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New College, Durham, or Durham College, was a university institution set up by Oliver Cromwell, to provide an alternative to (and break the effective monopoly of) the older University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. It also had the aim of bringing university education to Northern England.
New College Durham is a further and higher education college and a sixth form college in County Durham, England. It was founded in 1977 as a result of a merger between Neville's Cross College of Education and Durham Technical College.
New College Archives are doing weekly exhibitions, showcasing some of our amazing documents - one century at a time. This week's was The 17th Century - New College and the Civil War. It features: Terrier of the Garden - 1624; Robert Woodforde Diary - 1637-41; Leave Passes - 1629 & 1656; Room Ballot 1659; William Byrd's Garden Quadrangle Design ...
Jul 10, 2024 · These fears should be viewed as the defense of an educational monopoly rather than as hostility to science. The universities had expressed a similar desire to maintain their monopoly of higher education when a new university at Durham was proposed in 1657.
The proof mentioned is given by Simeon of Durham, the 12th-century Durham monk and historian, who not only knew the locality well, but had access to Northumbrian traditions and chronicles which no longer exist.
The Cathedral College was the former outer court of the Durham monastery. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in the late 1530s, it was converted into the accommodation for the Dean and 12 Prebends.
In addition to the University Statutes, the various colleges of Oxford had their own statutes and prescribed studies, which some-times included science and mathematics. At New College, two scholars were allowed to study astronomy, and after the AMaster's 4 Oxford University Statutes, trans. G. R. M. Ward (London, 1845), I, The
