The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford,England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096,making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation. It grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209,some academics fled north-east to Cambridge where they established what became the University of Cambridge. The two English ancient universities share many common features and are jointly referred to as Oxbridge.
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in London,England,and a member institution of the University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb,Beatrice Webb,Graham Wallas,and George Bernard Shaw,LSE joined the University of London in 1900 and established its first degree courses under the auspices of the university in 1901. LSE began awarding its degrees in its own name in 2008,prior to which it awarded degrees of the University of London. It became a university in its own right within the University of London in 2022.
Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth-oldest college of the university.
Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England,located on the banks of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks. The college is more formally known under its current royal charter as "The Principal and Fellows of the College of the Lady Margaret in the University of Oxford".
St Hilda's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college is named after the Anglo-Saxon saint Hilda of Whitby and was founded in 1893 as a hall for women;it remained a women's college until 2008. St Hilda's was the last single-sex college in the university as Somerville College had admitted men in 1994. The college now has almost equal numbers of men and women at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Kellogg College is a graduate-only constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1990 as Rewley House,Kellogg is the university's 36th college and the largest by number of students both full and part-time. Named for the Kellogg Foundation,as benefactor,the college hosts research centres including the Institute of Population Ageing and the Centre for Creative Writing. It is closely identified with lifelong learning at Oxford.
Keele University,officially known as the University of Keele,is a public research university in Keele,approximately three miles from Newcastle-under-Lyme,Staffordshire,England. Founded in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire,Keele was granted university status by Royal Charter in 1962.
Cambridge University Library is the main research library of the University of Cambridge. It is the largest of over 100 libraries within the university. The library is a major scholarly resource for members of the University of Cambridge and external researchers. It is often referred to within the university as the UL. Thirty-three faculty and departmental libraries are associated with the University Library for the purpose of central governance and administration,forming "Cambridge University Libraries".
The University of Oxford has thirty-nine colleges,and five permanent private halls (PPHs) of religious foundation. Colleges and PPHs are autonomous self-governing corporations within the university. These colleges are not only houses of residence,but have substantial responsibility for teaching undergraduate students. Generally tutorials and classes are the responsibility of colleges,while lectures,examinations,laboratories,and the central library are run by the university. Students normally have most of their tutorials in their own college,but often have a couple of modules taught at other colleges or even at faculties and departments. Most colleges take both graduates and undergraduates,but several are for graduates only.
Rosamond Deborah McKitterick is an English medieval historian. She is an authority on the Frankish kingdoms in the eighth and ninth centuries AD,who uses palaeographical and manuscript studies to illuminate aspects of the political,cultural,intellectual,religious,and social history of the Early Middle Ages. From 1999 until 2016 she was Professor of Medieval History and director of research at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and Professor Emerita of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge.
Hermann Maria Hauser,KBE,FRS,FREng,FInstP,CPhys is an Austrian entrepreneur,venture capitalist and inventor who is primarily associated with the Cambridge technology community in England.
Bettany Mary Hughes is an English historian,author and broadcaster,specialising in classical history. Her published books cover classical antiquity and myth,and the history of Istanbul. She is active in efforts to encourage the teaching of the classics in UK state schools. Hughes was appointed OBE in 2019.
Dame Carol Vivien Robinson,is a British chemist and former President of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2018–2020). She was a Royal Society Research Professor and is the Dr Lee's Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,and a Professorial Fellow at Exeter College,University of Oxford. She is the first director of the Kavli Institution for Nanoscience Discovery,University of Oxford,and she was previously Professor of Mass Spectrometry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cambridge.
SharmishtaChakrabarti,Baroness Chakrabarti,is a British politician,barrister,and human rights activist. A member of the Labour Party,she served as the director of Liberty,a major advocacy group which promotes civil liberties and human rights,from 2003 to 2016. From 2016 to 2020,she served as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales.
The Archdeacon of Exeter is a senior ecclesiastical officer of the Diocese of Exeter in the Church of England. The modern diocese is divided into four archdeaconries:the archdeacon of Exeter supervises clergy and buildings within the area of the Archdeaconry of Exeter.
Carla Diane Hayden is an American librarian and the 14th Librarian of Congress. Since the creation of the office of the Librarian of Congress in 1802,Hayden is both the first African American and the first woman to hold this post. Appointed in 2016,she is the first professional librarian to hold the post since 1974.
The University of Exeter is a public research university in Exeter,Devon,England,United Kingdom. Its predecessor institutions,St Luke's College,Exeter School of Science,Exeter School of Art,and the Camborne School of Mines were established in 1838,1855,1863,and 1888 respectively. These institutions later formed the University of Exeter after receiving its royal charter in 1955. In post-nominals,the University of Exeter is abbreviated as Exon.,and is the suffix given to honorary and academic degrees from the university.
Margaret Yvonne Busby,,Hon. FRSL,also known as Nana Akua Ackon,is a Ghanaian-born publisher,editor,writer and broadcaster,resident in the UK. She was Britain's youngest and first black female book publisher when she and Clive Allison (1944–2011) co-founded the London-based publishing house Allison and Busby in the 1960s. She edited the anthology Daughters of Africa (1992),and its 2019 follow-up New Daughters of Africa. She is a recipient of the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature. In 2020 she was voted one of the "100 Great Black Britons". In 2021,she was honoured with the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award.
Christopher Francis Rivers de Hamel is a British academic librarian and expert on mediaeval manuscripts. He is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College,Cambridge,and former Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library. His book Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is the winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for 2016 and the Wolfson History Prize for 2017.
The armorial of British universities is the collection of coats of arms of universities in the United Kingdom. Modern arms of universities began appearing in England around the middle of the 15th century,with Oxford's being possibly the oldest university arms in the world,being adopted around the end of the 14th century. The earliest granting of university arms was to King's College Cambridge by Henry VI in 1449. Arms are granted by the College of Arms and Lyon Court. It has been suggested that new universities register arms is an attempt to appear more traditional or legitimate. As corporations,older university arms have historically been granted without a crest,however newer institutions use crests with mantling,including new colleges at older universities. The first crest granted to a university was to Leeds in 1905 while the first British university to be granted supporters was Sussex in 1962,although both Oxford and Cambridge have used angels as supporters and Cambridge has used the 'alma mater' emblem as a crest without these components being officially granted.
