City of Refuge

Abstract

Abstract This chapter discusses the evacuation of universities in London to the provinces during the Second World War. The largest number of students went to Cambridge, from universities such as the London School of Economics (LSE), Queen Mary College (QMC), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Bedford College, St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College (Barts), the London Hospital Medical College, and the Bartlett School of Architecture. The looks at the awareness of students of the differences between their lives in Cambridge and in London. Even with the severe dislocation, both London and Cambridge colleges benefited from this relationship. The chapter references how the LSE learned the benefits of residential accommodation, and Cambridge colleges received access to new subjects such as sociology.