Books in the History of the University of Cambridge series

This is the first volume of a four-part History of the University of Cambridge, under the general editorship of Professor C. N. L. Brooke, and the first volume on the medieval university as a whole to be published in over a century.

Volume IV of the History explores the fascinating developments in 'the federation' of the University 1870-1990, including the entry of women and the roles of religion and learning.

This volume brings to completion the four-volume A History of the University of Cambridge, and is a vital contribution to the academic history of the age. Special features of this volume relate it to social and political history, to Cambridge's architectural heritage, and to major intellectual developments.

College-university relationships, the role of examinations, the politics of curriculum: papers amplify the picture of developments in Cambridge during the century.

A new investigation into the nature and identity of the Church of England on the eve of the Civil War.

An examination of how academic colleges commemorated their patrons in a rich variety of ways.