The University of Bradford is a public research university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. A plate glass university, it received its royal charter in 1966, making it the 40th university to be created in Britain, but can trace its origins back to the establishment of the industrial West Yorkshire town's Mechanics Institute in 1832.
Richmond Building, University of Bradford
J.B. Priestley Library and Student Central, University of Bradford
Chesham Building in the University of Bradford
Former Secretary of State for Education Gavin Williamson graduated from Bradford with a BSc in Social Sciences.
A plate glass university or plateglass 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 following decisions by the University Grants Committee (UGC) in the late 1950s and early 1960s, prior to the Robbins Report in 1963. However, the term has since expanded to encompass the institutions that became universities as a result of Robbins' recommendations.
The University of York's Central Hall.
The University of Sussex, the first of the plateglass generation
