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7 unusual facts about University of York


Baronville

In 2007 a group of three University of York students attempted to get the fictitious town of 'BaronVille' onto the new UK version of the board game Monopoly.

Goodricke College

Goodricke College is one of the colleges of the University of York.

Langwith College

Langwith College is a college of the University of York, home to the English and Educational Studies departments and the first college (along with Derwent) to be opened following the university's foundation in 1963.

As part of a wider programme of a campus-wide reduction in opening hours of all facilities, which included the partial closing of the Alcuin College bar B'Henry's, and the total closure of Halifax College bar JJs; Langwith College Bar was issued with a notice of closure by the University of York Commercial Services in early 2008.

Richard A. Fletcher

He was Professor of History at the University of York and one of the outstanding talents in English and Spanish medieval scholarship.

Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Parasitology

Bodies like the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and researchers from University of York have expressed interest in attaching themselves with the institute.

Tang Hall

The area is popular for student housing because the University of York is nearby.


Alexa Hepburn

From 2005 she has undergone extensive training in conversation analysis, attending workshops taught by Emanuel Schegloff, John Heritage and Gene Lerner in UCLA and masters level modules in conversation analysis at the University of York taught by Celia Kitzinger.

An Inconvenient Truth 2

A screening in York was reviewed in the independent media outlet and student run University of York website The Yorker.

Katrina Honeyman

She graduated in Economic History and Sociology at the University of York and then gained a Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham: her thesis work on the social background of early entrepreneurs was later published as Origins of Enterprise.

M. A. R. Koehl

She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington where she studied with Richard Strathmann, and at University of York, where she studied with John Currey.

Mike Mulkay

He worked as a reader and researcher at the University of Cambridge until 1966, he was then lecturer in sociology at Simon Fraser University 1966 to 1969, at Aberdeen University from 1969 to 1973, and then as Professor of Sociology at the University of York, from which he retired in 2001.

Paula Morris

After completing a D. Phil at the University of York, under the supervision of Hermione Lee, and after a brief stint living in Manchester, she moved to London – working for BBC Radio 3 as a production assistant, Virgin Records as Press Officer for Virgin Classics, and PolyGram (now Universal) as Press and Promotions Manager for Philips.

Richard Burden

He attended the Wallasey Technical Grammar School; Bramhall Comprehensive School; St John's College of Further Education, Manchester; the University of York, where he obtained a degree in Politics and was the president of the Students' Union in 1976; and then to the University of Warwick where he received a Master's Degree in Industrial Relations.

Roses rivalry

Roses Tournament, an annual sports competition between the students of the University of York and Lancaster University.

Signals of Belief in Early England

The fifth paper of the anthology, authored by Jenny Walker, a graduate of the University of York's Department of Archaeology, explores the role that the great wooden halls served as "ritual theatres" in Anglo-Saxon paganism, using the Northumbrian site of Yeavering as a case study.


see also

Encyclopédie

With Judith Hawley, Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London; Caroline Warman, Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College, Oxford; and David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York, and presented by Melvyn Bragg.

Scoring A Century

Scenes from the work were premiered by the University of York Music Department in November 1999 whilst the complete work was being lined up to debut at Portland Opera, Oregon.