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College of Science & Engineering

College of Science & Engineering

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Category: History

The end of the first phase: King’s Buildings Union After the opening of Geology’s Grant Building, it would be some time before there were any other major academic building developments on the campus. The University Union had, however, been lobbying for a permanent building there since 1929, having spent seven years in the shared wooden […]

The expansion of The King’s Buildings campus in the 1920s and early 1930s took place against a general unease, both in educational institutions and the country as a whole. The Great War and its dislocations were still resonating throughout the population, and new political alliances and challenges were shaping Europe in unpredictable ways. The rise […]

The Great War had been over for less than a year, but the Government had already recognised several years earlier that the war effort had been hampered by a shortage of doctors, surgeons, scientists and engineers, a shortage that would only get worse with the growing realisation by the public and authorities that qualified men […]

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