed for the investigation of a murder.

“As much as I’d like to believe you sweetheart, I can’t exactly help you out if that is all you’re going to say,” She said smoothly, setting the vanilla folder in front of her as she opened it up to look at the documents of your arrest and the statement that was made from the police department. Her tongue clicked against the top of her roof, you didn’t choose Natasha as your lawyer. No. You didn’t have the funds to hire one so the department had picked a lawyer for you to go to the court for your statement.

“I don’t even really know who Ms. Danvers was, why would I kill her?” You had stated rapidly, tears were finding your eyes as you pleadingly looked at the lawyer in front of you. Hands shaking as you brought them together against the table to pick at the skin above the crevices of your nail beds. A calloused hand had grabbed yours, the comfort of the lawyer odd but it was appreciated.

“Look, I get why I would be suspected. Just a lone, freshly young adult who is struggling financially while juggling three jobs, but I swear on my mama’s life that I have not talked to Ms. Danvers for more than five minutes in my life, she was just my neighbor who I never knew,” You explained, your tone shaky as you had your tongue lick over your dry and cracked lips. Wetting them as you let out a soft exhale, feeling the redheads hands draw back to pull out a white sheet of paper that had the word contract listed atop of it.

“This is for you to sign, it’s needed for my services specifically,” A finger tapped gently against a blank line for your signature to be placed alongside with the date beside it. A soft grin found her face, “I promise you, I will do everything in my power to make sure you aren’t jailed for something you didn’t do,” You analyzed the sheet carefully, the words blurring in your vision as you just grabbed the pen and blindly signed your name without looking it over. Without a second thought you knew you wanted to get out of this nightmare. You had briefly conversed more with the lawyer until you were allowed to leave the office.

You had parked further down the street to prevent yourself from getting jammed into traffic. You moved to the passenger side of your vehicle to throw your bag into the seat before you felt a hand muffle against your mouth. You tried to scream but the sound was muffled, feeling yourself be pulled into the alleyway. Your body thrashed, doing everything in your power to fight off whoever had grabbed you. You weren’t going down, no, you still had a fight to win to prove your innocence to the judging eyes of the law. That is when you heard the loud bang, a gunshot. You ducked your head, who shot a gun? Who got shot? Your mind was dizzy, blanking before your hand went to reach the sudden ache in your shoulder, the feeling of liquid on your palm had you freeze. Your breathing picked up in fear, panicking before you felt everything around you blur and turned black.

–

The security cameras showed everything, except for the face of who had grabbed you. The detectives looked over it carefully, when it was mentioned that you weren’t home when an officer swung by the check up on you, they went to the location where your cell phone was last pinged. Your car is still in the same spot, passenger door open with your phone sitting in your purse. The only sign was blood on the cement of the alleyway. The footage of you being shot in the back of the shoulder was repeating itself. “I’m doubting whoever shot her took her in to the hospital,” One detective spoke out, voice monotone as they added on, “There’s no way she’d survive that shot after twenty four hours, that footage was taken yesterday around 4:30 p.m. and we’re watching it now at 6:00 p.m.. I just say, call her dead and call her the murderer of Danvers, case closed,”

Murmurs of agreement filled the room, each person filing out of the room carefully before they shut the footage down on the device. Closing the case, and the primary suspect called dead.

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out of curiousity, and I know my first mistake was looking at wikipedia as a source but I was curious to see how the article talked about lumpenproletariat knowing how wikipedia's biases lay. they talk about how Marx and Engels (in the words of another person entirely) laid out the concept of lumpenproletariat like they made up an insult essentially to be like "gah prostitutes and homeless people are useless and yeah they can be thrown under the bus" and then I remembered. wasn't Marx literally disabled??? I know that he had to rely on Engels for financial support at times, so like wouldn't it be sort of counterintuitive for him to insinuate such a callous attitude against a vulnerable class of people? forgive me if my wording is kind of shit, but that analysis of their words feels like a small part in how people try to demonize communism with like gotchas and statements like "see your great thinkers were actually super shitty people!" would you say that this is an accurate takeaway?

Karl Marx suffered from chronic pain due to a severe skin condition for many years which impaired his mobility, and so from a modern perspective he would likely have been considered disabled. Additionally, he did indeed experience long periods of unemployment and often depended on the financial aid of Engels in order to pursue his writing career. Without the aid of Engels and the various other comrades who helped him, he could possibly have been reduced to the status of "lumpen".

