Universities Collection (#39)

Student at Trinity College, Cambridge University
Student tidying up his bed in his room at Trinity College, Cambridge University. Date: 1967

Trinity College Library, Cambridge University, designed and built by Sir Christopher Wren. The books in this part of the library date from the 8th century AD to 1830. Date: 1967

Aerial view, Trinity College, Cambridge University
Aerial view of Trinity College, Cambridge University. Date: 1967

Refectory at Trinity College, Cambridge University
View of the top table in the refectory at Trinity College, Cambridge University, with professors coming and going. A large portrait of Henry VIII looms over them. Date: 1967

University Sports - Oxford and Cambridge
Page from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News depicting various Sports at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, such as long jump, mile race, shot put, quarter mile and three miles race

New buildings of London University, Burlington Gardens 1870
Front view of the new buildings of the London University in Burlington Gardens, opened by Queen Victoria in May 1870. Date: 1870

Practical joke in university town, c. 1820
Students at Oxford or Cambridge play a practical joke on their professors by stretching a rope across a staircase and tripping them up, c.1820 Date: C.1820

Missionary home for boys, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Missionary home for boys at Zanzibar, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). It was run by a British charity, the Universities Mission to Central Africa. Date: circa 1910

Mbweni Girls School, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Mbweni Girls School at Zanzibar, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). It was run by a British charity, the Universities Mission to Central Africa. Date: circa 1910

Oxford University under arms, instruction in knot tying
Members of the Officers Training Corps at Oxford University pictured being instructed in knot tying in 1915. Date: 1915

Oxford University robes: Bachelor of Music
A Bachelor of Music at Oxford University sporting a mortarboard and long, black gown with white fur hood. Date: 1920s

Oxford University robes: Doctor of Music (full dress)
A Doctor of Music at Oxford University sporting a mortarboard and long, red gown. Date: 1920s

Coats of arms of colleges at Oxford University Date: 1920s

Attorney law teaching at the University of Bologna. Statutes of notaries. Renaissance art. Miniature Painting

Mensa scrutiniorum (scrutiny table), 18th-19th c. It was made for receiving the professor election in the Cervera University. SPAIN. CATALONIA. LLEIDA. Cervera. Cervera Museum

BELLO, Andr鳠(1781-1864). Venezuelan writer, poet
BELLO, Andr鳠 (1781-1864). Venezuelan writer, poet, journalist and humanist. Oil

Oxford Blues who had joined up, WW1
Spread of 76 portraits and key showing sporting Blues from Oxford University who had joined up during the First World War

Cambridge University sportsmen during WW1
A spread from The Sketch magazine featuring 76 portraits of Cambridge Blues who had joined up during the First World War. The Sketch comments that

Tatler front cover, New Universities 1964
Helen and Catherine Jay, the twin daughters of Labour MP Mr Douglas Jay pose in the grounds of the University of Sussex, one of a number of new campus universities opening in the 1960s

Souvenir of the Royal Visit of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to open the University of Sheffield, 1905
Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 422 (b) VL

Source Size = 3911 x 2519
Dinner Given by the Inns of Court Volunteers to the Universities Corps, 1868

Source Size = 3912 x 2914
The Universities Boat Race on the Thames: Weighing the Crew, 1874

Oxford and Cambridge Universities Boat Race: the Start from Putney, London, Uk, 1869

Allegorical composition representing the different degrees of university teaching
KW348190 Allegorical composition representing the different degrees of university teaching, facsimile illustration of a wood engraving from the Margarita Philosophica by Gregor Reisch

Allegory of the student unions, 1830, print maker: Abraham Vinkeles, print maker: Beijer, 1830 - 1831

State University of Music and Performing Arts, architect James Stirling, Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe

Varsity hockey at Beckenham, Left A J Carpenter ( Oxford ) and his brother F W Carpenter ( Cambridge ) 18 Februaray 1928

View of tidal river with footbridge and university building shrouded in mist at sunrise, Newport City Footbridge, River Usk, Newport, South Wales, Wales, October

Lyon Playfair (1819-1898) in 1885 when President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Scottish chemist and politician

Lyon Playfair (1818-1898) Scottish chemist and politician, in the chair as Deputy Speaker of the Commons during a late night session

Charles Frederick MacKenzie (1825-62) Anglican Bishop of Central Africa (1861), leader of the Universities Mission, preaching to African children. From Edwin Hodder Heroes of Britain London c1880

Jan Gruter (Gruytere, Gruterus) (1560-1627). Belgian-born classical scholar. Held various professorships including at Wittenberg and Heidelberg universities. Mezzotint

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) three chicks, at nest on city university building, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, May

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) chick, held by Wildlife Trust volunteer, from nest on city university building, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, May

St. Salvators Hall College entrance, St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

University Library and statue of King Carol I, Bucharest, Romania, Europe

Henry B. Plant Museum, University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, North America

Natural History Museum, Oporto University, Oporto, Portugal, Europe

Paris University school of Medicine
L Ecole de Medicine, part of the Paris University Date: circa 1829

Punting on The Backs, River Cam, Clare College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

University of Sunderland National Glass Centre, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Glass Walkway, University of Sunderland National Glass Centre, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Fountain at the Athens University, Athens, Greece, Europe

Trinity College Library, Cambridge, designed and built by Sir Christopher Wren. Date: 1960s

University, Old Town, Wroclaw, Silesia, Poland, Europe

Clare College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Close-up of 13th and 14th century stained glass windows of saint with kneeling patrons, Merton College Chapel, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Aerial view over All Souls College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

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