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The Biography of an Oxford College
J. Mordaunt Crook
£75.00
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A History of University College, Oxford
Robin Darwall-Smith
640 pages
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18 colour plates; 80 black and white figures; 3 maps
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234x156mm
978-0-19-928429-0
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Hardback
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19 June 2008
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- The first new history of University College since 1902
- Comprehensively illustrated
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 present day. A College, however, is above all a community of people, and this book
considers all aspects of the College's history, from its servants through to its Fellows, to give some idea of what it has meant to be a member of University College down the centuries. This is also a tale of how wider events can be reflected in one small College, be it the effects of civil and world war, or of political and religious upheavals. Readers will encounter several of the College's most famous Old Members and Fellows, including Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson, Bill Clinton, Bob Hawke, Sir William Jones, C. S. Lewis, and Percy Shelley, but often it is the people now forgotten by posterity who may emerge as the most representative and lively witnesses of their own times.Readership: Scholars and students
of educational history, and universities in particular, social history, and architectural history
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Robin Darwall-Smith, Archivist of University College and Magdalen College, Oxford
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"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
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Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Illustrations, Tables, and Maps
Abbreviations and Conventions
I: William of Durham and the Idea of a College: 1249-1280
II: A College takes shape: 1280-1361
III: Crisis: 1361-1411
IV: Medieval Equilibrium: 1411-1509
V: Life in a late-medieval College
VI: Change within and Change without: 1509-1572
VII: Under the Chancellor's Gaze: 1572-1632
VIII: The Early Undergraduate College
IX: Buildings and Benefactions, Civil War and Commonwealth: 1632-1660
X: The Rise and Fall of Obadiah Walker: 1660-1689
XI: The Era of Arthur Charlett: 1689-1722
XII: Storm and Calm: 1722-1764
XIII: Glory and Decline: 1764-1807
XIV: The Workings of a Georgian College
XV: From Shelley's Oxford to Stanley's Oxford: 1808-1850
XVI: The College Transformed: 1850-1881
XVII: The 'D.O.C.': 1881-1914
XVIII: Preserving Continuity: 1914-1945
XIX: The College Renewed: 1945-1979
XX: Epilogue: 1979-2007
Appendix I: Masters of University College
Appendix II: Fellows of University College
Appendix III: Members of University College in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Appendix IV: Social Backgrounds of Members of University College, 1550-1807
Appendix V: Properties outside Oxford acquired by University College before 1850
Bibliography
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