The World of UCL, 1828-1990 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World of UCL, 1828-1990 write by Negley Harte. This book was released on 1991. The World of UCL, 1828-1990 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This splendid illustrated history of University College London (UCL) has been fully revised and updated, since its first publication in 1978 as part of the celebrations of the College's 150th anniversary.
Redbrick
Redbrick - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Redbrick write by William Whyte. This book was released on 2016-08-11. Redbrick available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, Birmingham, York, and Durham - 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.
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge write by Rosemary Ashton. This book was released on 1998-01-06. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rosemary Ashton explores the many facets of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's complex personality, by turns poet, critic, thinker, enchanting companion, feckless husband, fabled conversationalist and guilt-ridden opium addict.
Thomas And Jane Carlyle
Thomas And Jane Carlyle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas And Jane Carlyle write by Rosemary Ashton. This book was released on 2012-03-31. Thomas And Jane Carlyle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. They were the most remarkable couple in London: the great sage Carlyle, with his vehement prophecies, and his witty, sardonic wife Jane. It was a strong, close, mutually admiring yet often mutually antagonistic partnership, fascinating to all who observed it. The Carlyles lived at the heart of English life in mid-Victorian London, but both were outsiders, a largely self-educated Scottish pair who took a sometimes caustic look at the society they so influenced - Carlyle through his copious writings, and both through their network of acquaintances and correspondents. Carlyle's fame was confirmed by his Sartor Resartus of 1843, The French Revolution, his lectures on heroes and hero-worship and by his radical account of contemporary industrial Britain in Past and Present, 1843. Both husband and wife were great letter-writers, Carlyle commenting on the matters of the day, dashing off pen portraits of those he met and Jane with her brilliant stories and her sharp, dry humour. Yet despite her brilliance, Jane suffered, especially from Carlyle's infatuation with the lion-hunting Lady Ashburton, and the tensions in their marriage grew. The letters they wrote, both to each other and to others, make theirs the most well-documented marriage of the nineteenth century and give us an unequalled portrait of a famously unhappy marriage. This moving and vivid biography describes their relationship with each other, from their first meeting in 1821 to Jane's death in 1866, and also their relationship with the world outside. Rosemary Ashton's inimitable blend of rigorous scholarship, warm sensitivity and lively wit makes this not only a portrait of a marriage but a picture of a whole age, elegant, erudite and entertaining.
Generations of Reason
Generations of Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Generations of Reason write by Joan L. Richards. This book was released on 2021-10-26. Generations of Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An intimate, accessible history of British intellectual development across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the story of one family This book recounts the story of three Cambridge-educated Englishmen and the women with whom they chose to share their commitment to reason in all parts of their lives. The reason this family embraced was an essentially human power with the potential to generate true insight into all aspects of the world. In exploring the ways reason permeated three generations of English experience, this book casts new light on key developments in English cultural and political history, from the religious conformism of the eighteenth century through the Napoleonic era into the Industrial Revolution and prosperity of the Victorian age. At the same time, it restores the rich world of the essentially meditative, rational sciences of theology, astronomy, mathematics, and logic to their proper place in the English intellectual landscape. Following the development of their views over the course of an eventful one hundred years of English history illuminates the fine structure of ways reason still operates in our world.
