Redbrick: A Social and Architectural History of Britain - Paperback NEW William

In the last two centuries Britain has experienced a revolution in higher education, with the number of students rising from a few hundred to several million.Yet the institutions that drove - and still drive - this change have been all but ignored by historians.Drawing on a decade's research, and based on work in dozens of archives, many of them used for the very first time, this is the first full-scale study of the civic universities - new institutions in the nineteenth century reflecting the growth of major Victorian cities in Britain, such as Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, York, and Durham - for more than 50 years.Tracing their story from the 1780s until the 2010s, it is an ambitious attempt to write the Redbrick revolution back into history.William Whyte argues that these institutions created a distinctive and influential conception of the university - something that was embodied in their architecture and expressed in the lives of their students and staff.It was this Redbrick mo