Qualla: University of London https://qualla.com/university-of-london en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/university-of-london-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: University of London https://qualla.com/university-of-london University of London: Introduction https://qualla.com/university-of-london/ Photo credit Philafrenzy, CC BY-SA 4.0. The story is probably apocryphal, but Londoners have been telling it since 1945. The reason Senate House survived the Blitz, the legend says, was that Adolf Hitler had picked out the white Portland-stone tower for his London headquarters and ordered the Luftwaffe to leave it alone. The truth is that Senate House did take bomb hits and emerged largely intact. The legend persists because the building looks the part - Charles Holden's massive 1932-37 art deco tower in Bloomsbury, the second-tallest building in London when it was finished, designed with the brief "not to suggest a passing fashion inappropriate to buildings which will house an institution of so permanent a character as a University." George Orwell used it as the model for the Ministry of Truth in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/university-of-london-wp/gcpv-university-of-london-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full University of London: An Examining Board for the Empire https://qualla.com/university-of-london/ Photo credit KiloCharlieLima, CC BY-SA 4.0. When the University of London received its first royal charter in November 1836, it was not a university in any normal sense. It owned no buildings. It taught no students. It was an examining board with the power to grant degrees - in arts, laws and medicine, but not theology - t...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/university-of-london-wp/gcpv-university-of-london-an-examining-board-for-the-empire.mp3 0:06 2 full University of London: The External Degree https://qualla.com/university-of-london/ Photo credit Aurelien Guichard from London, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0. This is the part of the story that does not appear in most rankings. The University of London External Programme - now called University of London Worldwide - allowed students anywhere in the world to study for a London degree without ever travelling to London. The list of major ...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/university-of-london-wp/gcpv-university-of-london-the-external-degree.mp3 0:06 3 full University of London: From Examination Board to Federation https://qualla.com/university-of-london/ Photo credit Alex Blandford, CC BY 2.0. The university operated as a pure examining body for sixty years, accused increasingly of being a centre for the administration of tests rather than a place of teaching. By the 1890s UCL and King's were threatening to break away and form a separate "teaching university" - various...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/university-of-london-wp/gcpv-university-of-london-from-examination-board-to-federation.mp3 0:06 4 full University of London: The Headquarters at Senate House https://qualla.com/university-of-london/ Photo credit Shadowssettle, CC BY-SA 4.0. The university had bounced from Somerset House (1837-1870) to 6 Burlington Gardens (1870-1900) to the Imperial Institute in South Kensington (1900s-1920s) to its current Bloomsbury site, acquired from the Duke of Bedford. Charles Holden was hired to build something permanent. His...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/university-of-london-wp/gcpv-university-of-london-the-headquarters-at-senate-house.mp3 0:06 5 full University of London: Two Million Alumni https://qualla.com/university-of-london/ Photo credit Anne Koerber, CC BY-SA 4.0. The number is approximate but the scale is correct. Around two million people hold University of London degrees. They include Nobel laureates (98 affiliated with the university across its institutions), Fields Medalists (five), Turing Award winners (four), Oscar winners (two), Gr...

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