Short answers, pulled from the story.
The foundation stone of University College Nottingham was laid in 1877 by former Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. This event marked a pivotal moment for higher education in the East Midlands.
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany formally opened the college's neo-gothic building on Shakespeare Street on the 30th of July 1881. That same autumn the college admitted its first students to begin their studies.
Sir Jesse Boot presented land to create the new campus known as University Park which was completed in 1928. The university moved from the centre of Nottingham to this large campus on the city's outskirts during significant expansion in the 1920s.
University of Nottingham established its first international campus in Malaysia in 2000 before moving it to Semenyih south of Kuala Lumpur in 2005. The second international campus opened in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China in 2004 and was officially opened by John Prescott in February 2006.
In November 2025 the university announced that it would permanently suspend 16 courses including all modern language and music courses for new students due to an operating deficit of £17.9 million. By January 2025 the institution also planned to sell its King's Meadow Campus and Castle Meadow Campus citing significant financial challenges.