File: Research on the history of universities

Scope and Content

Miscellaneous papers and correspondence in connection with Bowden's proposed (but unwritten) history of universities, includes a copy of his 1964 paper "The functions of universities in modern society", statistics on graduate employment in the 1980s, and letters from the physicist Thomas Allibone (1903-2003) concerning Ernest Rutherford, the Cavendish Laboratory and Metropolitan Vickers Co. in the 1930s.