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Today is St Frideswide's day, and so #HigherEducationPostcard shows #ChristChurch #Oxford

#Frideswide, or Frithuswith, a Mercian sub-king's daughter, is patron saint of the city and the university, and Christ Church is reputedly built on the site of the monastery founded by her in the seventh or eighth centuries

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Here's my #HigherEducationPostcard blog on @Wonkhe today, about the University of the Highlands and Islands

Contains a bonus second #postcard ...

https://wonkhe.com/blogs/higher-education-postcard-university-of-the-highlands-and-islands/

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 #Exeter College, Oxford, and two other university buildings: the #Sheldonian Theatre (the round one) and the #Clarendon building (the classical one at the rear)

The Clarendon used to be the University Registry but is now part of the #Bodleian Library

Quiz time: how many of the cars can you name?

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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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Here’s a #postcard showing the Cardiff College of Education at #Cyncoed; now part of #CardiffMetropolitanUniversity

The Cyncoed campus dates from 1962; these buildings are still there. The Cyncoed campus also hosts some fabulous sports facilities

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Here’s a #postcard showing three aspects of #Oxford University. To the left the views show #Magdalen College (top) and #ChristChurch College (lower). The arms are those of #Merton College, and derive from the founder Walter de Merton, and Rochester, of which he was bishop

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Here’s a #postcard showing #Magee College. This was established in #Derry / #Londonderry in 1865 as a Presbyterian College teaching theology and arts, and has been secular since 1953. Associated over the years with many of Ireland’s universities, in 1969 it became part of the New University of Ulster, which in 1984 became #UlsterUniversity

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Here’s a #postcard showing the now defunct Wye College, University of London. Based in medieval buildings used for education since 1447, the college was founded in 1894. It merged with Imperial College in 2000, but this did not work out well, and teaching at the site stopped in 2009

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@purplepadma Morning! Hope your day goes well. I'm hoping to write a couple of #HigherEducationPostcard blogs today and then take Freya dog for a walk ...

Here’s a #postcard showing the University of #York. This is the yew garden by Heslington Hall, and the sculpture to the left is Reclining Connected Forms by #HenryMoore, cast in 1969. I think the buildings to the rear are #Derwent College.

This spot now hosts Dryad by Austin Wright. I’m guessing the Moore went to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

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Here’s a #postcard showing the University of #Essex at night. The lights in the distance are Colchester. Founded by the Roman’s and called #Camulodunum, it claims to be Britain’s first capital city

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@OldPostcards Wonderful!

If you look at the #HigherEducationPostcard hashtag here or on twitter you'll find many other cards from my collection; and also at https://wonkhe.com/tag/postcards/ where I've been writing postcard-based blogs for a couple of years now

Here's a #postcard showing #Lancaster University

Lancaster was established in 1964 as one of seven new greenfield universities (along with Sussex, Essex, UEA, Warwick, York and Kent). Its is just south of Lancaster, in Bailrigg, and is bounded to the east by the M6 and the west by the A6

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Here's a #postcard with a bird's eye view of #Liverpool University

Issued in the 1920s as the university sought to expand, I don't know how many of the planned buildings actually made it

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Here’s a #postcard showing Aberystwyth University

This is the original building, which the University still owns, and is fundraising to help with its recommissioning. The main university campus is now up the hill, by the National Library.

On a rough day this view would mostly be huge waves and sea spray: it’s a town for those who like dramatic sea

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Here’s a #postcard showing the Lovell telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory. This is part of the University of Manchester

The telescope was built in 1957, and has been grade I listed since 1988. It is still operational. By design, peregrine falcons nest in the support towers, keeping the telescope free of pigeons, which would interfere with its readings

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Here's a #postcard showing the the Glasgow University Pageant

I have no more information than this to share, so if anyone can say what was going on, I'd very much appreciate it!

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Here's a #postcard showing the original home of #Cardiff University - this is the old old infirmary on Newport road (not the old one which still there, but the old old one which isn't there any more)

The university was based here from 1883 until it moved to Cathays Park some time early in C20

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Here's a #postcard showing two of the ancient buildings of #Aberdeen University

King's College was founded in 1495; Marischal College in 1593. They were united as the King Charles' University in 1641, but this union did not survive the Commonwealth. They were finally united in 1860 as Aberdeen University, this union also incorporating Christ's College

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Continuing the #HigherEducationPostcard virtual world tour, here's a #postcard of the National University of #Singapore

Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, it merged in 1949 with Raffles College (1928) to create the University of Malaya. In 1962 it became the University of Singapore, and in 1980 it merged again with Nanyang University (1955) to become the National University of Singapore

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My #HigherEducationPostcard virtual world tour continues, with this #postcard of Kyushu University

Kyushu was one of the seven Imperial universities founded in the late C19 and early C20; in Kyushu's case, 1911

The card shows the medical school. The University is located in Fukuoka; Kyushu is the most southerly of Japan's large islands

Alumni include Hsu Shih-hsien (1908-1983), the first Taiwanese woman to earn a doctorate

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Here's a #postcard of St Hugh's College, Oxford

Baroness Heather Hallett, who chairs the UK's covid inquiry, studied here. Today there's a stand off between the inquiry and the government about unrestricted access to information. I hope, for the sake of good governance and public life, that the baroness wins.

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Today is John Prescott's 85th birthday. He was deputy PM under Toney Blair. Although brought up in Yorkshire, he was born in Prestatyn, to a Welsh mother.

So firstly, Penblwydd hapus, John

And secondly, here's a #postcard of Ruskin College Oxford, the trades union college, at which he studied

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