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The bad-tempered backstory of ‘Town Versus Gown’
2 September 20206 March 2023

The bad-tempered backstory of ‘Town Versus Gown’

Articles by Harley Richardson4 comments

The concept of ‘town versus gown’ goes all the way back to the founding of medieval universities, and has played an integral, if not always noble, role in their development.

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