Table of Contents

General editor's preface; Introduction; 1. Townscape and University: topographical change; 2. The University: its constitution, personnel and tasks; 3. Colleges: buildings, masters and fellows; 4. Colleges: tutors, bursars and money; 5. Mathematics, law and medicine; 6. Science and other studies; 7. Religion in the University: its rituals and significance; 8. The orthodox and latitudinarian traditions, 1700–1800; 9. Cambridge religion 1780–1840: evangelicanism; 10. Cambridge religion: the mid-Victorian years; 1. The University as a political institution, 1750–1815; 12. The background to University reform, 1830–50; 13. Cambridge and reform, 1815–1870; 14. The Graham Commission and its aftermath; 15. The undergraduate experience, I: Philip Yorke and the Wordsworths; 16. The undergraduate experience, II: Charles Astor Bristed and William Everett; 17. The undergraduate experience, III: William Thomson; 18. Games for gownsmen: walking, athletics, boating and ball games; 19. Leisure for town and gown: music, debating and drama; Appendices; Bibliography.

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'Peter Searby ... admirably meets the challenge of describing the transition from 'unreformed Cambridge' to something beginning to display recognizable marks of the University as it exists today. This is full of rich and fascinating detail ... wide-ranging study ...'. The Times Literary Supplement '... a surefooted account of the university's response to the upheavals generated by the revolutionary climate of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and by the movement for reform which followed it ... it illuminates not only the history of a particular university but also that of the period more generally.' Economic History Review