CAMBRIDGE COMMEMORATED: AN ANTHOLOGY OF UNIVERSITY LIFE
Written by Laurence Fowler, Helen Fowler
Published by Cambridge University Press
in 1984
ISBN: 0521257433
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CAMBRIDGE COMMEMORATED: AN ANTHOLOGY OF UNIVERSITY LIFE
Written by Laurence Fowler, Helen Fowler.
Stock no. 1831190
1st.
1984.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The daily lives of dons and students, town and gown relations, change and continuity are unfolded in letters, diaries, memoirs, novels, college records, newspapers and magazine articles. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 384 pages including index. ISBN: 0521257433. Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light page edge browning else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned and lightly edge-creased.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations and sources
- Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh
- Preface
- Note on the texts
- The beginnings: dreaming chroniclers and sundry facts
- Benefactors and the growth of the 'little Commonwealth' of colleges
- Protestants - the New Learning, Elizabethans and Puritans
- The Civil War: the garrison town
- Restoration, refulgence and rebellion
- The eighteenth century: was reason sleeping?
- The turning century: giants in the groves
- Victoriana
- The twentieth century: a sunny world
- The twentieth century: wars, aftermaths and omens
- The modern University
- Appendix 1. List of colleges, foundations and societies which have been given 'approved' status by the University since 1596
- Appendix 2. Undergraduate numbers by subject, 1982
- Acknowledgements
- Index of writers and major characters