When Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne in February 1952, the world was a very different place. Space flight was still a dream, segregation was still legal in the USA and Ripon College and...
When the training school moved from York to Ripon, Ripon College was born. A purpose-built space for women to learn how to be teachers, the Ripon of the 1860s was very different to the...
The year is 1841 and Edward Cordukes has just signed our register, officially becoming York St John’s first ever student. He was soon followed by a few others, eventually snowballing into the thriving university...
We all know the basic story of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: Scrooge is so caught up in saving (and hoarding) money that he doesn’t care about Christmas, is cruel to his employee Bob...