Universities in the Age of Reform, 1800-1870 - Matthew Andrews - Palgrave, 2019

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Universities in the Age of Reform, 1800-1870
Durham, London And King's College

di Matthew Andrews

    Editore: Springer International Publishing
    EAN: 9783030095666
    ISBN: 3030095665
    Pagine: 308
    Formato: Paperback

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.