A History of University College, Oxford

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Av Robin Darwall-Smith, Oxford) Darwall-Smith, Robin (Archivist of University College and Magdalen College

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-06-19
Mått164 x 242 x 36 mm
Vikt1 294 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor646
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199284290

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Robin Darwall-Smith was an undergraduate and a postgraduate at University College, Oxford, before training as an archivist at Liverpool University. He has been Archivist of University College since 1993 and Archivist of Magdalen College since 1996. He has published many articles on aspects of both these Colleges' histories, as well as a two-volume edition of the medieval accounts of University College. In 2001 he helped produce a catalogue of the architectural drawings of Magdalen College. He is currently helping to write a history of Magdalen College, which should be published in 2008.

FOREWORD ; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; ILLUSTRATIONS, TABLES, AND MAPS ; ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS ; I. William of Durham and the Idea of a College: 1249-1280 ; II. A College takes shape: 1280-1361 ; III. Crisis: 1361-1411 ; IV. Medieval Equilibrium: 1411-1509 ; V. Life in a late-medieval College ; VI. Change within and Change without: 1509-1572 ; VII. Under the Chancellor's Gaze: 1572-1632 ; VIII. The Early Undergraduate College ; IX. Buildings and Benefactions, Civil War and Commonwealth: 1632-1660 ; X. The Rise and Fall of Obadiah Walker: 1660-1689 ; XI. The Era of Arthur Charlett: 1689-1722 ; XII. Storm and Calm: 1722-1764 ; XIII. Glory and Decline: 1764-1807 ; XIV. The Workings of a Georgian College ; XV. From Shelley's Oxford to Stanley's Oxford: 1808-1850 ; XVI. The College Transformed: 1850-1881 ; XVII. The 'D.O.C.': 1881-1914 ; XVIII. Preserving Continuity: 1914-1945 ; XIX. The College Renewed: 1945-1979 ; XX. 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 ; BIBLIOGRAPHY