I don't think Marx's attitude towards the lumpen is accurately understood as "let's just throw the lot under the bus". Rather, when he referred to the lumpen proletariat in his writing, it was mainly to address the question of their class character.

The February Revolution had cast the army out of Paris. The National Guard, that is, the bourgeoisie in its different gradations, constituted the sole power. Alone, however, it did not feel itself a match for the proletariat. Moreover, it was forced gradually and piecemeal to open its ranks and admit armed proletarians, albeit after the most tenacious resistance and after setting up a hundred different obstacles. There consequently remained but one way out: to play off part of the proletariat against the other.

For this purpose the Provisional Government formed twenty–four battalions of Mobile Guards, each a thousand strong, composed of young men from fifteen to twenty years old. They belonged for the most part to the lumpen proletariat, which in all big towns forms a mass sharply differentiated from the industrial proletariat, a recruiting ground for thieves and criminals of all kinds living on the crumbs of society, people without a definite trade, vagabonds, gens sans feu et sans aveu [men without hearth or home], varying according to the degree of civilization of the nation to which they belong, but never renouncing their lazzaroni character – at the youthful age at which the Provisional Government recruited them, thoroughly malleable, as capable of the most heroic deeds and the most exalted sacrifices as of the basest banditry and the foulest corruption. The Provisional Government paid them 1 franc 50 centimes a day; that is, it bought them. It gave them their own uniform; that is, it made them outwardly distinct from the blouse-wearing workers. In part it assigned officers from the standing army as their leaders; in part they themselves elected young sons of the bourgeoisie whose rodomontades about death for the fatherland and devotion to the republic captivated them.

And so the Paris proletariat was confronted with an army, drawn from its own midst, of 24,000 young, strong, foolhardy men. It gave cheers for the Mobile Guard on its marches through Paris. It acknowledged it to be its foremost fighters on the barricades. It regarded it as the proletarian guard in contradistinction to the bourgeois National Guard. Its error was pardonable.

Karl Marx, The Class Struggles in France, 1850

So here we see Marx in his analysis of the events in France at the end of the 1840s saying not that the lumpen must be "thrown under the bus", but rather illustrating how the material conditions of unemployment and poverty made the lumpen vulnerable to bribery and thus capable of being turned against the rest of the proletariat, and criticizing the Parisian revolutionaries for the "pardonable" error of assuming that the proletarian nature of the lumpen recruited into the Mobile Guard meant they would be sympathetic to the revolutionaries or otherwise an improvement over the National Guard.

While in The Eighteenth Brumaire, Marx seems to have a more distasteful view of the lumpen and their role in France during this period, primarily it seems with the intent to insult Louis Bonaparte by referring to him as the "prince of the lumpen proletariat", later on in Capital Marx seems to avoid the phrase "lumpen" entirely, preferring instead to refer to concepts such as "pauperism" in the context of the reserve army of labor:

The lowest sediment of the relative surplus population finally dwells in the sphere of pauperism. Exclusive of vagabonds, criminals, prostitutes, in a word, the “dangerous” classes, this layer of society consists of three categories. First, those able to work. One need only glance superficially at the statistics of English pauperism to find that the quantity of paupers increases with every crisis, and diminishes with every revival of trade. Second, orphans and pauper children. These are candidates for the industrial reserve army, and are, in times of great prosperity, as 1860, e.g., speedily and in large numbers enrolled in the active army of labourers. Third, the demoralised and ragged, and those unable to work, chiefly people who succumb to their incapacity for adaptation, due to the division of labour; people who have passed the normal age of the labourer; the victims of industry, whose number increases with the increase of dangerous machinery, of mines, chemical works, &c., the mutilated, the sickly, the widows, &c. Pauperism is the hospital of the active labour-army and the dead weight of the industrial reserve army. Its production is included in that of the relative surplus population, its necessity in theirs; along with the surplus population, pauperism forms a condition of capitalist production, and of the capitalist development of wealth. It enters into the faux frais of capitalist production; but capital knows how to throw these, for the most part, from its own shoulders on to those of the working class and the lower middle class.

