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The School of Oriental and African Studies was founded in 1916 as the School of Oriental Studies. It took its current name in 1938 and moved to its new campus in 1941. Its iconic library was built in 1973. The university continues to expand slowly, maintaining itself as one of the premier centres for Asian […]
St Mary’s University began in 1850 as a teacher’s training school with close ties to the Catholic Church. It soon outgrew its original campus at Brook Green in Hammersmith, and it moved to a larger facility at Strawberry Hill in 1925. This campus originally held around 250 students, but has been enlarged several times. In […]
The University of reading was first given the Royal Charter in 1926, and is already planning for its 100th anniversary. Reading was the only university to be honoured with a royal charter between World War 1 and World War 2. Before taking the name ‘University of Reading, though, it was an extension College of the […]
The University of Buckingham’s story began in 1967, when DR J W Paulley suggested creating a UK university on the model of the great private universities in the US. In just six years, the University College at Buckingham had been incorporated as an educational charity. It was formally opened a mere 3 years later in […]
Keele University got its start on land purchased by the Stoke-on-Trent Corporation in 1948. The first school on the land was the University College of North Staffordshire in 1949. It became the University of Keele in 1962 when it was awarded the Royal Charter. Before then it had a complicated history, belonging to the fabled […]