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5 unusual facts about Birkbeck, University of London


Álvaro Pombo

Born in Santander, Cantabria, he studied at the Complutense University of Madrid and received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he lived between 1966 and 1977.

Delia Pemberton

Delia Pemberton (born 1954) is an author and lecturer in Egyptology, formerly with the British Museum and Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

Mallerstang

The grandson of one of these Quaker families, George Birkbeck, set up the “Mechanics Institute” in London, which later became Birkbeck College of the University of London.

Roland Michel Tremblay

He studied one year at La Sorbonne in Paris and finished his Master Degree in French Literature at Birkbeck, University of London in 1999.

William Bowring

William S. B. Bowring, born 1949, barrister, human rights activist and professor at Birkbeck, University of London


Abdolkarim Soroush

It was after receiving a Masters degree in Analytical Chemistry from University of London that he went to Chelsea College, (a constituent college of the University of London which was merged with two other constituent colleges: Queen Elizabeth College and Kings College in 1985) for studying history and philosophy of science.

Aepyornis

A cast of the Aepyornis egg is preserved at the Grant Museum of Zoology at the University of London.

Al-ssadiq Al-raddi

Al-ssadiq contributed by recited his poetry in Abu Dhabi International for Book Fair in April 2004.Al-ssadiq has poetry translated to English by The Centre of Poetry Translation CPT, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and the translation had done by Sudanese poet Hafiz Kheir, poet Sarah Maguire and poet Mark Ford.

Anstey College of Physical Education

Rhoda Anstey stepped down as principal in 1927, after having partially retired in 1920, though she remained a co-director until 1930, in which year the college gained the approval of the University of London to grant accredited diplomas.

Arthur Powell Davies

In London, he met George Bernard Shaw, who urged him to go into politics; instead, he chose to attend Richmond Theological College, a Methodist seminary affiliated with the University of London, and to join the Methodist ministry.

Blanc Wan

He is currently working on his PhD project with the renowned cellist and musicologist Alexander Ivashkin at the Research Centre for Russian Music, University of London.

Carolyn McCall

She then gained a Master’s degree in politics from the University of London, and on graduation joined construction group Costain.

Cory Collusion Inquiry

Also sitting on the inquiry are academic professor Andrew Coyle from the University of London and the former Bishop of Hereford, the Reverend John Oliver.

Dagmar Berne

She sat the exams of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1891 and passed with excellent marks in anatomy and physiology, and proceeded on to the final portion her studies at the University of London.

Dan Sanker

Sanker received an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, and studied at the University of London, IES in Vienna, and Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakata City, Japan.

Eileif Kolsrud

In between he had several study trips and leaves, among others at the University of London.

English 31

At the age of fifteen/sixteen, pupils are entered for English GCSE which are organised by the Edexcel (University of London).

Epstein–Barr virus

The Epstein–Barr virus is named after Michael Anthony Epstein, a professor emeritus at the University of Bristol, and Yvonne Barr (born 1932 in London), a 1966 Ph.D graduate from the University of London, who together discovered and documented the virus.

George Birkbeck

He is of the same Birkbeck family as early 19th-century Illinois pioneer, social reformer, author, publicist and agricultural innovator Morris Birkbeck.

George Karakunnel

He also has a Master's Degree in the Philosophy of Religions from the University of London.

Gomionica Monastery

A silver-gilt cross formerly owned by the monastery, made in 1640, is now in the collection of the University of London, which acquired it from the private collection of Thomas Gambier Parry.

Harry Nkumbula

From Makerere, Nkumbula went on to study for and received a diploma from the Institute of Education, University of London.

Harvey N. Middleton

Middleton took short courses for additional training at Harvard University; the University of London, England; the University of Michigan; Indiana University; and Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.

Henry Nathan, Jr.

The son of Henry Nathan, Nathan was educated at the London University School and became a wholesale merchant in Victoria, British Columbia.

Hill baronets

Rosalind Mary Theodosia Hill (1907-1977), daughter of the first Baronet, was Professor of History at the University of London.

Jerrold Levinson

He has also held visiting appointments in other countries, such as England (University of London and University of Kent), New Zealand (University of Canterbury), France (Université de Rennes), Belgium (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Portugal (Universidade de Lisboa) and Switzerland (Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana).

John Martineau

Martineau and Taylor sided with Birkbeck and Francis Place, in backing the subscription scheme brought forward by William Bayley, which was carried.

