Redbrick : a social and architectural history of Britain’s civic universities 1st Edition Whyte

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198716125
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198716129
• Author:  William Whyte 

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.

Table of contents:

I. 1783–1843

Prologue

1. New Universities for a New Century

2. The People and Places of the University of London

Conclusion

II. 1843–1880

Prologue

3. Experiments in Ireland and England

4. Building the Mid-Victorian University

Conclusion

III. 1880–1914

Prologue

5. The Making of a Modern University

6. Life in a Modern University

Conclusion

IV. 1914–1949

Prologue

7. Redbrick Attacked

8. Redbrick Inhabited

Conclusion

V. 1949–1973

Prologue

9. The Expansion of Redbrick

10. Buildings and Battles

Conclusion

VI. 1973–1997

Prologue

11. Reshaping Higher Education

12. Students and Staff

13. Towards a New Architecture?

Conclusion

14. Epilogue: Redbrick since 1997

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