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Universities UK
- University of LondonThe University of London was established by royal charter on the 28th of November 1836, not as a place of teaching, but as an examining board.
- University of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge has stood in the English city of Cambridge since 1209, making it the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and…
- University of OxfordThe University of Oxford has been teaching students since at least 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest…
- King's College LondonKing's College London was born from a duel. In the early months of 1829, Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington and then Prime Minister of the United…
- Birkbeck, University of LondonOn the 11th of November 1823, a crowd of two thousand people gathered at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand. They listened as Dr.
- Middlesex UniversityMiddlesex University traces its origins to 1878, when a small teacher training college for women opened in Tottenham, north London.
- University of SouthamptonOn the 15th of October 1862, Prime Minister Lord Palmerston opened the Hartley Institute in a ceremony that exceeded any civic occasion the town had ever…
- University College LondonUniversity College London was founded on the 11th of February 1826 as a deliberate act of defiance against the Anglican establishment.
- University of KentThe University of Kent sits on 300 acres of parkland above the city of Canterbury, looking out over one of the most recognizable skylines in England.
- University of NottinghamOn the 30th of July 1881, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, formally opened a neo-gothic college building on Shakespeare Street in central Nottingham.
- London School of EconomicsThe London School of Economics and Political Science was born at a breakfast table. On the 4th of August 1894, Beatrice and Sidney Webb sat down with Louis…
- Queen's University BelfastQueen's University Belfast opened its doors in 1849 with 23 professors and 195 students gathered in a building designed by Sir Charles Lanyon, an…
- University of WarwickThe University of Warwick sits on the outskirts of Coventry, technically in neither the city nor the town whose name it carries.