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Establishment
HistoryAs opposed to the Oxford and Cambridge, Durham College and the University could not be up to the XIX century. Only in 1832 the decision to establish the University of British Parliament was adopted at the insistence of Archdeacon Charles Thorp and with the support of the Bishop of Durham William Van Mildert. -
Royal Assent
The Act received Royal Assent and became law on 4 July 1832. -
First students
In 1833 the University received its first students. -
Wilhelm IV
Hostel in 1833-1837 was in the Tavern Archdeacon. Later, the university was transferred to Durham Castle. Royal charter granted University June 1, 1837, Wilhelm IV, and a week later the first release. -
The Durham Union Society
In 1842 the Durham Union Society was set up as a forum for debates, the first of which took place in the reading rooms in Hatfield Hall. It also served as the students' union (hence the name) until Durham Colleges Students' Representative Council was founded in 1899, thus separating into two independent bodies, the DSU and DUS (it was later renamed Durham Students' Union in 1963). -
Hatfield College
In 1846, Bishop Hatfield's Hall (later to become Hatfield College) was founded, providing for the opportunity for students to obtain affordable lodgings with fully catered communal eating. Those attending University College were expected to bring a servant with them to deal with cooking, cleaning and so on. -
St Cuthbert's Society
St Cuthbert's Society was founded in 1888 to cater for non-resident students in Durham (although now mainly caters for resident students), while two teacher-training colleges—St Hild's for women, established in 1858, and The College of the Venerable Bede for men, established in 1839, also existed in the city. -
Women in Durham
Women have been admitted to Durham since the 1890s. In 1895 Senate petitioned the Crown for a supplementary charter enabling degrees to be conferred on women and in the Michaelmas Term, 1896, the first four women students matriculated, all of them members of St. Hild's College. -
Durham colleges
In 1937 Durham colleges were transformed into Department of the University of Durham, and the Medical College and Armstrong College in Newcastle - Newcastle in the office, which was called the Royal College. -
The new name and logo
In 2005, the University unveiled a re-branded logotype and renamed itself as "Durham University". The news was poorly received among many academic and student members of the university, with Van Mildert JCR going as far as boycotting the new name and logo. However, the official name of the institution remains the University of Durham and the official coat of arms is unchanged.
