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Located in south-east London and specialising in the study of creative, cultural and social subjects. Degree programmes, student life and departmental research.
Goldsmiths, University of London, legally the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in New Cross, London.
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About Goldsmiths, University of London. Founded in 1891 in New Cross in south-east London, The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute (today known as Goldsmiths) was set up to provide an education to working class people of the area.
‘The title of the Institute [formerly known as the Goldsmiths’ Institute, New Cross] shall be “University of London, Goldsmiths’ College.”‘ These are the key dates when what is now Goldsmiths, University of London was truly founded and started- 29th June and 23rd November 1904. There was, though, a hierarchy and status implied here.
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