Redbrick university
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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
Plate glass university
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A plate glass university is one of a group of universities in the United Kingdom established or promoted to university status in the 1960s. The original plate glass universities were established follo
Redbrick university
…founded as university colleges in the major industrial cities of England in the second half of the 19th century. However, with the 1960s proliferation of plate glass universities and the reclassification of polytechnics in the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 as post-1992 universities, all British universities founded in…
The University of York's Central Hall.
The University of Sussex, the first of the plateglass generation