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The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon.Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of Mines were established in 1838, 1855, 1863, and 1888 respectively.
This is a list of University of Exeter people, including office holders, current and former academics, and alumni of the University of Exeter. In post-nominals, the University of Exeter is abbreviated as Exon. (from the Latin Exoniensis), and is the suffix given to honorary and academic degrees from the university.
Women students were first admitted in 1966, [1] by which time the college was known as St Luke's College Exeter. It still had a strong Christian emphasis as a Church of England foundation. [2] In 1978 the college joined the University of Exeter and ceased to be an independent Anglican college. [1]
Allerfeldt's research focuses on the history of racism, nationalism and organised crime in the United States, and the creation of modern American society. [4] He is an occasional political and cultural commentator for The Independent. [5] His published work has explored subjects such as the KKK, [6] the progressive era, [7] and U.S. deportation ...
It was the University College of the South West's first purpose-built hall of residence. This was 22 years before the university gained its charter, becoming the University of Exeter in 1955. Mardon Hall was financed by the College Appeal and Flight Lieutenant Evelyn Mardon, who donated £25,000 towards the building cost and after whom it was ...
The Mary Harris Memorial Chapel of the Holy Trinity within the University of Exeter which was designed and presented to the university by Dr E. Vincent Harris, OBE, in memory of his mother, was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Exeter on 26 June 1958. It was declared a Grade II Listed Building on 29 March 1988. [1]
Exeter City Council and the university have agreed to help find a way to save the theatre. [6] [7] On 5 June 2010 it was confirmed by administrators Begbies Traynor that a new company set up by the university had purchased the theatre, the Exeter Northcott Theatre Company, and the immediate future of the theatre was thought to have been secured ...
Jeremy Black MBE (born 30 October 1955) is an English historian, who was formerly a professor of history at the University of Exeter.He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.