Early Victorian Cambridge [Paperback]

This volume of Winstanley's acclaimed history of the University of Cambridge describes a period of great change and reform.The first historian to gain access to the papers of Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University as well as contemporary correspondence and diaries, Winstanley provides an admirably detailed portrait of the workings of the university between 1800 and 1860.The first historian to gain access to the papers of Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University as well as contemporary correspondence and diaries, Winstanley provides an admirably detailed portrait of the workings of the university between 1800 and 1860.Denys Arthur Winstanley (18771947), 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. Cambridgel³U