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New College, Durham, or Durham College, was a university institution set up by Oliver Cromwell, to provide an alternative to (and break the effective monopoly of) the older University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. It also had the aim of bringing university education to Northern England.
In 1657, during the Commonwealth, letters patent had been issued in response to a succession of petitions from the inhabitants of County Durham to establish a college, school or academy for the Northern Counties in Durham.
Jun 27, 2024 · The universities had expressed a similar desire to maintain their monopoly of higher education when a new university at Durham was proposed in 1657. Wilkins and Ward had opposed the radicals' desire to proliferate universities in the 1650s, and Wallis headed the Oxford opposition against the Durham scheme.
The shiny new development in the centre of the photo is Neville's Cross College, which opened in 1921. It was built by Durham County Council and operated as a women-only teacher training college until 1963.
New College Durham is a further and higher education college and a sixth form college in County Durham, England. It was founded in 1977 as a result of a merger between Neville's Cross College of Education and Durham Technical College. It holds foundation degree awarding powers.
Mar 7, 2018 · The University of Durham opened in 1833. The University of London received its charter in 1836. More remarkably still, by the end of the Victorian era, both Oxford and Cambridge were actively involved in founding new institutions. Without their support, many of the other, civic universities in England would never have come about.
Mar 14, 2021 · Then Van Mildert College opened in 1966, Trevelyan College followed in 1967, and Collingwood College opened in 1973. The National Savings Office opened in Durham in 1961. The new County Hall was built in 1963 and the Magistrates Court was built in 1964.
