Professor Roderick Floud is Provost of London Guildhall University. Dr. Sean Glynn is Senior Research Fellow in the department of Politics and Modern History, London Guildhall University.

• The establishment of higher education in London - a survey; higher education and the London economy 1830-1914; higher education in the London community; class and gender aspects of higher education in London - the origins of London Polytechnics; the city of London and higher education; the London County Council and higher education; the funding of higher education in London; the London polytechnics; teacher training in London; technical and scientific education in London; higher education and the visual arts in London.