41-698: London Guildhall University was a university in the United Kingdom from 1992 to 2002, established when the City of London Polytechnic was awarded university status. On 1 August 2002, it merged with the University of North London to form London Metropolitan University . The former London Guildhall University premises now form the new university's City campus, situated on various sites in the City of London . In 1848 Charles Blomfield, Bishop of London, called upon
82-717: A cost of £16,000 (contributions were received from Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales) and were opened in 1881. In 1891 the college joined the Birkbeck Institute (now Birkbeck College , University of London ) and the Northampton Institute (now City University , London) to form the notional City Polytechnic by a Charity Commissioners' scheme to facilitate funding for these institutions by the City Parochial Foundation, and to enable
123-681: A deal in which his classes would be taught separately in another building. He eventually graduated with a degree in philosophy. Beishon remained at PNL for three years. In 1992, under the Further and Higher Education Act , the Polytechnic of North London was granted university status to become the University of North London. It existed under that name until 2002, when it merged with London Guildhall University to form London Metropolitan University . The 1997 Mike Leigh film Career Girls
164-443: A totally fascistic manner" over the issue and wished "all the picketing students the best of luck with their campaign." Harrington subsequently faced a disciplinary hearing for a television interview in which, in line with NF policy, he questioned the right of black people to citizenship. In January 1985, with a new director, John Beishon, in post and final examinations approaching, the polytechnic, students' union and Harrington agreed
205-407: Is about a reunion between two women who shared a flat six years earlier whilst studying at the Polytechnic of North London. 51°33′06″N 0°06′38″W / 51.5518°N 0.1106°W / 51.5518; -0.1106 Sir John Cass Sir John Cass (February 1661 – 5 July 1718) was an English merchant, Tory Member of Parliament and philanthropist. He was also a key figure in
246-564: Is also estimated that £6000 is what a cargo of approximately 300 enslaved people would be sold for in early eighteenth-century Jamaica. He died on 5 July 1718, aged 57, of a brain haemorrhage and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary Matfelon , in Whitechapel , now the Altab Ali Park . His widow Elizabeth née Franklin died on 7 July 1732. They had no children. Cass founded a school for 50 boys and 40 girls in buildings in
287-557: The Education Reform Act 1988 , it came under the control of the Inner London Education Authority , part of the then Greater London Council . Degree awarding authority resided with the former Council for National Academic Awards until the polytechnic, a pioneer of widening participation and access to higher education, was granted university status in 1992. After leaving Oxford in 1964,
328-488: The Greater London Council ) until the passing of the Education Reform Act 1988 . The London College of Furniture was incorporated into the polytechnic in 1990. Under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 the polytechnic was awarded university status, previously having awarded the degrees of the former Council for National Academic Awards . London Guildhall University was named to show its links with
369-715: The Royal African Company , which was involved in the Atlantic slave trade . He was born in Rosemary Lane, in the City of London , son of Thomas Cass, carpenter to the Royal Ordnance . He was baptised on 28 February 1661 at St Botolph's Aldgate . In 1665, the family moved to Grove Street, in South Hackney , to escape the plague . On 7 January 1684 he married Elizabeth Franklin. Cass
410-569: The Secretary of State for Education , Sir Keith Joseph , threatened to close the polytechnic down. In December, David MacDowall, then director, resigned after pressure from the Inner London Education Authority to make a complaint against Harrington for remarks he made in a radio interview. ILEA said the remarks were racist, which Harrington denied. In his resignation letter, MacDowall admitted that he had acted "in
451-618: The Academic Registry. In 1994, the Learning Centre library opened on the site of a former mirror factory. In 1996, the Trades Union Congress library collections, which had been established in 1922, were transferred there. It is the major research library for the study of all aspects of trade unions, collective bargaining and labour history, with both historical and contemporary coverage. The Great Hall
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#1732780569066492-708: The Americas. Cass was elected as one of the Tory MPs for the City in 1710 . He was re-elected in 1713 but lost to the Whig faction in 1715 . He served as alderman for the ward of Portsoken from January 1711 and in June 1711 was elected as one of the sheriffs of London . As sheriff, he was knighted in June 1712. He was appointed a commissioner of the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches in 1711; this
533-593: The City of London and the City's many guilds/livery companies. It was unassociated with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama , based at the Barbican Centre . LGU was ranked 30th out of the UK's 43 new universities in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise . In August 2004, in the midst of a contract dispute with former LGU staff following the merger with the University of North London, it was reported that
574-738: The City – near to St Botolph's, ( The Aldgate School , formerly Sir John Cass's Foundation Primary School); a secondary school ( Stepney All Saints School , formerly Sir John Cass Redcoat School) in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets ; the School of Art, Architecture and Design within London Metropolitan University ; and the Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School) within City, University of London . The foundation has provided funding for
