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History of University College, Oxford
Robin Haydon Darwall-Smith
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Description for History of University College, Oxford
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 640 pages, 18 colour plates; 80 black and white figures; 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; AMK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1294.
University College, founded with a bequest from William of Durham in 1249, lays claim to be the oldest College endowment in Oxford or Cambridge, and this is its first full-length history for over a century. Drawing extensively on the College's archives, which have not been studied in detail for decades, and many other sources, Robin Darwall-Smith tells the story of University College afresh, from when it began life as a small College of just four Fellows, permitted only to study theology, through its many changes, not least when it began to accept undergraduates in the sixteenth century, down to the ... Read more
University College, founded with a bequest from William of Durham in 1249, lays claim to be the oldest College endowment in Oxford or Cambridge, and this is its first full-length history for over a century. Drawing extensively on the College's archives, which have not been studied in detail for decades, and many other sources, Robin Darwall-Smith tells the story of University College afresh, from when it began life as a small College of just four Fellows, permitted only to study theology, through its many changes, not least when it began to accept undergraduates in the sixteenth century, down to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
Number of Pages
646
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199284290
SKU
V9780199284290
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About Robin Haydon Darwall-Smith
Robin Darwall-Smith was an undergraduate and a postgraduate at University College, Oxford, before training as an archivist at Liverpool University. He has been Archivist of University College since 1993 and Archivist of Magdalen College since 1996. He has published many articles on aspects of both these Colleges' histories, as well as a two-volume edition of the medieval accounts of University ... Read more
Reviews for History of University College, Oxford
A history of the College which meshes with the other successful volumes of its kind, which illuminates soem parts of the history of the University, and will gratify current and old members.
J. Davies, English Historical Review
J. Davies, English Historical Review