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Portrait of a College: A History of the College of Saint John the Evangelist in Cambridge

By Edward Miller

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9781108003544
Google Books ID
L7v4PwAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10393199 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Cambridge
Edition
1
Pages
174\174
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This affectionate but far from sentimental history was published in 1961 to mark the 450th anniversary of the foundation of St John's College, Cambridge. Edward Miller (1915-2000) was a medieval historian who spent most of his career teaching in Cambridge. An undergraduate and research fellow at St John's, he later went on to become Master of Fitzwilliam. His Portrait blends the history of St John's with wider developments in education, as well as social, political and economic history. As such it is a fine example of an institutional history written from within, with an unbiased assessment of the many changes the College had seen. The chapter on the period from 1918 to the early sixties, based on Miller's own reminiscences and those of his colleagues, is an important record of life in the college in an age of modernisation and change.

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