The greater the social wealth, the functioning capital, the extent and energy of its growth, and, therefore, also the absolute mass of the proletariat and the productiveness of its labour, the greater is the industrial reserve army. The same causes which develop the expansive power of capital, develop also the labour power at its disposal. The relative mass of the industrial reserve army increases therefore with the potential energy of wealth. But the greater this reserve army in proportion to the active labour army, the greater is the mass of a consolidated surplus population, whose misery is in inverse ratio to its torment of labour. The more extensive, finally, the lazarus layers of the working class, and the industrial reserve army, the greater is official pauperism. This is the absolute general law of capitalist accumulation. Like all other laws it is modified in its working by many circumstances, the analysis of which does not concern us here.

Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One, Chapter 25, Section 4, 1867

So I think it would be safe to say that in the most developed form of Marx's thought, the "lumpen", or the paupers and disabled, are to be seen as victims of capitalism, the remedy to which is to raise their conditions of existence via socialist economic policies, not to simply throw them under the bus.

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Hi! Can i ask a scenario for the mlqc boys as mobsters and thinks Mc is just the everyday civilian, when they find out Mc is apart of some kind of gang too? Thanks

Hi there! The boys as mobsters, hm? Interesting.

I could see Victor being a boss-type, Gavin being a hitman or right hand, Lucien being the under-the-table-arms-dealer who sometimes operates as the medic/cleaner, and Kiro relies more on his cannon role as Key, hacking and supporting from the tech side (and maybe makes music on the side for fun). I think he’s too friendly and likeable to stay undercover  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Slight warning for Lucien’s part because they talk about murder by hogs. Brief warning for Gavin’s part, as it mentions death.

🍷  Victor 🍷

He’s not lying when he says he’s a business man

Victor’s plays the CEO role so well that he sometimes forgets it’s just an image booster.

Most of his mob work happens through a very encrypted connection on a smaller, private laptop that he hides behind his huge desktop. Every now and then he organizes meetings at Souvenir, as it’s so exclusive and open at random

Victor was in the middle of telling Mr. Mills that everyone needed to leave (for an upcoming meeting) when he sees you and suddenly he doesn’t know what to say

Thankfully, he’s not wearing the apron. He just looks like a regular suit coming in for a chat

Mr. Mills plays wingman (acts as a regular host and chats you up) and help him get a little info on you

Victor gives you free dessert

He held a half-assed meeting that night

It’s a slow and steady venture into dating but after about 4 months he’s semi-regular at your apartment

Being the boss of a mafia branch, Victor has a growing suspicion that you’re also in one

You’re oddly organized, have unlabeled planners and journals that you never seem to mix up (but he can’t find them when you’re gone), and always have conveniently believable excuses for random outings

Your knife work in the kitchen has a deftness and purpose that catches his eye. It’s not the finesse of a regular chef.

Call it a hunch, but Victor knows He proves it by getting you jewelry with a tracker in it–anticipating that you won’t reject it because you don’t know that he knows–which leads him to a nondescript hideout of a female gang

Victor confronts you after you get home, opening with something disarming like ‘we have something else in common’

Neither of your factions are in a war against each other so it’s awkward for the next few days but ultimately there’s a peace of mind knowing you don’t have to worry about each other because you have the same kind of ‘family’ looking out for you

 🔬 Lucien 🔬

Lucien probably figures out you’re in the mafia pretty quickly. He’s big on body language and analysis

He has a hard time believing someone as gifted and beautiful as you is a simple maid but you do always smell like cleaning supplies (the story checks out).

You like to watch crime documentaries together

When you joke about wanting a pet pig for personal safety, Lucien knows that you know some stuff. Evil stuff. He’d casually but deliberately tell you something incorrect like, ‘Did you know a pig can eat a whole human if it’s really hungry? I’ve heard it works best with a lactating sow.’

“One pig can’t eat a whole human,” you correct him, “I’ve heard one pig can eat 10-14 pounds of sow feed in one sitting. And they also have trouble digesting teeth and hair. You’d need at least 10-15 pigs to eat an average-sized person.”

There’s a moment of silence where he gives you that ‘gotcha!’ shit-eating grin

He mentally compliments you for brushing it off so calmly. Nonchalantly. “Heard it on TV.”

But it’s the way he shifts closer and cozies up to you, tilting his head, that lets you know you’ve been caught

“Technically I don’t know anything,” you shrug. “I just clean.”

