An old colour picture postcard showing an image of a brick college building with a clock tower, on a busy London road - plenty of people, horse drawn carts and carriages

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @londonmetuni.bsky.social back when it was the Northern Polytechnic

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An old monocrhome picture postcard showing a photograph of cadet soldiers marching along a country road in uniform with rifles on their shoulders. Written on the card is LU (OTC) 1910

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of what I think is the @londonu.bsky.social Officer Training Corps in 1910

Almost all of those pictured would have fought in WW1; and they'd have known that it was likely to happen too

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An old monochrome picture postcard in portrait orientation showing an aerial photograph of grand college buildings set in a busy city scene

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of what was then Queen Elizabeth College, @londonu.bsky.social

I wrote about this for @wonkhe.bsky.social in 2022 buff.ly/Ty057Cz

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An old monochrome picture postcard showing a large hall with a proscenium arch stage, and chairs arranged in theatre style in front of it

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Senate House, @londonu.bsky.social

Once upon a time, in the last millennium, I trod that stage playing Algernon Moncrieff in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest

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An old picture postcard showing an oil painting of the Strand (St Clement Danes church) and Somerset House in London. Its a busty street scene with horse-drawn omnibuses and carriages, and many pedestrians

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Somerset House, once (a very long time ago!) the home of the @londonu.bsky.social central offices

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An old monochrome picture postcard showing a formal London square, with trees, pigeons and deckchairs. Behind the trees can be seen a row of solid Victorian town houses

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Russell Square

The houses visible behind the trees used, I think, to house the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, now part of @ucl.ac.uk @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social

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An old colour picture postcard showing a watercolour of London buildings; gothic, light stone and towery to the left; more square and squat to the right

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the old London University complex

The tower remains, as part of @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

@londonu.bsky.social was, I think, the less ornate building on the right

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An old colour picture postcard showing four pictures of different concrete and glass buildings, all set in grassland with trees. Acrosss the middle of the postcard is printed "Loughborough Colleges"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of what became in 1966 @lborouniversity.bsky.social

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An old monochrome picture postcard showing a London street scene with three story brick and stone building. In large letters on the building is Borough Polytechnic Institute Opened 1892

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Borough Polytechnic, which later became London South Bank University

Opened in 1892, as the sign says!

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An old colour picture postcard showing a striking image of a window set into a concrete wall, reflecting a colourful background; below is a sign reading "Houghon Street", an air conditioning unit with two vents that lookm like wide open eyes, and a litter bin

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of LSE

This was outside the old Three Tuns - the @lsesu.bsky.social bar - and the aircon unit does look like it has Seen Things

All gone now, because the concrete never sets on LSE

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An old colour picture postcard showing an aerial view of the main building and courtyard of St David's College, Lampeter: a pleasant yellow-stone building with a central gateway, small towers on the wings, and a fountain in the quadrangle

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of St David's College, Lampeter, now part of @uwtsd.bsky.social

Shared on a Sunday because it is 1 March - Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus, pawb!

#DyddGwylDewiHapus #StDavidsDay

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An old colour picture postcard showing buildings in a tropical location, with blue skies, and, incongruously, two mini cars

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the University of Malaya, in Kuala Lumpur, which looks very inviting hen seen from a gloomy February in Britain

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An old colour picture postcard showing a grand concrete building set in a 1960s streetscene. A red bus is on the road, a well dressed couple walk on the pavement. The sky is such a beautiful blue, and the old Owens College building in the distance is very grubby.

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the Students Union at @manchester.ac.uk

And here's a bonus jigsaw of the card, just because the sky is such a beautiful blue!!

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An old monochrome picture postcard of a brick built gothic-ish building. The image occupies 5/8 of the card; printed top right is Manchester, and below New Technical School. The image has cut outs for the windows and the crescent moon, and a sheet of lighter paper is sandwiched behind.

