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Redbrick - A social and architectural history of Britain's civic universities (Hardcover)
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Redbrick - A social and architectural history of Britain's civic universities (Hardcover)
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In the last two centuries Britain has experienced a revolution in
higher education, with the number of students rising from a few
hundred to several million. Yet the institutions that drove - and
still drive - this change have been all but ignored by historians.
Drawing on a decade's research, and based on work in dozens of
archives, many of them used for the very first time, this is the
first full-scale study of the civic universities - new institutions
in the nineteenth century reflecting the growth of major Victorian
cities in Britain, such as Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham -
for more than 50 years. Tracing their story from the 1780s until
the 2010s, it is an ambitious attempt to write the Redbrick
revolution back into history. William Whyte argues that these
institutions created a distinctive and influential conception of
the university - something that was embodied in their architecture
and expressed in the lives of their students and staff. It was this
Redbrick model that would shape their successors founded in the
twentieth century: ensuring that the normal university experience
in Britain is a Redbrick one. Using a vast range of previously
untapped sources, Redbrick is not just a new history, but a new
sort of university history: one that seeks to rescue the social and
architectural aspects of education from the disregard of previous
scholars, and thus provide the richest possible account of
university life. It will be of interest to students and scholars of
modern British history, to anyone who has ever attended university,
and to all those who want to understand how our higher education
system has developed - and how it may evolve in the future.
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