A Community and Its University: Glamorgan, 1913-2003,9780708317877

A Community and Its University: Glamorgan, 1913-2003

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ISBN13: 9780708317877
ISBN10: 0708317871
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary

This history of the University of Glamorgan traces the institutionÆs development from the South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines to its present-day status as a university. Also explored are the various aspects of adult education that have permeated the area from 1900 to the present day and the social and economic context in which the University now operates. This book forms part of the 10th anniversary celebration of the University of Glamorgan.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Sir Adrian Webb
Notes on Contributors xiii
Pontypridd: A Town with No History but One Hell of a Past
1(34)
Meic Stephens
The South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines, 1913--1939
35(34)
Peter H. G. Harries
From School of Mines to the University of Glamorgan
69(30)
Basil Isaac
Classes, Colleges and Communities: Aspects of a Hundred Years of Adult Education in the South Wales Valleys
99(28)
Keith Davies
The University of Glamorgan, Social Exclusion and the South Wales Valleys
127(22)
David Adamson
Civil Society -- Civil University: Voluntary Association in the South Wales Valleys
149(34)
Lesley Hodgson
David Dunkerley
At the Heart of Things
183(14)
Peter Stead
Regeneration, Wales and Culture
197
Dai Smith

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