I'm taking a break for a week from posting daily #HigherEducationPostcard - back soon!

May still post other stuff - depends on how things sit!

Here’s a #postcard showing the #Rajabai Clock Tower of the University of #Mumbai

This was modelled on the Palace of Westminster, London, and designed by George Gilbert Scott. It is part of a #UNESCO World heritage Site and houses the University Library. It was paid for by Premchand Roychand, a Mumbai magnate, and named in honour of his mother

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Here’s a #postcard showing Bob Jones University. Founded in Florida in 1927 as Bob Jones College, it moved to Tennessee in 1933 and then to South Carolina in 1947, becoming bob Jones University. The first three presidents were Bob Jones, Bob Jones Jr and Bob Jones III

I both want and don't want to google Unusual Films ...

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Here’s a #postcard showing the University of Missouri’s research reactor. #Missouri was founded in 1839, and is known as #Mizzou

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Here’s a #postcard showing Gordon’s College, #Aberdeen. #RobertGordon was a successful merchant who in 1750 founded a hospital to give poor boys a good start in life. This became Robert Gordon’s College in 1881 and a University in 1992

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Here’s a #postcard showing the University of #Birmingham. This was the original site of the university, as it grew from Mason College. The buildings are no longer here – demolished in the 1960s when the university had completed its move to Edgbaston

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Here’s a #postcard showing #Brasenose College, #Oxford

The name is thought to come from a door knocker, still in the College’s possession, in the shape of an animal’s nose. It was founded on the site of Brasenose Hall, which existed since at least 1279

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Here’s a #postcard showing #Tottenham Polytechnic. This is now part of the College of North East London.

The card shows Grove House, on Tottenham Green, which the Poly occupied from 1897 til 1936, when it was demolished. The Poly became Tottenham Technical College at that time

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Here’s a #postcard showing the #Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or #MIT

Founded in 1861, MIT is a private land-grant university. This means that the federal government granted land to the university as an endowment, giving it resources to enable it to thrive. And MIT does seem to have thrived …

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Here’s a #postcard showing the Free University of Bruxelles, founded in 1834. The image shows the Granvelle Palace, its home between 1842 and 1928, after which it was demolished

The University split in 1970 on linguistic lines: its successors are the French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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Here’s a #postcard showing the interior of the Wills Memorial Building, University of #Bristol

This is in the tower, construction of which started in 1915, paused in 1916 because of the world war, and then restarted in 1919, being completed in 1925. It is absolutely not a medieval as it looks.

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Here’s a #postcard showing #Keble College, #Oxford

Keble College was founded in 1870 as a memorial to John Keble, doyenne of the Oxford movement which sought to make the Church of England a bit more Catholicky. (Yes, I know, this is a *very* inadequate summary of their beliefs.)

Monty Python fans may also remember Keble Bollege Oxford

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Here’s a #postcard showing #Wolverhampton Technical College, which later became Wolverhampton University

The Technical College grew out of Wolverhampton Tradesmen's and Mechanics' Institute and the Wolverhampton Free Library. The building on the card dates from 1931

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Here’s a #postcard showing the Training College Swansea, now part of University of Wales Trinity St David’s. This building, in Townhill, is now being repurposed for housing

The perforated miniature on the left is a stub which the sender could use to record who they sent the card to. An innovation presumably connected to the postcard-collecting craze of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

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Here's a #postcard showing University College #Cork

Founded in 1845 as one of three colleges of the Queen's University of #Ireland (the others were Belfast and Galway), Cork became University College Cork in 1908

Its motto is "Where Finbarr taught, let Munster learn"; this references Saint Finbarr, patron saint of Cork

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Here’s a #postcard showing #Lanchester College of Technology. Now part of #Coventry University, the name comes from Frederick Lanchester, automobile engineer and manufacturer. But, the name proved confusing (is it a typo for Lancaster or Manchester?) so Lanchester had to go

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Here’s a #postcard showing the University of #Sheffield, commemorating the royal opening of the University on 12 July 1905

The King was Edward VII, the Queen was Alexandra, and there’s a film of the visit!

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-king-edward-vii-opens-sheffield-university-1905-online

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Here’s a #postcard showing Chelsea Polytechnic. The card is likely from the 1930s. Does it look like a mixed-sex class? Very progressive, if so. In my comprehensive school in the 1980s cookery and needlework were very much for the girls, metalwork and woodwork for the boys

Art was a neutral zone. At least in this respect.

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Here’s a #postcard showing the University of #Glasgow

The fishes on the crest are those of St Mungo, who magically caused Queen Languoreth’s wedding ring to be inside a fish, to save her from the wrath of her jealous husband, King Riderch, who had set her up. This may be a retelling of a similar legend relating to King Maelgwn and St Asaph in Gwynedd. Allt Clud – Strathclyde – was also an ancient Cymric kingdom

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Here's a #postcard showing the University of #Newcastle upon Tyne, back when it was #ArmstrongCollege

This is the Arches, just by the Students' Union. I think the low building joining the gateway to the front left has now gone, the larger (darker stone) one behind to the left - part of the original Armstrong College building - is still there

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