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The University of Nottingham traces its origins to the founding of an adult education school. -
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the University Extension Lectures inaugurated by the University of Cambridge in 1873—the first of their kind in the country. -
The foundation stone of the college was duly laid in 1877 by former UK Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.
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the college's distinctive neo-gothic building on Shakespeare Street was formally opened in 1881 by Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany.
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it moved from the centre of Nottingham to a large campus on the city's outskirts.
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The new campus, called University Park, was completed in 1928, and financed by an endowment fund, public contributions, and the generosity of Sir Jesse Boot (later Lord Trent)
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In the 1940s, the Midlands Agricultural and Dairy College at Sutton Bonington merged with the university as the School of Agriculture,
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in 1956 the Portland Building was completed to complement the Trent Building.
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In 1970, the university established the UK's first new medical school of the 20th century
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In 1999, Jubilee Campus was opened on the former site of the Raleigh Bicycle Company, one mile (1.6 km) away from the University Park Campus
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Nottingham then began to expand overseas, opening campuses in Malaysia in 1999
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Nottingham then began to expand overseas, opening campuses in China in 2004
