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3 An engraving of the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), based on a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence. One of the founders of UCL, Campbell envisaged 'a great London university' open to the middle classes.
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From its foundation in 1826, UCL embraced a progressive and pioneering spirit. It was the first university in England to admit students regardless of religion and made higher education affordable and accessible to a much broader section of society. It was also effectively the first university to welcome women on equal terms with men. From the outse...
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... rooms: the Museum of Natural History to the left, the Library to the right and the Great Hall directly ahead. Lecture theatres of various sizes led off generous cloisters running to the impressive wings that contained further suites of rooms. In the event, shortage of money meant that Wilkins' splendid design was only partially carried out ( Fig. 1.13). Cockney College' or 'the radical indel College' were published in the ultra-Tory John Bull and other ...
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... who died in 1826, had no connection with the College himself. The Gallery was the work of Henry Crabb Robinson, an extraordinary gure who lived to be 91 in 1867, the friend of Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Hegel, Charles Lamb, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Blake, and of a good many students at UCL for some 30 years ( Fig. 3.13). Having studied at the university of Jena in Germany and been a correspondent for The Times in the Napoleonic Wars, Crabb Robinson worked as a barrister before retiring in 1828. In that year he bought a share in the College 'as a sort of debt to the cause of civil and religious liberty', and in his absence was elected to the Council in ...
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... rst ofcial political students' club at UCL, it won recognition only after a battle with the College authorities, evolving into one of the most active student societies in the run up to the Second World War (Fig. 6.13). In common with universities ...
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... to attempt the provision of self-catering houses for students, rst in Gordon Street and later in Bedford Way. But the long-term solution was to be found in purpose-built halls, and a series of extraordinary benefactions made the programme possible. The 'Anonymous Donor' provided for Ramsay Hall, the rst phase of which was opened in 1964 ( Fig. 7.13), and for Ifor Evans Hall, opened in ...
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... Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in Gray's Inn Road. By the mid-1980s the enlarged UCL contained over 7,000 students, of whom 3,000 were women. Fortunately the amalgamation of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School enabled its residence, opened in 1967, to become much needed student accommodation for UCL in the renamed Astor College (Fig. 8.13). Postgraduate numbers were also at record levels, accounting for nearly 30 per cent of all students at this ...
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UCL (University College London) strongly supports the implementation of Open Science policies and practices. The library has taken the lead in the university across all eight areas of Open Science: the Future of Scholarly Communication, the EOSC, FAIR data, Skills, Research Integrity, Rewards, Altmetrics, and Citizen Science. UCL has modified these themes slightly to better fit its academic requirements, developing ambitious programmes and services to support the change of culture which is required. From the future of scholarly publishing, with the formation of UCL Press as the UK's first fully open access university press, to research data management, rewards, research integrity and next-generation metrics, UCL has become a leader in Open Science. This chapter analyses the success of UCL to date, describes the challenges, shows the benefits, and indicates what future steps are being planned to deliver a culture where Open Science is the default, thus delivering on the prophecy of Mahatma Ghandi, one of UCL's most illustrious alumni, ‘The future depends on what you do today'.