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Victorian Civic Universities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

David R. Jones*
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne

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Copyright © 1985 by History of Education Society 

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References

Notes

1. Engel, A.J., From Clergyman to Don: The Rise of the Academic Profession in Nineteenth Century Oxford (London, 1983).Google Scholar

2. Moodie, Graeme C., and Eustace, Rowland, Power and Authority in British Universities (London, 1974).Google Scholar

3. See, for example, “A Postscript on Self-Government in Civic Universities” in Ashby, Eric Technology and the Academics (London, 1959).Google Scholar

4. Berdahl, Robert O., British Universities and the State (Berkeley, California, 1959).Google Scholar

5. Gosden, P.H.J.H. and Taylor, A.J., Studies in the History of a University, 1874–1974 (Leeds, 1975).Google Scholar

6. Thompson, Joseph, The Owens College, Its Foundation and Growth and Connection with the Victoria University (Manchester, 1886).Google Scholar

7. Ringer, Fritz K., Education and Society in Modem Europe (Bloomington, Indiana, 1979); McClelland, Charles, State, Society and University in Germany, 1700–1914 (Cambridge, 1980); Hall, Peter Dobkin, The Organization of American Culture, 1700–1900 (New York, 1982); Sanderson, Michael, The Universities and British Industry (London, 1972).Google Scholar

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9. Pamphlet in the University of Liverpool Archives, marked: “A dozen copies of this pamphlet were distributed to each member of the Committee 26 March 1879.” Google Scholar

10. Of the colleges of the federal Victoria University, Manchester and Liverpool only saw science and technology class enrollments each 50% of total enrollments around 1890. See Jones, David R., “The Origins of Civic Universities: Manchester, Leeds, and Liverpool.” (Yale, Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, 1982), Ch. 4.Google Scholar

11. Roscoe founded a great university school of chemistry and also encouraged industrial links, e.g. as a founder of the Society of Chemical Industry (1880). See Kargon, R.H., Science in Victorian Manchester (Baltimore, 1977) and Thorpe, T.E., Roscoe (London, 1916).Google Scholar

12. Blainey, Geoffrey, A Centenary History of the University of Melbourne (Melbourne, 1957).Google Scholar