The Ultimate University of Hull - American History Information Guide and Reference

The University of Hull, also known as Hull University, is an English university in East Yorkshire which was founded in 1927. The main campus is located on Cottingham Road, in Hull (or Kingston upon Hull). Part of the campus is the home of the Hull York Medical School . The university also has a smaller campus in Scarborough.

The university was once the workplace of the former poet Philip Larkin who worked as Librarian of the Brynmor Jones Library. Former Vice-Chancellors include Professor David Dilks FRHistS FRSL.

In February 2005, the University caused controversy by scrapping its Mathematics degree course, because of falling interest, despite having received 130 applications for the coming year.

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1 Student life and activities

5.1 Student radio links

Student life and activities

Hull University Union (HUU) boasts a brand new nightclub called Asylum and a regular student newspaper Hullfire as well as its student radio station Jam 1575. Student accommodation is based in Cottingham, with Thwaite Hall and Needler hall, which are traditional halls, and "The Lawns", which is a complex featuring seven smaller halls with a main focal "Lawns Centre" for meals and socialising, and housing just over 1,000 students. Student housing is based primarily around the university campus itself, as well as around the Newland Avenue and Beverley Road areas of the city.

In Popular Culture

The University of Hull was referred to in the popular BBC comedy Blackadder Goes Forth in the episode General Hospital.

Blackadder hunts down a German spy operating in a British military hospital in the Great War and informs his superior with the following dialogue:

Captain Blackadder: And then the final, irrefutable proof. Remember, you mentioned a clever boyfriend...

Nurse Mary: Yes.

Captain Blackadder: I then leapt on the opportunity to test you. I asked if he'd been to one of the great universities, Oxford, Cambridge, or Hull.

Nurse Mary: Well?

Captain Blackadder: You failed to spot that only two of those are great Universities.

Nurse Mary: Swine!

General Melchett: That's right! Oxford's a complete dump!

The joke is, actually historically inaccurate as University College Hull was founded in 1927 (nine years after the First World War) and only became the University of Hull when granted a Royal Charter in 1954, however the humour of Blackadder is typically known for its anachronistic references.