Joseph A. Rochford

Most recently, he presented at the Kisubi Brothers University Centre of Uganda’s Martyrs University on collaboration and at the University of London on introducing pre-service teaching into global virtual communities.

Kahn Lectures

The next two series of lectures in the series were held in January 1931 by Herbert Joseph Spinden, the expert in pre-Columbian American archaeology who had already been considered twice before, and in the fall of 1931 by Edward Denison Ross, director of (what was still known as) the School of Oriental Studies of the University of London, who talked about Persian art.

KCL

King's College London, a public research university in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London

Laurence Cecil Bartlett Gower

Laurence Cecil Bartlett Gower MBE (27 January 1913- 25 December 1997), universally known as "LCB Gower" in his writings, was the Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the University of London and sometime visiting Professor at Harvard University.

Louis George Alexander

A British author of EFL course books, Louis Alexander was born in London and educated at Godalming Grammar School and the University of London, he taught English in Germany (1954–56) and Greece (1956–65) where he was head of English at the Protypon Lykeion, Athens (what is now the Scholi Moraïti).

M. G. S. Narayanan

He held academic positions in MG University, Kottayam and Mangalore University in India and also served abroad in various foreign universities, notable among them being the Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow University, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Malone Society

The Society is a registered charity in the United Kingdom and its administrative base is at the University of London's Institute of English Studies.

Marjorie Bean

She attended Wilberforce University (in Ohio), Columbia University's Teachers College (in New York City) and the Institute of Education at the University of London.

Maurice Lebel

In 1932, he received a Diploma in language and English literature and a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1935 from the University of London.

Monica Oliphant

She has a Masters Degree in Physics from the University of London and worked for almost 20 years as an Energy Research Scientist in the Electricity Trust of South Australia, but since 2000 has been an independent consultant specialising in residential energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Neil March

He then studied with David Sutton-Anderson, also receiving some instruction from Avril Anderson at Birkbeck, University of London in 2006/7 before studying for his masters (mmus.) in music composition at Goldsmiths, University of London with the New Complexity Composer Roger Redgate from 2008 to 2010 and receiving some assistance from Russian composer Dmitry Smirnov.

No. 6 Air Experience Flight RAF

From 26 November 1995 it was parented by London University Air Squadron but when London UAS moved to RAF Wyton, 6 AEF remained at RAF Benson with parenting being taken over by Oxford University Air Squadron, both units being equipped with Grob Tutor T Mk 1s.

Oliver Millar

Millar was educated at Rugby School and the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London, graduating with an Academic Diploma in the History of Art.

Patricia Broadfoot

She spent the following year obtaining a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of London, before beginning her career in education by teaching in Wolmer's Boys High School, Jamaica (1971–73).

Peer Hultberg

He continued his studies of Slavic languages at the University of London and achieved a B.A. in 1963.

R. K. Sinha

Randolph Quirk, Former Vice-Chancellor University of London, It, commemorative volume is a thoroughly worthy objective, for the eminent Professor R K Sinha.

Roger Wingate

Educated at Clifton College, Bristol and the University of London, he took over the Chairmanship of Chesterfield Properties PLC in the mid 1960s.

Suzanne Tremblay

She then completed a certificate in educational studies at the Université de Lyon and a certificate in child care studies at the University of London.

The Skeptic

Skeptic - A University of London literary magazine in the late 1950s under the editorship of Wen Su-Tung

Veronica Buckley

In 1979 she graduated from the University of Canterbury with first class honours in French with philosophy, and was awarded a postgraduate scholarship in cultural and social history at the University of London.

Walter Flowers

In 1957-58, Flowers continued his graduate studies in international law as a fellow at the University of London.

Winston Saunders

Having attended the Bahamas Teachers’ College, Saunders obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Classics from the University of London in 1964.

Yongle Encyclopedia

Further, there are 41 books of the encyclopedia at the Library of Congress in the United States; 51 books in the United Kingdom held at the British Library, the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, and Cambridge University Library; and 5 books held in various libraries in Germany.

Zygmunt Szkopiak

Liberated by the British Eighth Army, he and his family received refugee status and were sent to England where he entered the Polish College of the University of London at Battersea, received a doctorate in the physics of metallurgy and joined the staff of Battersea College of Advanced Technology which, in 1968, became the University of Surrey.


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