That’s So Goldsmiths- the history of Goldsmiths University of London
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.
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 expected to be published in book form in 2024 to mark the 120th anniversary of Goldsmiths which was founded as a College of the University of London in 1904 and began teaching its first students in the autumn of 1905 when it was formally opened.
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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 1893.