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  • 2 days ago | wonkhe.com | Hugh Jones |Mark Leach

    Greetings from Cambridge!Today’s card shows the Senate House at the University of Cambridge. Building started in 1722, the Senate House opened in 1730, and it was completed in 1768 (yes, that is the right order of events). It was designed by the Jameses Gibbs and Burroughs (the latter being master of Gonville and Caius); woodwork by James Essex the Elder; and ceiling plaster by Artari and Bagutti. As the name suggests, it was built as a meeting place for the university’s senate.

  • 1 week ago | wonkhe.com | Hugh Jones |Mark Leach

    Oh this year we’re off to sunny Spain! (If you’re old enough, you’ll know.) But we’re not taking the Costa Brava plane, instead we’re off to Mallorca. In 1483 King Ferdinand of Aragon (yes, that one; half of the double-act Ferdinand and Isabella) authorised the establishment of the Estudi General Lul-Lià in Palma, on the island of Mallorca. This was a college named in honour of Ramon Llull. Ramon Llull, philosopher and theologian, who lived from 1232 to 1316, and was a native Mallorcan.

  • 2 weeks ago | wonkhe.com | Hugh Jones |Mark Leach

    Greetings from Bolton. Definitely Bolton. In 1824, a mechanics’ institute was established in Bolton. Mechanics’ institutes were a new phenomenon – the first was established in Scotland in 1821. They were, in essence, a subscription-based club which provided an opportunity for education, aimed at the better-off members of the working class. As the 1857 advert in the Bolton Chronicle shows, it was still going fifty years later. You can see the 1857 subscription fees in the advertisement.

  • 3 weeks ago | wonkhe.com | Hugh Jones |Mark Leach

    Greetings from Cambridge – and unlike last week, this time we’re definitely in England. It is 1878, and the Cambridge Independent Press of 7 December reports that the university has taken steps to enable the training of teachers. The Teachers’ Training Syndicate (its Cambridge-ese for a committee or working group, I think) is to be established, to oversee programmes of training for students intending to become school teachers, and the colleges at which they train.

  • 1 month ago | wonkhe.com | Hugh Jones |Mark Leach

    It’s 1959, and Durham University is still a federal university, with colleges in Durham and Newcastle. And expansion in Durham was underway. Elvet Hill, just south of the River Wear, had already seen St Mary’s College move in 1952 from its old site; and now a new college was being built. The college was to be named Grey College, after Charles Grey, Prime Minister when the university was founded (Grey may also have been the earl who inspired the eponymous tea).

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