tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post1833651013253626126..comments2024-03-27T16:39:43.522+00:00Comments on Liberal England: "The Stamford Oath": How Oxbridge's dominance was maintainedJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-33448931952740319172018-08-23T16:36:42.539+01:002018-08-23T16:36:42.539+01:00That's right, though it was eventually subsume...That's right, though it was eventually subsumed into the University of Manchester. I believe there was a move to have a Victoria University college in York, but it came to nothing.<br /><br />I took my O levels and A levels with the JMB, God bless it.Jonathan Calderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-61003033863334490942018-08-23T11:49:51.278+01:002018-08-23T11:49:51.278+01:00The Victoria University was a federal university w...The Victoria University was a federal university with colleges at Liverpool and Leeds as well as Manchester, which became the universities of those cities - 1904 in the case of Leeds. They continued for many years to have common entrance requirements: this was the origin of the Joint Matriculation Board - these three plus Sheffield and Birmingham - which was also a school examining board.Tom Barneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02318269661959002397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-34732455567910221062018-08-22T21:36:24.340+01:002018-08-22T21:36:24.340+01:00Thanks for that.
I did my first degree at York. T...Thanks for that.<br /><br />I did my first degree at York. There were attempts to found a university there in the 17th century, but it was not established until the 1960s.Jonathan Calderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-83991359429851596622018-08-22T17:06:56.575+01:002018-08-22T17:06:56.575+01:00I seem to remember David Willetts pointing this ou...I seem to remember David Willetts pointing this out on Peston on Sunday last year; he even got a "Geek of the Week" badge for it. Also University College London was founded in 1826 and King's College London in 1829. It was only in 1836 that they became the two founding colleges of the University of London, which is why I guess Durham likes to claim precedence.Laurence Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12022978799028708943noreply@blogger.com