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Professor Anderson, who specialises in the history of universities at Edinburgh University, offers a lucid and nicely paced survey of his subject. --, Church Times

Title mention in the BBC History magazine, 2007 -- BBC History Magazine British Universities Past and Present is highly recommended as an initial introduction to both key developments in higher education during the Victorian era and their longer-term origins and consequences. -David Mitch, Victorian Studies, Summer 2007 -- David Mitch this is a superb book that should be read by all those seriouly interested in British Higher Education a thoroughly good read Oxford Magazine, 2007 -- David Palfreyman ...a thought-provoking addition to narratives treating the evolution of British universities and their relationships with broader society... British Universities Past and Present is an expertly researched monograph of the evolution of the education system in England and Scotland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... [and] serves as an essential reference for various parliamentary acts and intellectual trends within the last few centuries. -- http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32968 Professor Anderson, who specialises in the history of universities at Edinburgh University, offers a lucid and nicely paced survey of his subject. -- Michael Wheeler * Church Times * 'His history of the universities is well paced, with early chapters giving just enough flavour of the pre-modern era to introduce some of his main themes...he has a good eye for details that flag up how far attitudes have changed on many fundamental issues.' -- Duncan Campbell-Smith * Times Literary Supplement *

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  Robert Anderson is professor of modern history at the University of Edinburgh. He has written extensively on the history of universities and of Scottish education. He published Universities and Elites in Britain since 1800 in 1992, and his most recent book is European Universities from the Enlightenment to 1914 (2004).

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