“Perhaps we could enlist your services sometime.” he plays with your hair and strokes the back of your neck with his thumb

It hits you. Of course he’d be in the mafia! He’s already tall and wicked smart, too good to be normal, right?!

Depending on the size of your mafia, Victor may write up a business deal to make you allies or just absorb your clan into his

📢 Gavin 📢

You were on your way home, vaguely aware of being tailed

It was actually a regular guy, not someone you’d been told to look out for

You planned to let him follow you around the corner, then beat the snot out of him, but an officer had different plans

Gavin had received several reports of a strange guy following girls home from the station and out of restaurants. He’d been playing a frustrating game of tag for about an hour, relying on reports

The perp was bouncing from girl to girl, likely just being obnoxious and walking off after too many rejections

He finally spots him, intending on checking him for weapons and to inform him of the many complaints

Gavin doesn’t know if he tackled him first, or if you roundhouse-kicked him back into the tackle

The guy’s on the ground, Gavin falls on top of him, and just stares in disbelief

That was cool! That was hot!

Gavin stumbles through a small statement/interview, asking if you’d reported him or had been around any of the other girls who’d reported him that nigh

tA few days later, he checks up on you. Now he gives you a nod when you pass each other in the streets.

Somehow it turns into dating. Gavin goes hardcore on the nighttime safety lectures and how to keep yourself safe at home (lock the doors, lock the windows, etc.)

You show him your pepper spray, your taser, and run through what you’d do if someone broke in

He’s a little nervous but has to admit you know your stuff. You give him this cute little smile that almost disarms him.

You’re really too calm running through all of this, like you don’t think you’d be in any danger. The suspect meter goes up.

Everything’s confirmed on date night. It’s a nice night–kind of chilly–but you’ve just finished eating at a hole-in-the-wall restaurant and were heading back to your car when that spine-tingling sensation of someone coming at you arose

You didn’t know if they were there for you or Gavin (being a policeman can make a lot of enemies!) but you had a throwing knife in your pocket ready to go

The man ends up being mortally wounded but Gavin doesn’t ask you any questions until people who ‘owe him a favor’ get rid of the body

He was just grateful the area didn’t have a lot of cameras.

Once you get back to your apartment a small fight explodes. He learns you’re in the mafia, and you learn he’s in the mafia.

“You are worth that sacrifice,” you told him. “I don’t care who they were after. I just didn’t want them to hurt you. You mean a lot to me, you know?”

“That’s my line,” is all he says. There’s a huge, soft smile on his face. Both of you are tired from the yelling and the screaming, but the way he pats your head and presses his forehead to yours lets you know it’ll be okay.

🎤 Kiro 🎤

He has multiple personas and works very hard at keeping them organized. Kiro’s always juggling the public persona, the person he is with his boss, and being your boyfriend

It can be a tough job but he wouldn’t give it up for anything in the world! While hacking he’s erased hospital debts and all kinds of stuff!

When Victor gives him assignments, it’s mostly to canvas an area through cameras or dig through the financials of opposing clans to have insider knowledge to bring up during deals

Since he never really shows his face during deals (more Gavin than himself), Kiro’s content to keep at his little tech business. He helps people repair their electronics for next to nothing (Victor’s money keeps the lights on).

He met you while fixing your computer and boy is a NERVOUS MESS

Like, he dropped a screwdriver, hit his head on the counter picking a screw off the floor kind of flustered

Even through all the nervous babbling he’s cute and charming. You agree to a coffee date and Kiro’s sold

It isn’t until your phone breaks (you refuse to get a new one because they’re expensive) and you won’t let him look at it that he gets suspicious

You haven’t let him look at it for almost a week, and then suddenly it’s at a repair shop

Kiro gets the bright idea to see if your phone’s really dead, hacking into the GPS system

It wasn’t broke. You were just making trips to your mafia HQ.

He doesn’t know if he’s hurt or impressed that you could pull one over him. Then again, he never really looked at you that hard because he loves you.

Kiro decides to confront you, and waits until you get settled back in at his shop. The cameras are off (can’t let them see the confession), the blinds are down, and the CLOSED sign is up. His heartbeat is in his throat, but he lets you know that he knows

If you look like you’re going to leave, he throws himself under the bus.

It makes you come back to him, straddle him in his little work chair, and demand proof.

