The Godless Students of London University
The founding of London’s first university was controversial, but how much truth was there to claims of its students’ radical politics and rowdy ways?
In the 1820s London was the largest city in the world. With more than a million inhabitants, it lay at the heart of an expanding empire. It was a city of learning – medical students received training in London’s many hospitals while the Inns of Court provided legal education – but it had no university.
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