615-598: The Guildhall School of Business and Law) in 1944. The college celebrated its centenary in 1948 with a service of thanksgiving addressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury at St Paul's Cathedral. In 1970 the college merged with the Sir John Cass College of Arts and Science to form the City of London Polytechnic , which remained under the control of the Inner London Education Authority (part of
656-719: The Sir John Cass Foundation School as well as providing for the establishment of the Sir John Cass Technical Institute, which was founded in 1899 and moved into newly built premises at 31 Jewry Street, London, in 1902; becoming Sir John Cass College in 1950. In 1965, the college's Department of Fine and Applied art merged with the Department of Silversmithing and Allied Crafts from the Central School of Art to form
697-562: The Sir John Cass School of Art, which moved into its own new premises at Central House, opposite the Whitechapel Art Gallery . The Sir John Cass College merged with the City of London College in 1970 to form the City of London Polytechnic; becoming London Guildhall University and merging to form the London Metropolitan University in 2002. The modern foundation provides support to a primary school within
738-703: The Sir John Cass School of Education at the University of East London campus in Stratford, London . Funding has also been provided for the Sir John Cass Hall, a hall of residence for students, in Well Street, London Borough of Hackney . In the United States in May 2020, George Floyd, a black man, was murdered by a white police officer, and in response there were protests in many cities around
779-509: The churchyard of St Botolph's Aldgate in 1709. He had made a will at this time, but when his health failed in 1718, he planned to make a new version taking account of the extra property he had acquired in the intervening years. Cass began a new will, but by the time of his death only two pages had been initialled. The will – with an estate worth £2,000 – was contested by his heirs at law in the Court of Chancery . Lady Cass continued as patroness of
820-781: The clergy to establish evening classes to improve the moral, intellectual and spiritual condition of young men in London. In response, the Reverend Charles Mackenzie, who instituted the Metropolitan Evening Classes for Young Men in Crosby Hall , Bishopsgate, London, with student fees at one shilling per session. Subjects on the original curriculum included Greek, Latin, Hebrew, English, History, Mathematics, Drawing and Natural Philosophy. This fledgling college came under royal patronage following
861-550: The club scene took hold at the turn of the decade, it was relaunched as the Rocket complex and became one of London's leading all-nighter venues. The 1990s also saw the building divided vertically, creating its two separate floors. In 2015, the Great Hall had its name and grandeur restored, with the Rocket now referring exclusively to the ground floor café bar and adjacent courtyard garden. The vice-chancellor and chief executive
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#1732780569066902-622: The inhabitants of Islington and the neighbouring parts of north London, and especially for the Industrial Classes, the means of acquiring a sound General, Scientific, Technical and Commercial Education at small cost." The founding principal of the institute was the chemist John Thomas Dunn . He appointed Victor Alessandro Mundella as its first Professor of Physics and Head of the Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering . By 1911, five-year University of London evening degrees were available. The modernist Cecil Stephenson
943-639: The largest unitary university in London. The Northern Polytechnic opened in Holloway with aid from the City Parochial Foundation and substantial donations from the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers in 1896. Under the terms of its royal charter , its objective was "to promote the industrial skill, general knowledge, health and well-being of young men and women belonging to the poorer classes of Islington [and] to provide for
984-492: The management of the merged institution had ordered the destruction of the entire print run of a history of the university – London Guildhall University: From Polytechnic to University – authored by Sean Glynn, formerly a senior research fellow in the department of Politics and Modern History; the work had been commissioned by Sir Roderick Floud , the President of London Metropolitan University, when Provost of LGU. Following
1025-670: The merger with North London, London Metropolitan became the largest unitary university in London. It includes the Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design and Sir John Cass Hall of Residence, so named because of the continued support of Sir John Cass 's Foundation. In 2002, the unconnected City University Business School became the Sir John Cass Business School for similar reasons. 51°31′04″N 0°05′18″W / 51.5177°N 0.0883°W / 51.5177; -0.0883 University of North London The University of North London ( UNL )
1066-651: The printing department transferred to the London College of Printing (a founding member of the London Institute ), the North-Western was the largest polytechnic in London. The Polytechnic of North London was founded by the 1971 merger of the Northern and North-Western polytechnics. Its first director was Terence Miller , former principal of the University of Rhodesia . Until the passing of
1107-489: The protesters, backed by the students' union , ignored. At one stage the president of the National Union of Students , Phil Woolas , reported that the polytechnic was "simply not functioning any more," with lecturers defying the courts by refusing to give names of students on demonstrations. Two student leaders were sent to prison for 16 days for contempt of the court order preventing them from barring Harrington and
1148-488: The renowned historian A. J. P. Taylor lectured at the polytechnic until his death in 1990. In 1984, Patrick Harrington , a prominent member of the National Front and deputy editor of NF News , was the subject of protests by fellow students who picketed and boycotted his lectures, arguing that his presence made life intolerable for ethnic minority students. Disputing this, Harrington obtained an injunction which