Once you see you’re in the same business, you relax. Kiro does, too.

“You can buy my silence with hugs, kisses, and food!” he jokes.

“Can I make a down payment?” you look up at him through your lashes and he turns beet red. He didn’t think you’d play into it!You break the work chair.

Hope you liked it!

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hey i was just reading your post about managerial accounting and im taking the class this coming spring semester, we’ll also be using wileyPLUS, financial accounting was really enjoyable to me and i found the course material to be easy, but i was warned that managerial accounting would be harder as there is more theory and analysis, do you have any tips? i honestly do enjoy accounting since financial accounting was the first accounting class i took. this is coming from an econ major

OMG are you me LMAO i was literally planning to major in Econ previously but then transferred from Arts to Business School cause in my uni, if business school accepts you, it’d be dumb to turn them down (since it’s harder to get in) so i took it and im glad i did cause im enjoying Accounting

ANYWAY.. well we’ve only covered like up to the midterm material so far. i dont know if your prof would have the same syllabus but here are some tips that helped me get through all the assignment and testable material so far with ease:

master the basic concept of managerial accounting because this concept will get built up on. I took notes for Chapter 14: Managerial Accounting in Business and it supremely helped me in understanding Chapter 15 Job-Order Costing and Chapter 17 Activity Based Costing

i dont wanna overwhelm you with formulas but if you master and know what a the Cost of Goods Manufactured Schedule, which is a financial statement, from Chapter 14 looks like.. it will help you understand the logic easily and help you memorise the formulas/equations you need to know

there’s also a chapter, Ch 18, Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis, where your econ background should help you where you tackle variable cost and fixed cost. if you know how that works in Economics, this chapter should be easier. the only difference is there are some accounting formulas to remember and there’s the concept of mixed cost, but the challenge usually stems from how to allocate cost for each category. Econ should help you there

i think the reason why people might not like Managerial Accounting is it’s focused on costing and manufacturing. so you don’t make a lot of journal entries here. there are some chapters where you do but in MA, the methodology of assigning and determining costs is the main focus. and yes, there can be some theory and analysis but it’s not rocket science

and yeah people think MA is boring.. personally im enjoying it so i guess different folks different strokes. i also found FA pretty satisfying though

if you have any more questions, feel free to send me a DM! I’d be glad to help. i’m sure you’ll be fine :)

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Applying to Oxbridge for Postgraduates - References, Essays, and Research Proposals

Applying for Oxbridge requires four kinds of supporting documentation: one or two essays (or equivalent sample work), academic references, an academic CV, and a research statement. I’m not going to run through an academic CV here but there is some great advice and samples on all different types of CVs on Prospects. However, the best place to go for advice is your university careers service. I am going to run through suitable essays, references, and tips for a research proposal.

References

Oxbridge (and all other UK universities) require graduate students to provide academic references to support their applications. These should be provided by your current (or recent) university tutors, lecturers, or professors. Good referees are:

Dissertation supervisors – my supervisor was my primary referee for all my applications as he knew me the best after a year of intensely working together on my research. Supervisors are (usually) more than willing to act as a referee, especially if you’ve built up a good relationship and not spent your dissertation year ignoring them!

Personal tutor – my university assigned each second-year student a personal tutor among the academic staff in our department. My personal tutor was the one who actually suggests I applied to Oxbridge and was more than willing to provide a reference for me. So, if you had something similar they’re a good option to ask for a reference.

Head of department – heads of department are not always going to know you personally, however, it is likely they know you well enough to provide a reference, especially in an academic setting.

Favourite lecturer – the lecturer you got on with the best are a great referee. They want you to do the best you can and will most likely be more than willing to give you a reference.

Just remember to ask a potential email if you can put them down on the form. I have never had an academic say no to me over this, but a quick email to them is a must!

Essays

This is something that a lot of people worry about, however, it’s a small part of the application process. The essays are important, but they are also a place for you to show off your skills as an academic. Don’t worry too much about them!

Rewrite old essays. I took two of my best essays from my undergraduate degree, edited them, and made the improvements suggested in my feedback. You shouldn’t just submit essays you’ve written previously, however, the best way to present yourself is to make two good essays even better and it is perfectly acceptable to use old work again for an application. Using older essays also means you know what the quality of your work is already so you can just rewrite sections to improve the presentation of your argument to show off your full potential.

