Leicester College of Art Diaries 1936-1962

Leicester Colleges of Art and Technology

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The School of Pharmacy was founded under the Leicester Municipal Technical and Art School in 1909. Now part of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, it still teaches from its original base in the Hawthorn Building. From its establishment until 1969, Pharmacy, in addition to nursing, was offered as part of the Technical School courses. Pharmacy already had its own school set up unlike nursing which came under Biology. However a formal Faculty or department did not exist until the Polytechnic w...

City of Leicester College of Arts and Crafts, 1925-1929

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Leicester College of Arts and Crafts

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Bookbinding was first offered at the Leicester School of Art in the 1901-02 session. The prospectus stated that ' practical instruction will be given in all the branches of the craft '. By the 1930s teaching had expanded and the subject was taught as part of the Department of Printing and Book Production which offered day and evening classes for apprentices and journeymen in bookbinding and machine ruling. The course was designed to lead to the City and Guilds Institute qualificatio...