A History of University College, Oxford
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 June 2008
- ISBN 9780199284290
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages646 pages
- Size 242x164x36 mm
- Weight 1294 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 colour plates; 80 black and white figures; 3 maps 0
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Short description:
This is the first history in over a century of what is arguably Oxford's oldest College. As one of the few organizations in the UK whose history goes back so far, this is an account of the College from its origins over seven and a half centuries ago to the present day.
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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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Illustrations, Tables, and Maps
Abbreviations and Conventions
William of Durham and the Idea of a College: 1249-1280
A College takes shape: 1280-1361
Crisis: 1361-1411
Medieval Equilibrium: 1411-1509
Life in a late-medieval College
Change within and Change without: 1509-1572
Under the Chancellor's Gaze: 1572-1632
The Early Undergraduate College
Buildings and Benefactions, Civil War and Commonwealth: 1632-1660
The Rise and Fall of Obadiah Walker: 1660-1689
The Era of Arthur Charlett: 1689-1722
Storm and Calm: 1722-1764
Glory and Decline: 1764-1807
The Workings of a Georgian College
From Shelley's Oxford to Stanley's Oxford: 1808-1850
The College Transformed: 1850-1881
The 'D.O.C.': 1881-1914
Preserving Continuity: 1914-1945
The College Renewed: 1945-1979
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
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