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The Philip Robinson Library is the main library for Newcastle University, and is located on Jesmond Road West. It was named after Philip Robinson, a bookseller in the city and benefactor to the library, in 1989. The subsequent £8 million bequest in the will of his widow Marjorie remains the largest sum donated to a UK university library. [6]
The Hatton Gallery was founded in 1925, by the King Edward VII School of Art, Armstrong College, Durham University (Newcastle University's Department of Fine Art), in honour of Richard George Hatton, a professor at the School of Art.
The Newcastle University Faculty of Humanities and Social Science (HaSS) is the largest of the three faculties at Newcastle University. In its current form, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science contains nine schools, a graduate school and a language centre (INTO).
School of Architecture, Newcastle University. Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.Housed in a Grade 2 listed building in the university quadrangle (built in 1913 to a design by WH Knowles [1] [2] and adjacent to the School of Fine Art by the same architect).
From 1954 to 1961 he was Master of Painting in the Fine Art Department Durham University, Kings College Newcastle upon Tyne, (now Newcastle University). [14] There he developed a radical art and design course inspired by the 'basic course' of the Bauhaus that became the model for higher arts education across the UK.
Milton Margai - first prime minister of Sierra Leone (medical degree from the Durham College of Medicine, later Newcastle University Medical School) [137] Laurence Martin - war studies writer [138] Murray Martin, documentary and docudrama filmmaker, co-founder of Amber Film & Photography Collective [139]
Head attended Saint Martin's School of Art, London, in 1969–1970; [3] he studied on the Advanced Sculpture Course run by Barry Flanagan. In 1971 he worked as an assistant to Robert Morris on his Tate Gallery show. He then taught at Goldsmiths College, London, from 1971 to 1979. [3] He taught at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1976 to 2011. [9]
The McCord Centre for Landscape is an interdisciplinary research centre based at Newcastle University, directed by Sam Turner. [1] [2] [3] It is named after Norman McCord, emeritus professor of history at Newcastle University, a pioneer of aerial photography in north-east England.