The ancient universities are a set of seven surviving British and Irish medieval universities and early modern universities that were founded before 1600 AD, and are located in Scotland, England, and
The University of Oxford in Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world
The University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England
The University of St Andrews in St Andrews, Scotland
The University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland
A redbrick university normally refers to one of the nine civic universities originally founded as university colleges in the major industrial cities of England in the second half of the 19th century.
The Victoria Building of the University of Liverpool was the inspiration for the term "red brick university" which was coined by Professor Edgar Allison Peers.
The Aston Webb building, University of Birmingham
The Sackville Street Building of the University of Manchester
Former County Court, Quay Street, Manchester 3