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the Technical School, Manchester - once UMIST, now part of @manchester.ac.uk

If you hold the card up to the light, all the windows and the moon look lit up

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An old colour picture postcard showing a Georgian grand house with ivy and trees, set in open parkland. Printed at the top left of the card is "St Mark's College, Chelsea"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of St Mark's College, Chelsea, which merged with St John's College and in the 1950's moved to Plymouth, where it is now @marjonuni.bsky.social

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An old monochrome picture postcard showing a grand brick and stone Georgian mansion, with a classical statue in the foreground. Printed at the foot of the card is "The College, Trent Park, Cockfosters"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Trent Park, which was for a while part of Middlesex University

During WW2 it was a prisoner of war camp with hidden microphones to try to elicit intelligence from the officer POWs

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An old colur picture postcard showing two pictures: on the top modern blocks providing student housing; the lower picture shows a Victorian brick built college building

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Crewe and Alsager College, once an HEI in its own right; then merged with @manmetuni.bsky.social

I don't think either of these campuses are still in use by MMU

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An old monochrome picture postcard showing an aerial view of a Moroccan city in the 1930s - the university /mosque complex is at the centre of the card

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Al Quaraouiyine University, Fez: founded in 857-859 as a mosque, and rapidly becoming a centre of higher learning

Here's my blog on it for @wonkhe.bsky.social buff.ly/txS0FRD

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An old colour picture postcard in portrait format showing an ornate clock tower in a gothic style next to smaller buildings. Printed at the top of the card is "University Library and Clock Tower, Bombay"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the clock tower at the University of Mumbai

Founded in 1857, it now has well over half a million students at its campuses and affiliated colleges

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An old colour picture postcard showing a mural: in the background, a print of the main building of the University of Groningen; superimposed at the front an image of an academic profession, all gowns and hats and ruffles

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of University of Groningen | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen @rug.nl

Founded in 1614 by the City of Groningen, it is the second oldest uni in the Netherlands

Tagging @stephenjones.eu

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An old picture postcard showing the clock-tower at the University of Auckland. The image shows a white stone octagonal tower with clocks on alternate faces; the stone is carved into interesting patters,. There a very blue sky and a tree in full lea. Printed at the foot of the card is "Glockenturm der Universitat von Auckland"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @aucklanduni.bsky.social - also known as Waipapa Taumata Rau in the Maori language

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An old monochrome picture postcard showing a view of large townhouses at the top of a gently sloping, built-up hill. Printed at the foot of the card is "Otago University, Showing University Professors' Residences, Dunedin"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @universityofotago.bsky.social, also called Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka in Māori

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An old colour picture postcard showing a photograph of a 1960s concrete and class building, four floors high, with a clock tower to one side. The clock shows 12 noon, and judging by the shadows it might be accurate rather than stopped. Printed at the foot fo the card is "Administration Building, University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @waikatouniversity.bsky.social showing, in all its glory, the Administration Building

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An old colour picture postcard showing a redbrick college building with stone around the windows and a central tower. Printed at the top of the card is "Armstrong College from the NW, Newcastle-upon-Tyne" There is also handwriting in ink which is mostly hard to decipher but might be signed H Jensen

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Armstrong College, which became @newcastleuni.bsky.social

There's less green space about it nowadays

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An old monochrome picture postcard showing a dining room, set for lunch with white tablecloths and place settings. At the foot of the card is printed "The Norland Institute"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Norland College, now known as Norland, which specialises in childcare

I wrote a blog about Norland for @wonkhe.bsky.social a couple of years ago:

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An old monochrome picture postcard showing a 1950s concrete and glass oblong building set on a suburban road. Printed in typeface at the foot of the card is "College of Technology, St George's Avenue, Northampton"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uninorthampton.bsky.social - back in the day when it was college of technology, and hadn't moved to its new campus

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An old monochrome picture postcard showing a group (maybe 25 or so) smartly dressed young men, posing before a building by sand dunes. A sign top left says "ARP SHELTER D"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard showing a group from Rutherford College, the forerunner to Northumbria University

On the back of the card is written in pencil "Rutherford College, May 1943"

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An old colour picture postcard showing an aerial photograph of Newcastle city centre: buildings, roads, train tracks, a few trees, a glimpse of a park

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Newcastle city centre, showing parts of both @newcastleuni.bsky.social and @northumbriauni.bsky.social

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An old monochrome picture postcard in portrait orientation showing a Victorian brick building by a river and bridge, with a small clock tower on the corner. Printed at the foot of the card is Norwich - Technical Institute"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of what is now Norwich University of the Arts

I wrote about this last summer for @wonkhe.bsky.social - buff.ly/rRR1NSA

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An old colour picture postcard showing a white stone building above a lake; the building is in monumental style, neo classical with a campanile. At the foot of the card is printed "Nottingham, the University"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

This is the Trent Building, the centrepiece of the university's campus

Which campus has on it a crazy-golf course. And a foot-golf course.

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