{"id":1018,"date":"2022-01-20T12:56:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2022-02-04T13:51:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T13:51:53","slug":"24-january-3-4-30pm-what-was-it-like-to-study-at-mason-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/2022\/01\/20\/24-january-3-4-30pm-what-was-it-like-to-study-at-mason-college\/","title":{"rendered":"24 January 3-4.30pm: What was it like to study at Mason College?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 1880, Mason Science College opened in Birmingham, offering a university-level education. At the opening ceremony, the biologist T. H. Huxley declared that \u2018No child born in Birmingham, henceforward \u2026 need fail to obtain, not merely the instruction, but the culture most appropriate to the conditions of his life\u2019. Mason College was to be a new kind of university, centred on science, modern languages and modern literature rather than theology or classics. Twenty years later it would be incorporated into the new University of Birmingham, becoming the core of the first independent civic university to be awarded full university status.<\/p>\n

What was it like to be a part of this radical new experiment in education? Who were the first students at Mason College? How did they gain the \u2018instruction\u2019 and the \u2018culture\u2019 that would equip them for their lives ahead? What did they make of student life and the opportunities it gave them? And what contribution did they go on to make to the intellectual, cultural and political life of Birmingham and the United Kingdom?<\/p>\n

Join John Holmes<\/strong>, Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at Birmingham, and an international panel of experts on Mason College for an online discussion of the first University of Birmingham.<\/p>\n

Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Abigail Droge<\/strong>, Purdue University, Indiana<\/p>\n

Dr Anne Roderick<\/strong>, Wofford College, South Carolina<\/p>\n

Dr Clare Stainthorp<\/strong>, Queen Mary University of London<\/p>\n

This session is hosted as part of the UoBE Festival.<\/p>\n

To join Zoom Meeting:<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/bham-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/81677632667?pwd=NHRHR3N1cDZpejk0NTFDSE1BN1FTdz09<\/a><\/p>\n

Meeting ID: 816 7763 2667<\/p>\n

Passcode: 406022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The recording from the meeting can be viewed here: https:\/\/bham-ac-uk.zoom.us\/rec\/share\/VdfwjvR-m9JHWoMipI4EqH7z8HNUL3mP-1uaOJyaauQTMD00qjUOGxEi_rhjthK_.3ACkLQz8KH9dDrCY?startTime=1643036665000<\/a>\u00a0(Passcode: q1?hvQP0)<\/p>\n

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In 1880, Mason Science College opened in Birmingham, offering a university-level education. At the opening ceremony, the biologist T. H. Huxley declared that \u2018No child born in Birmingham, henceforward \u2026 need fail to obtain, not merely the instruction, but the culture most appropriate to the conditions of his life\u2019. Mason College was to be a … Continue reading “24 January 3-4.30pm: What was it like to study at Mason College?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}