Treasures From Ucl
by Gillian Furlong /
2015 / English / PDF
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The holdings in UCL Special Collections form one of the hidden treasures of UCL (University College London). These materials, their content and their provenance have a great deal to say about the history of the university. UCL is the third oldest university in England after Oxford and Cambridge. As such the collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives which UCL holds have a lot to tell us about the way modern universities and their syllabi developed from the beginning of the nineteenth century. The history of education in Bloomsbury has been brilliantly captured by Professor Rosemary Ashton in her book on Victorian Bloomsbury. Professor Ashton is Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature and an Honorary Fellow of UCL. Treasures from UCL complements this work by explaining in some detail h
