St John's College Cambridge: A History (Hardcover, New)

The first book to describe fully the foundations and development of St John's College Cambridge, highlighting the role its alumni have always played in the life of the nation. Within a generation of its foundation on the site of a decayed hospital at the behest of Lady Margaret Beaufort, England's queen mother, the College of St John the Evangelist had established itself as one of the kingdom's foremosteducational establishments: in the words of one notable contemporary, as 'an university within it selfe' indeed. And in the period thereafter - the years between 1511 and 1989, the period covered by the present volume - St John's has continued to provide its fair share of Prime Ministers and other politicians, bishops, Nobel laureates, artists, writers, and sporting heroes, as well as to irrigate the rich loam of the nation's history in all sorts of other unexpected ways and places. However, not until the organisation of the College's archives and records in the present generation has it been possible to describe in sufficient detail the full story of that progress and adequately to trace the College's development and achievements in recent centuries. The present history, the first since the early 1700s to provide a systematic and informed account of the subject, seeks to make good this historical defect. It is published as part of the celebration of the quincentenary of the College's foundation.

General

Imprint:	The Boydell Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2011
First published:	2011
Editors:	Peter A. Linehan
Contributors:	A J Boyd Hilton • A.M. Nicholls • Derek Beales • Peter A. Linehan • Peter Hennessy
Dimensions:	244 x 172 x 59mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	794
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84383-608-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84383-608-4
Barcode:	9781843836087

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