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Highfield Campus 100: the 21st century
And so we reach the final Special Collections blog looking at the development of the University over the last 100 years. As we moved into the new millennium, there was a change at the helm of the University with the … Continue reading
Highfield Campus 100: 1980-2000
As we get closer to the Highfield centenary we cover the last two ‘roller coaster’ decades of the twentieth century. The main issue confronting John Roberts, the new Vice-Chancellor when he arrived in the Autumn of 1979, was the anticipated … Continue reading
Highfield Campus 100: 1970s
“The University has been a happy place, despite the dashing of our hopes for improved financial support, and I am confident that it will remain so.” [Professor L.C.B. Gower, Vice-Chancellor, University of Southampton Annual Report 1972-3, pp.12-13.] Professor Lawrence Cecil … Continue reading
Highfield Campus 100: 1960s
And so we move to the “swinging sixties”, a decade of significant growth and expansion for the University. Projections made at the beginning of the 1960s were that Southampton would reach a total of 4,000 students by 1980. However, in 1963 … Continue reading
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Tagged Archaeology, Arts I, Arts II, Botany, Chamberlain Hall, Chemistry, Engineering, Faraday Tower, Frank Templeton Prince, Geoffrey Sims, geology, George Hutchinson, Graham Hill, HE, Highfield Campus, ISVR, Kenneth Mather, Lanchester, Mathematics, Modern Languages, Nuffield Theatre, Oceanography, Peter Evans, Philip Doak, Physics, Professor Donald Acheson, Professor John Raymont, Robbins Report, School Mathematics Project, Sir Basil Spence, Sixties, Tizard
Highfield Campus 100: 1950s
It’s a University! The 1950s saw the move for Southampton obtaining university status gain ground more rapidly than anticipated. In 1952 Southampton became the first university to be created in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, receiving its royal charter … Continue reading
Highfield Campus 100: 1920s
As we move into the 1920s, we find the University College settling into its new Highfield site. By 1922, we were home to a grand total of 350 students! In 1925, 32 of these students secured honours degrees, with 9 placed … Continue reading
Highfield Campus 100: 1919
Welcome to the first in the series of Special Collections blogs that chart the development of university life at the Highfield campus from 1919 onwards. The development at Highfield was part of an ambitious expansion plan by the University College of Southampton to … Continue reading
Celebrating new collections: Southampton University Officers Training Corps
The Special Collections has just acquired a small collection of material relating to the Southampton University Officers Training Corps providing additional information on the formation and workings of this Corps in the 1930s to 1951. The Southampton University Training Corps … Continue reading
![Men's football team, 1953-4 [photo_MS1_7_291_22_4]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50089268168_f26eed63ef_s.jpg "Men's football team, 1953-4 [photo_MS1_7_291_22_4]")
![Women's rowing team, 1961-2 [MS1_7_291_22_4]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50090079577_3b7acbde42_s.jpg "Women's rowing team, 1961-2 [MS1_7_291_22_4]")
![Men's rugby team, 1953-4 [MS1_7_291_22_4]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50089268523_4f2c587220_s.jpg "Men's rugby team, 1953-4 [MS1_7_291_22_4]")
![Women's hockey team, 1953-4 [MS1_7_291_22_4]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50090079692_28114e9c7d_s.jpg "Women's hockey team, 1953-4 [MS1_7_291_22_4]")
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