Brewis, G;
Blaxland, S;
(2026)
Student London: A new history of higher education in the capital.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Students have formed a significant part of London’s population since the foundation of its first university in 1826 and Student London centres their experiences in the city's history. To tell the 200-year story of student life in the capital this book draws on a rich source base that ranges from institutional records to college magazines, court reports to secret service files, and many hundreds of student memoirs and oral histories. It offers a detailed examination of life at the original London University (known as University College London since 1836) alongside many other institutions that eventually joined with UCL. Student London captures a diverse range of higher education experiences across medical schools, teacher training colleges and specialist institutes. A sweeping history of an ever-changing city, the book engages in much greater depth with London’s imperial history than earlier studies of higher education. It examines students’ everyday lives, fees and funding, collegiate cultures, social and political engagement, physical and mental health, recreation, sports and leisure. In doing so, it charts changing student attitudes to class, race, gender, sex and sexuality across two centuries.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Student London: A new history of higher education in the capital |
| ISBN-13: | 9781806550166 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781806550166 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781806550166 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Authors, 2026 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Brewis, G. and Blaxland, S. 2026. Student London: A new history of higher education in the capital. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781806550166Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Students, London, education, history, universities, colleges, oral history, politics, protest, cities, empire, UCL, gender, race, migration, fees, finances, leisure, sport, culture, mental health, physical health, LGBTQ+ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10219952 |
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