Leicester College of Art War Work 1939-1945 1947

Leicester College of Art

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The Leicester School of Art was founded in 1870, the Leicester Technical School in 1882. In 1897 the Schools were taken over by the Town Council of the County Borough of Leicester and renamed the Leicester Municipal Technical and Art School. A new building (now known as the Hawthorn Building) was constructed allowing the art and technical classes to be brought together for the first time. While they shared premises, the Schools were run by separate Principals who reported to a Sub-C...

Leicester College of Art, 1929-1969

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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...