Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of portraits vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Sources ix
6. Abbreviations x
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I: The Political Arena
9. 1. The Senate 13
10. 2. Convocation: membership and participation 20
11. 3. Convocation: the Annual Committee 27
12. 4. Personages, officers, and examiners 32
13. 5. The political community 43
14. Part II: An Uneasy Beginning
15. 6. Convocation’s medical militants 51
16. 7. The ambitions of Charles James Foster 69
17. Part III: Degrees for Women
18. 8. The campaign and defeat of Elizabeth Garrett 85
19. 9. The General Examination for Women 98
20. 10. The consequences of Gurney’s Act 117
21. 11. Constitutional complications: Parliament or Charter? 128
22. 12. The final hurdle 140
23. Part IV: The Parliamentary Seat to 1886
24. 13. A trial run 147
25. 14. Choosing Robert Lowe 155
26. 15. Sir John Lubbock: Liberal into Liberal Unionist 169
27. Part V: The University and Secondary Education
28. 16. The schools lobby 183
29. 17. Matriculation: Greek or Chemistry? 189
30. 18. Inspection of schools 202
31. 19. Training the teachers: qualifications and registration 211
32. Part VI: Examining and Teaching – the Long and Crooked Road to Compromise
33. 20. The case for change 221
34. 21. Convocation’s pursuit of power and reconstruction 227
35. 22. One, two, or three universities? 243
36. 23. Things falling apart 259
37. 24. The Selborne Commission 273
38. 25. Confusion worse confounded 285
39. 26. A Charter rejected 298
40. 27. One or two universities? 308
41. 28. Neither Albert nor Gresham 323
42. 29. The Cowper Commission 332
43. 30. Anxiety and division in Convocation 348
44. 31. Lions, beaters, and the fall of the Rosebery Government 367
45. 32. The pre-emptive strike of Sir John Lubbock 382
46. 33. The doubts of the Duke of Devonshire 396
47. 34. The strength of bishops and provincials 405
48. 35. A compromise refused 418
49. 36. The insistence of Arthur Balfour 430
50. 37. New era – old divisions 446
51. Appendix 462
52. Index 465