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Book Synopsis A History of University College, Oxford by : Robin Darwall-Smith
Download or read book A History of University College, Oxford written by Robin Darwall-Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first history in over a century of what is arguably Oxford's oldest College. As one of the few organizations in the UK whose history goes back so far, this is an account of the College from its origins over seven and a half centuries ago to the present day.
Book Synopsis The University of Oxford by : Laurence Brockliss
Download or read book The University of Oxford written by Laurence Brockliss and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of Oxford is the third oldest university in Europe and remains one of the greatest universities in the world. How did such an ancient institution flourish through the ages?This book offers a succinct illustrated account of its colourful and controversial 800-year history, from medieval times through the Reformation and on to the nineteenth century, in which the foundations of the modern tutorial system were laid. It describes the extraordinary and influential people who shaped the development of the institution and helped to create today's world-class research university.Institutions have waxed and waned over the centuries but Oxford has always succeeded in reinventing itself to meet the demands of a new age. Richly illustrated with archival material, prints and portraits, this book explores how a university in a small provincial town rose to become one of the top universities in the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis A Little History of Philosophy by : Nigel Warburton
Download or read book A Little History of Philosophy written by Nigel Warburton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to the ideas of major Western philosophers, including Aristotle, Augustine, John Locke, and Karl Marx.
Book Synopsis The History of the University of Oxford: Volume VIII: The Twentieth Century by : Brian Harrison
Download or read book The History of the University of Oxford: Volume VIII: The Twentieth Century written by Brian Harrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-07 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the eighth in The History of the University of Oxford, shows how one of the world's major universities has responded to the formidable challenges offered by the twentieth century. Because Oxford's response has not taken a revolutionary or dramatic form, outside observers have not always appreciated the scale of its transformation. Here full attention is given to the forces for change: the rapid growth in provision for the natural and social sciences; the advance of professionalism in scholarship, sport, and cultural achievement; the diffusion of international influences through Rhodes scholars, two world wars, and the University's mounting research priorities; the growing impact of government and of public funding; the steady advance of women; and the impact made by Oxford's broadened criteria for undergraduate admission. The volume also provides valuable background material for the discussion of educational policy. In short, its presents the reader with a rich cornucopia of insight into many aspects of British life.
Book Synopsis Oriel College: A History by : Jeremy Catto
Download or read book Oriel College: A History written by Jeremy Catto and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first history of Oriel College, Oxford for over a hundred years. It is an account of a distinctive society, written by a group of specialist scholars whose aim it is to place the body of Orielenses in the context not only of Oxford but of British and international history.
Book Synopsis Early Records of University College, Oxford by : Robin Darwall-Smith
Download or read book Early Records of University College, Oxford written by Robin Darwall-Smith and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University College claims to be the oldest College in Oxford, tracing its origins to an endowment of 1249. This book brings together the great majority of pre-1550 documents, other than its account rolls, from the College's archives, providing a sourcebook for its early history. The first part contains editions of texts with facing translations into English, including the College's medieval statutes, and documents about its early buildings; the second deals with medieval deeds relating to the College's properties in Oxfordshire, provided as calendars, since they are considerably more formulaic. The volume also includes full notes and an introduction. Robin Darwall-Smith is Archivist of Magdalen College; he has made extensive contributions to the history of both University College and Magdalen College.
Book Synopsis The University of Oxford by : L. W. B. Brockliss
Download or read book The University of Oxford written by L. W. B. Brockliss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh and readable account gives a complete history of the University of Oxford, from its beginnings in the 11th century to the present day - charting Oxford's improbable rise from provincial backwater to modern meritocratic and secular university with an ever-growing commitment to new research.
Download or read book Unbuilt Oxford written by Howard Colvin and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows and describes the plans for museums, college buildings, and apartments suggested, but never built, and discusses how they would have fit into Oxford's great architectural setting
Book Synopsis The History of the University of Oxford: Volume VII: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 2 by : M. G. Brock
Download or read book The History of the University of Oxford: Volume VII: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 2 written by M. G. Brock and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2000-11-16 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VII of The History of the University of Oxford completes the survey of nineteenth-century Oxford begun in Volume VI. After 1871 both teachers and students at Oxford were freed from tests of religious belief. The volume describes the changed mental climate in which some dons sought a new basis for morality, while many undergraduates found a compelling ideal in the ethic of public service both at home and in the empire. As the existing colleges were revitalized, and new ones founded, the academic profession in Oxford developed a peculiarly local form, centred upon college tutors who stood in somewhat uneasy relation with the University's professors. The various disciplines which came to form the undergraduate curriculum in both the arts and sciences are subject to major reappraisal; and Oxford's 'hidden curriculum' is explored through accounts of student life and institutions, including organized sport and the Oxford Union. New light is shed on the social origins and previous schooling of undergraduates. A fresh assessment is made of the movement to establish women's higher education in Oxford, and the strategies adopted by its promoters to implant communities for women within the masculine culture of an ancient university. Other widened horizons are traced in accounts of the University's engagement with imperial expansion, social reform, and the educational aspirations of the labour movement, as well as the transformation of its press into a major international publisher. The architectural developments–considerable in quantity and highly varied in quality–receive critical appraisal in a comprehensive survey of the whole period covered by Volumes VI and VII (1800-1914). By the early twentieth century the challenges of socialism and democracy, together with the demand for national efficiency, gave rise to a renewed campaign to address issues such as promoting research, abolishing compulsory Greek, and, more generally, broadening access to the University. Under the terrible test of the First World War, still more deep-seated concerns were raised about the sider effects of Oxford's educational practices; and the volume concludes with some reflections on the directions which the University had taken over the previous fifty years. series blurb No private institutions have exerted so profound an influence on national life over the centuries as the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Few universities in the world have matched their intellectual distinction, and none has evolved and maintained over so long a period a strictly comparable collegiate structure. Now a completely new and full-scale History of the University of Oxford, from its obscure origins in the twelfth century until the late twentieth century, has been produced by the university with the active support of its constituent colleges. Drawing on extensive original research as well as on the centuries-old tradition of the study of the rich source material, the History is altogether comprehensive, appearing in eight chronologically arranged volumes. Together the volumes constitute a coherent overall study; yet each has a unity of its own, under individual editorship, and brings together the work of leading scholars in the history of every university discipline, and of its social, institutional, economic, and political development as well as its impact on national and international life. The result is a history not only more authoritative than any previously produced for Oxford, but more ambitious than any undertaken for any other European university, and certain to endure for many generations to come.
