Early Victorian Cambridge

This volume of Winstanley's acclaimed history of the University of Cambridge describes a period of great change and reform.

Denys Arthur Winstanley (Author)

9781108002288, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

480 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.7 kg

Denys Arthur Winstanley (1877–1947), was a Fellow of Trinity College from 1906 until his death. His work included four important books on the history of the University of Cambridge between 1750 and 1882. This volume describes the many reforms to the educational system made during the early Victorian period: changes in college and university statutes, reform of the examinations, the foundation of Downing College and of Regius Professorships. Adopting an episodic rather than chronological approach, he is able to tease out specific controversies of the period such as a contested change of Mastership in Trinity, or the struggle for power in the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate. The extensive historical research in this book means that it holds its value today as a reliable source of information for historians of education in the early nineteenth century.

1. The foundation of Downing College
2. A college election
3. Undergraduates in bonds
4. The attack on Heads of Houses
5. Christopher Wordsworth
6. The religious tests
7. Chancellors and High Stewards
8. Town and gown
9. Trouble at the Fitzwilliam
10. Internal reform
11. The Royal Commission
12. Between the two Commissions
13. Statute XLI and the three Regius Professorships
14. The Statutory Commission and the university
15. The Statutory Commissioners and Trinity College
16. Cambridge as it was
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]