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Buckinghamshire New University (BNU) is a public university in Buckinghamshire, England, with campuses in High Wycombe, Aylesbury, Uxbridge and Great Missenden.The institution dates from 1891, when it was founded as the School of Science and Art, and has since then has variously been known as Wycombe Technical Institute, High Wycombe College of Technology and Art and the Buckinghamshire ...
The University of Buckingham (UB) is a non-profit private university in Buckingham, England, and the oldest of the country's six private universities. [a] It was founded as the University College at Buckingham (UCB) in 1973, admitting its first students in 1976. It was granted university status by royal charter in 1983.
Became an independent university in 1963 by act of parliament and does not have a royal charter. Its city-centre location, architecture, and history as a nineteenth century university college make Newcastle more similar to the redbricks than the plateglass universities, and it is often referred to as redbrick or a civic university. [54] [55] [56]
The university was renamed Buckinghamshire New University in 2007, [11] and the university closed its campus at Newland Park on 1 August 2009. [12] The university sold Newland Park to Comer Group on 1 July 2011, and, in 2012, Newland Park House and gardens were leased to an events and weddings company. [9]
The Chandos Cinema was in operation from 1934 and closed in 1987, [27] but in 2005 an independent community cinema opened in the university called the Film Place. [28] Live music events are regularly held in the Radcliffe Centre. [29] A library is located in the town centre, operated by Buckinghamshire County Council.
Reproductions of the Milton Keynes Hoard of Bronze Age torcs and bracelets. Some of the places in Buckinghamshire date back much further than the Anglo-Saxon period. Aylesbury, for example, is known from archaeological digs to date back at least as far as 1500 B.C. and the Icknield Way, which crosses the county, is pre-Roma
The University of Bedfordshire is a public research university with campuses in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England. The university has roots in further and higher education from 1882: it gained university status in 1993 as the University of Luton .
Buckinghamshire Archives (prior to 2020 the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies [1]) is the county record office for Buckinghamshire, England. It houses the former Buckinghamshire Record Office and the former Buckinghamshire Local Studies Library. It is located in the offices of Buckinghamshire Council, in Walton Street, Aylesbury.