Book Synopsis A History of Pembroke College, Oxford, Anciently Broadgates Hall by : Douglas Macleane
Download or read book A History of Pembroke College, Oxford, Anciently Broadgates Hall written by Douglas Macleane and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Account Rolls of University College Oxford: 1471 by : University College (University of Oxford)
Download or read book Account Rolls of University College Oxford: 1471 written by University College (University of Oxford) and published by Oxford Historical Society New. This book was released on 1999 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Book Synopsis A History of Merton College, Oxford by : Geoffrey Haward Martin
Download or read book A History of Merton College, Oxford written by Geoffrey Haward Martin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1264, Merton College was the first self-governing college in Oxford and the model for all the historic colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. This history also covers the development of the college library and the impact of John Wyclif.
Book Synopsis Corpus Christi College, Oxford by : T. M. Charles-Edwards
Download or read book Corpus Christi College, Oxford written by T. M. Charles-Edwards and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corpus Christi College, Oxford, is 500 years old in March 2017. This book is the first history of the College in over a century and covers the full chronological range from its foundation by Richard Fox in pre-Reformation Oxford to the present day. Corpus Christi was founded with self-consciously high intellectual ambitions in the Renaissance and, although it has sustained those ambitions better at some periods than at others, its intellectual pedigree has remained a constructive challenge throughout its history. Many of the great changes of English history from the sixteenth century onwards; the Reformation, the Civil War, the Glorious Revolution; have had their repercussions and sometimes their participants within the College. The book weaves the history of the College together with the strands of internal domestic history, intellectual history, and the political and religious history of England and Europe.
Book Synopsis The Early History of St. John's College, Oxford by : William Henry Stevenson
Download or read book The Early History of St. John's College, Oxford written by William Henry Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland by : Christopher Haigh
Download or read book The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland written by Christopher Haigh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-08-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Britain and Ireland is traditionally presented as a succession of dramatic changes, but in this reference work the 60 contributors under the editorship of Christopher Haigh have emphasized patterns of continuity instead, including cultural, social, political and economic themes. 300 illustrations.
Book Synopsis New College School, Oxford by : Matthew Jenkinson
Download or read book New College School, Oxford written by Matthew Jenkinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New College School is one of the oldest continually functioning schools in the United Kingdom and, indeed, the world. It was founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, to provide choristers for the chapel of New College, Oxford. Since then the School has had a peripatetic existence, occupying prime locations in the centre of a beautiful university city. Its pupils have witnessed centuries of dramatic history, including being inspected by Tudor monarchs during the Reformation and being forced out of their schoolroom during the English Civil War. The School has also grown over the centuries to include many more boys than those of the original choral foundation, educating and preparing them all for distinguished careers and fulfilled lives.
Book Synopsis Founders and Fellowship by : John Robert Maddicott
Download or read book Founders and Fellowship written by John Robert Maddicott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of Exeter College, Oxford, from its first endowment by Walter Stapeldon, bishop of Exeter, in 1314 until the College's refoundation by Sir William Petre in the 1560s and the election of the zealously protestant Thomas Holland as head of the College in 1592, which brought Exeter's reputation as a fiercely catholic college to a definitive end. It is closely based on the sources, particularly the College's unpublished account rolls, and deals in detail with all aspects of College life during the period: the origins and careers of the fellows; books, studies and intellectual life; possessions and finances; the College site; the daily round, as reflected in the entertainment of visitors, relations with old members, the travels of the fellows, and the services held in the chapel; and the rise of the College's undergraduate population. The effects of the Reformation on the College are given particularly full treatment, and here, as at all points, the history of the College is related to the general history of the period, so that, for example, the effects of the Black Death and of the economic depression of the fifteenth century are seen in microcosm through the College's history. The richness of the sources has allowed Exeter's story to be told with a fullness not attempted in other comparable college histories and at the same time to be seen as part of the wider history of England.
