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Blue Plaques at Leeds University. St George's Field, part of the University of Leeds campus, is the former Woodhouse Cemetery, where is buried Pablo Fanque (William Darby), who was a black circus proprietor for 30 years during the Victorian period. [124] [125] Fanque's wife, Susannah Darby, is also buried at the cemetery. There is a monument ...
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From 1968 to 1993 it was known as Jacob Kramer College, after Jacob Kramer, having lost part of its provision to Leeds Polytechnic (the future Leeds Beckett University). It was known as Leeds College of Art and Design until 2009, and then as Leeds College of Art. [7] In August 2017, the school was granted university status and the name was ...
Leeds Conservatoire was established in 1965 as the Leeds Music Centre, delivering extra-curricular music classes at the Leeds Institute building near Millennium Square, which now houses Leeds City Museum. [10] In 1971, it became affiliated with Leeds University and known as the City of Leeds College of Music. [16]
The region's main public research universities are: University of Bradford, University of Huddersfield, University of Hull, University of Leeds, Leeds Beckett University, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and the University of York. Many of the institutions have histories pre-dating their university.
Leeds Beckett University (LBU), formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) and before that as Leeds Polytechnic, is a public university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It has campuses in the city centre and Headingley. The university's origins can be traced to 1824, with the foundation of the Leeds Mechanics Institute.