The University of Oxford: a new history
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Main Author: Evans, G. R., (Gillian Rosemary) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London I.B. Tauris 2010
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-348) and index
Towards Oxford today. Not an inkling of the future? ; Riding out the First World War ; Oxford takes the state's penny ; Letting women in : 1920 and after ; Between the wars ; The Second World War and its aftermath ; A symposium at Worcester : the 1950s to the 1980s ; From student protest to the battle for academic freedom ; The 1990s and the beginning of another Oxford century -- Oxford's middle ages. Oxford from the inside : inventing a university ; Designing a syllabus ; Housing the scholars ; Quarrels and confrontations -- Oxford and the interfering Tudors. Renaissance in Oxford ; Reformation in Oxford ; Consequences for the colleges ; Another inspection : Edward VI goes "visiting" ; Mary Tudor's visitors : the volte-face ; Elizabeth places Oxford under the statutes of the realm ; Teaching the arts from the late sixteenth century -- Oxford keeps up with the times. Oxford and the state ; A society of scholars : student life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ; Independent intellectuals and new styles of academic life ; Teaching : the changing intellectual life of Oxford ; Experiments in collegiate life and new ideas about universities ; The Bodleian Library and the university press -- The nineteenth-century transformation. Varieties of student life at Oxford ; The Oxford Movement ; State interference and the threat of external "reform" brings about major change ; What became of the liberal arts? ; Bringing the syllabus up to date : the Oxford reform of classical education ; Oxford studies the science ; Examinations reformed ; Oxford does its bit for social mobility
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 356 p., [16] p. of plates)
ISBN:144167876X
1848851146
9781441678768
9781848851146

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