University of London

She arrived in London determined to study medicine so that she could serve as a field nurse during Garibaldi 's campaigns. She was refused entry to fourteen London hospitals. On 10 July 1856, a representative...

At her selective convent school school Carmel McBain is thrown closely together with Karina (child of East European immigrant parents), because they are the only two children at the school from poor homes beyond its...

It was dedicated to Queen Anne , wife of James I (who died on 2 March this year). It seems that this was to be printed as a pamphlet; one sample sheet survives in a...

After she was married she set out to educate herself in her husband's area of expertise: botany. She attended lectures given by John Lindley , first professor of botany at London University , and took...

From 1956 to 1960, LS taught Chinese literature at Nanyang University , and lived in both Singapore and London. She wrote and travelled, taking trips to Japan and Hong Kong. She spent...

Ruth Prawer received her MA (a degree which was then London's equivalent to the PhD) from London University as a member of Queen Mary College .

Ruth Prawer 's London MA thesis (in the days when London University offered no doctorate, and the MA degree, and thesis, was equal in weight to the PhDs of other universities) was on The Short...

Ruth Prawer enrolled to read for a BA in English at Queen Mary College , University of London , from which she went straight on to a graduate degree.

In this essay SJB focuses particularly on the January 1878 decision by the University of London to admit women to the study of medicine on equal terms with men. This decision, she writes, made on...

Kathleen Royds (later Innes) graduated from the University of London with a BA (Second Class Honours) in Modern Languages (English and German).

About 1910-11, she spent four terms studying under author and naturalist William Henry Hudson in a University Extension programme taught at Gresham College . She graduated from this course first in her class and was...

In 1826 HPBB founded the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and at about the same date played an instrumental role towards the founding of London University . He authored several critical and historical...

First inspired by Erwin Rohde 's book on Greek understandings of the afterlife, published in 1890, JEH now began to turn her research interests to pre-Olympian spiritual practices and expressions, particularly (but not exclusively) those...

BH was educated at Dresden in Germany, then at Cheltenham Ladies' College (a secondary school), Queen's College , and Bedford College . She graduated from London University with a BA in Arts, having studied...

This first version was printed at Plymouth for private circulation only, at the urging of A. P. Newton , a professor in imperial history at the University of London , who contributed an introduction. The...