Chose topics relevant to your chosen course. It’s not essential, but it’s advisable to use essays that cover topics relevant to what you’re applying to study. This gives the department considering your application a decent idea of what you’re like academically in the area you love. For example, I chose to revamp a second-year essay on the New Model Army and the literature review for my dissertation, which showed my love for my specialism and early modern history in general.

Use different types of essay. You can use two argument pieces, however, providing two different essays will give the department a better sense of you. My essay on the New Model Argument gave an in-depth analysis and argument about a topic I’m interested in, while the literature review for my dissertation showed my detailed understanding of historiography and how I can evaluate, find flaws, and build on previous ideas that inform areas of my study.

Formatting. Make sure your essays are in the appropriate format, including the correct referencing system. Using the right referencing system is really important as it shows an awareness of academic conventions, so check whether they expect Chicago, Harvard, APA, etc. Also, just make sure your punctuation is spot on. It seems superfluous but departments are looking at the quality of your writing style as well as the substance of what you’re saying.

Utilise others. Ask someone to read your essays, whether this is a tutor or lecturer, a friend, or a family member. Having someone read over your work to spot mistakes or make academic suggestions is really helpful as they’ll notice things you won’t. I asked my dissertation supervisor, personal tutor, and my mum to read over my essays and they all caught things I’d missed.

Research Statement

Your research statement is the most important part of the application process and it’s vital to get it right as places are partly awarded based on whether someone is willing to supervise your thesis. This makes writing your statement a nerve-racking and difficult process, but it should be one of the easiest parts of the process.

An extension of previous research. Most people who apply for a masters are seeking to explore an aspect of their dissertation further. This makes picking their thesis proposal a lot easier to consider as you know the scholarship and sources behind your research idea inside and out. For example, I’m taking my dissertation on the emotions of seventeenth century English religion further to explore the emotionality of sacramental piety in the same period.

Build on your ideas with your current supervisor. My dissertation supervisor was heavily involved in my application process and a big part of this was us sitting down together to chat about my future research ideas and outlining what I could feasibly do with my masters (and beyond, he was a godsend!) I used this brainstorming session to map out exactly what I wanted to do and correct any initial flaws in my ideas which strengthened my proposal.

Research. This is particularly important if your applying for a masters different from your degree (e.g. heritage from history) or if you’re changing your specialism. You are required to know what is going on around your chosen field and you need to build a comprehensive knowledge base to work from during your course. This doesn’t need to be perfect, but you need to show an understanding of the scholarship around your field.

Show off. Mention those relevant skills you have already learnt, but also mention you want to improve. So, if you’ve started to study palaeography at university, mention it and tell them how you want to develop.

Don’t just say what you want to do, tell them what Oxbridge can do for you. Why do you want to pursue this course in particular? How will studying at Oxbridge develop you as an academic? What modules interest you the most. Suck up to them, just don’t over do it. It’s a fine line and it’s not something I can truly outline here.

Identify a potential supervisor. Gear your application towards a supervisor, don’t make it painfully obvious as another academic may be more appropriate to supervise you. However, hinting you want to work with someone is a good way to get your application noticed.

Include relevant research. Name academics or books you loved, highlight them and explain why you liked it, or the other way around! You need to reference in the research proposal anyway, but this shows off your understanding of the material! Do the same for primary sources.

Identify a theory, academic framework or model you want to use. This is highly personal to you and your study and you need to consider it carefully. Your proposal is unlikely to be your final study. However, is nice to have something in mind and shows you’ve clearly thought through your proposal and research idea. For example, I’m pulling from emotion theory and the history of emotions as a framework for my proposal.

Don’t worry about the word count until you’ve covered everything you want to say. This allows you to worry about the quality first and sort out the quantity of words later. For both Oxford and Cambridge, the word count was 1,000 (including references). However, make sure you check this before submitting.

Most importantly apply with a topic you love. This sounds silly, but this will be your academic specialism and a masters degree is an intense process. Apply for a subject you love with a thesis proposal that you have a passion for, otherwise it’s not worth applying at all!

Found this helpful? I’m compiling a series of posts similar to this. Find links below (under construction):

General advice | Application form | Colleges | Contacting potential supervisors | Transcripts, financial declarations, and the post-acceptance process