Universities in the Age of Reform, 1800-1870 [electronic resource] : Durham, London and King's College / by Matthew Andrews.

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Universities in the Age of Reform, 1800-1870 [electronic resource] : Durham, London and King's College / by Matthew Andrews.

9783319767260
3319767267
3319767259
9783319767253
3319767259
9783319767253

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

English

1 online resource (x, 296 pages 13 illustrations in color.) : online resource

10.1007/978-3-319-76726-0 doi
9783319767253

DA1-DA995

378.42

This book considers a crucial moment in the development of English higher education, and also provides a new and comprehensive history of the early decades of Durham University. During the Age of Reform innovative ideas about the role and purpose of a university were moving at an unprecedented pace. Proposals for new institutions in all parts of the country were developing quickly and resulted in the foundation of Durham University, London University (later re-styled University College, London), and King's College, London. While normally overshadowed by the London institutions, this book demonstrates not only that Durham attempted to produce a far broader institution than any historian has given its founders credit for, but that a remarkable attempt at a third-way in English higher education has been neglected. Matthew Andrews therefore not only provides the first fully researched account of this important national institution since 1932, but also carefully situates Durham in its contemporary context, and alongside the two other most prominent emerging institutions of that time.

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