The World of University College London, 1828-1978

Unpaginated but circa 150pp, profusely illustrated in black and white.  Glossy, illustrated stiff card covers.  8vo.  Covers are a little scuffed at edges,, rubbed and rounded on corners.  Internally a few minor signs of reading else neat. clean, bright and tight.  

A history of University College London issued to mark the college’s 150th anniversary.  It chronicles its institutional history from its foundation as a secular alternative to Oxford and Cambridge Universities, highlights its  role in pioneering non-sectarian education and the equal admission of women to higher education and provides an account of the architectural development of its buildings and campus, institutional governance shifts, academic expansion, war time destruction and reconstruction in the latter part of the 20th century.