Bangor University 1884-2009. David Roberts

      © David Roberts, 2009

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       To the students and staff – past, present and future – of Bangor University

       Contents

List of illustrations

Abbreviations

Foreword

Preface

1 ‘North Wales and his wife will be there’: The Beginning, 1884–1892

2 ‘Little Balliol’: Growth and Development, 1893–1927

       3 ‘The strange and beautiful hillside college at Bangor’: Recession and War, 1928–1945

       4 ‘The whole place had a sort of family feeling’: Reconstruction, 1945–1957

       5 ‘Universities have a duty to try to find places for all those who wish to enter’: The Challenges of Expansion, 1958–1976

       6 ‘We are drifting into very perilous waters’: Confrontation and Crisis, 1976–1984

       7 ‘I am sure that a radical approach is right’: Responding to Change, 1984–2009

       Notes