1189-527: The schools, but died in 1732. The school continued for a few more years under the aegis of Valentine Brewis, one of the trustees Cass had named, but was closed down after his death in 1738. In the early 1740s the remaining trustees petitioned Parliament for the permanent endowment of the school, and the will was finally upheld 30 years after Cass's death. This enabled the Sir John Cass's Foundation to be established in 1748. His charity continued to fund
1230-459: The three institutions to work cooperatively. However this attempted federation did not function in practice, as each institution continued to operate more or less independently. The City Polytechnic concept was dissolved in 1906, and the City of London College came under the supervision of London County Council . In December 1940 the college's building was destroyed by a German air raid. The college subsequently moved into premises at 84 Moorgate (now
1271-419: The university's north campus, on Holloway Road and Highbury Grove, Islington . Under the board of governors , the university was arranged into four faculties each led by a dean and pro vice-chancellor:— Faculties organised undergraduate and postgraduate schemes within a university modular framework. An interdisciplinary undergraduate scheme for inter-faculty combined honours degrees was managed centrally by
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1312-657: The visit of Prince Albert to the classes in 1851. In 1860 the classes moved to Sussex Hall, the former Livery Hall of the Bricklayers' Company, in Leadenhall Street. By this time, some 800 students were enrolled annually. In 1861 the classes were reconstituted as the City of London College . Over the next twenty years, the college was one of the pioneers in the introduction of commercial and technical subjects. The college built new premises in White Street at
1353-833: The world. In Bristol the statue of Edward Colston , a slave trader, was toppled. Thus, amongst a broader recognition of racial injustice, many institutions reviewed their historical associations with the slave trade. In the following months the Sir John Cass Foundation and many associated organisations changed, or committed to change, their names. London Metropolitan University removed Cass's name from their Art, Architecture and Design School. The foundation itself committed to change its name, later announcing that it would be called The Portal Trust , taking effect in Spring 2021. The business school at City, University of London , removed its association with Cass, instead adopting
1394-499: The year earlier enabled him to be elected as an 'assistant' to the company. In 1705 Cass increased his holding to £6000 worth of stock. Two years later in 1707, Cass sold £1000 of his stock to another noteworthy stock holder Thomas Martin. From 1713 to 1716 Cass held £1700 of Royal African Company stock. The initial £6000 Cass had invested in the Company between 1705 and 1707 would be the equivalent of at least £1 million today. It
1435-576: Was a merchant, builder and politician. In 1705 Cass became a member of the Court of Assistants (equivalent to the board of directors) of the Royal African Company which since 1662 had held the monopoly in England on trading along the West Africa coast in gold, silver, ivory and slaves . The company had been set up by King Charles II and his brother the Duke of York (later King James II) , who
1476-612: Was a scheme to provide new churches for the rapidly expanding population of the metropolis. Cass was Master of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters in 1711–12, concurrent with his shrievalty ; but in 1714 he transferred to the Skinners' Company , and became their Master. Between 1709 and 1715 he was treasurer to the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals . On 5 December 1704 Cass bought £1000 worth of Royal African Company stock. In January 1705, resulting from investment Cass had made
1517-592: Was a university in London, England, formed from the Polytechnic of North London (PNL) in 1992 when that institution was granted university status. PNL, in turn, had been formed by the amalgamation of the Northern Polytechnic and North-Western Polytechnic in 1971. In 1996, the university celebrated its centenary, dating from the year of the Northern Polytechnic's founding. UNL existed until 2002, when it merged with London Guildhall University to form London Metropolitan University . Its former premises now form
1558-517: Was appointed head of art in 1923 and, from 1925, courses were recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects . The North Western Polytechnic was eventually opened by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII ) at Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town in 1929. The polytechnic later acquired premises at St Pancras , Highbury (Ladbroke House) and 207–225 Essex Road. Concentrating on social sciences, humanities and arts, by 1967, when
1599-531: Was officially opened by the Lord Mayor of London in 1897, as a social and academic events space catering for dances and recitals. By 1929, a proscenium arch and stage were installed and it was renamed the Theatre, playing host to operas and theatrical productions. Throughout the 1980s, it was a solid fixture on the capital's gig circuit and an essential stop for touring bands. When electronic dance music and
1640-467: Was supported by the deputy vice-chancellor (academic) and the deputy vice-chancellor (research and development). In 2000, the university awarded an honorary degree to Desmond Tutu , Archbishop of Cape Town and primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, in a special ceremony. Following the merger with London Guildhall (formerly the City of London Polytechnic), London Metropolitan became
1681-503: Was the governor of the company, together with City of London merchants. The slaves were sold for labour on tobacco , and, increasingly, sugar plantations . He held shares in the Royal African Company until his death. During the years that Cass held the position of Court of Assistants (1705–1708), the company undertook and documented fifty-five voyages, mostly journeying from London, of over 14,000 enslaved Africans for