The history of Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor Tim Crook has been researching and writing on the history of Goldsmiths, University of London since 2016 and much of the detailed output has been and continues to be published on the University’s Goldsmiths History Project online site.
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Kultura Press will be publishing in book form a series of volumes preserving the research and writing called The Goldsmiths History Series. These will be a printed formt of the online work for future book reading and library research.
The planned volumes are:
The origins and beginning of Goldsmiths University of London 1792 to 1914
The First World War and Goldsmiths University of London 1914 to 1919
The Nineteen Twenties and Thirties at Goldsmiths University of London 1920 to 1939
The Second World War and Goldsmiths University of London 1939 to 1946
V2 on the New Cross Road 25th November 1944
Post War Goldsmiths University of London 1947 to 1959
The Sixties at Goldsmiths University of London 1960 to 1969
Late Twentieth Century at Goldsmiths University of London 1970 to1999
Early Twenty First Century Goldsmiths University of London 2000 to 2030
Other volumes commissioned are:
That’s So Goldsmiths
One Thousand Short History Stories and Pictures of Goldsmiths University of London
Goldsmiths was created to be the biggest and first non-denominational training college for teachers combined with an art school but run by the University of London in 1904-5.
So many influential figures in art, design, the humanities, and media have been graduates through the ages and include Graham Sutherland, Dame Mary Quant, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Damien Hirst, and Sir Steve McQueen who in 2014 was included in Time magazine’s annual Time 100 list of the ‘most influential people in the world.’
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Tim Crook joined Goldsmiths as a visiting lecturer in 1990. He was appointed a .7 fractional lecturer as Head of Radio in 1993, became full-time in 1995 and then Senior Lecturer in the year 2000. He was appointed Reader in Media and Communication in 2013, full professor in 2015 and retired from full-time staff in August 2020.
He continues guest lecturing and marking and pro bono as the University’s historian.
That’s So Goldsmiths- the history of Goldsmiths University of London is just one of the volumes expected to be published in book form for the Goldsmiths History Series commemorating a College and University which in 2025 will enjoy its 120th anniversary.
As University of London, Goldsmiths’ College it began teaching its first students in the autumn of 1905 when it was formally opened.
Online multimedia chapters under construction and in progress
Bringing to life the students, staff and culture of a unique university
The image above shows the back of Goldsmiths main building covered in red Virginia creeper- a somewhat iconic image for Goldsmiths alumni who will remember this when they joined for their first term in October and then the following years. This block, by the architect Sir Reginald Blomfield, was originally designed for the College’s famous Art School which is, in fact, older than the University having originated with the founding of the Goldsmiths’ Company’s Technical and Recreative Institute in 1891.