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Website. exeter .ac .uk. The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of Mines were established in 1838, 1855, 1863, and 1888 respectively.
Mardon Hall (1933), the first purpose-built hall. The University of Exeter offers approximately 5,900 purposebuilt student bed spaces for its students. [1] The majority of its residences are located on campus, although 30% of self-catered accommodations (particularly for the St Lukes Campus) are located off-campus.
The Devon and Exeter Institution is a subscription library in the City of Exeter, Devon, founded in 1813 for "The general diffusion of science, literature and the arts". [1] It is situated at 7, Cathedral Close, Exeter, in a building facing the north side of Exeter Cathedral which was formerly the Exeter townhouse of the Courtenay family of ...
Inscribed on base: "E B Stephens ARA 1868". Stephens gave his labour gratis and was a benefactor of the museum and had been a promoter of its predecessor. Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) is a museum and art gallery in Exeter, Devon, the largest in the city. It holds significant and diverse collections in areas such as zoology ...
David Reeder – Lecturer in Urban History, University of Leicester [13] Gareth Stansfield – Professor of Middle East Studies at University of Exeter [14] Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock – pioneering ecologist and former President of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union; Ted Wragg – Professor of Education at the University of Exeter (1978–2003 ...
Exeter became an affluent centre for the wool trade, although by the First World War the city was in decline. After the Second World War, much of the city centre was rebuilt and is now a centre for education, business and tourism in Devon and Cornwall. It is home to two of the constituent campuses of the University of Exeter: Streatham and St ...
The Exeter Book, also known as the Codex Exoniensis or Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501, is a large codex of Old English poetry, believed to have been produced in the late tenth century AD. [1] It is one of the four major manuscripts of Old English poetry , along with the Vercelli Book in Vercelli, Italy, the Nowell Codex in the British Library ...
In March 2014 Exeter College Association Football Club defeated St Catherine's College 2–1 in the final of the Cuppers tournament to lift the trophy for the first time in over 40 years. [29] In May 2019 Turl Street Rugby, made up of students from Exeter College, Jesus College and Lincoln College , won Oxford's inaugural 15-a-side Women's ...