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Swansea University got its start in 1920 when King George V laid the first stone, and 89 students enrolled the same year. By 1939 it had expanded to encompass 485 students and 65 staff. However, there were only 2 building s on the ‘campus’ until well after the second world war. Expansion began in the […]
The University of Cumbria got its start as a variety of regional institutions, including Charlotte Mason’s Teacher Training College, founded in the 1890s and the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts, which dates back to 1822. These institutions left a long legacy, eventually evolving into the colleges which merged to form the University […]
The University of Birmingham was established by Royal Charter in 1900, one of the last universities chartered under Queen Victoria. From the beginning it was a civic institution, revolutionary in that it eagerly accepted students from all social classes and backgrounds equally. The University of Birmingham has led the way in many fields over the […]
The Royal Holloway University of London was founded as 2 separate institutions in the 19th century. First was Bedford College in 1849, founded by philanthropist Elizabeth Jesser Reid. Nearly 40 years later, her husband Thomas Holloway founded the Royal Holloway College as well. Queen Victoria herself opened the Founder’s Building there in 1886. They remained […]
Harper Adams got its start back in 1901, at the close of the Victorian Era. Even then, its focus was firmly set on managing food and resource production in a scientific, sustainable and responsible manner. Indeed, the addition of a substantial Innovation Centre in the main campus allows a new focus on industrial advancement, and […]