This is the first history in over a century of what is arguably Oxford's oldest College. As one of the few organizations in the UK whose history goes back so far, this is an account of the College from its origins over seven and a half centuries ago to the present day.
This is the first history in over a century of what is arguably Oxford's oldest College. As one of the few organizations in the UK whose history goes back so far, this is an account of the College from its origins over seven and a half centuries ago to the present day.
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.
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* 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
* 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
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