Editing Plate glass university (section)

==  Beloff's plateglass universities ==
Beloff listed seven universities in his book.<ref>{{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YeS2BCfN3AYC&pg=PA7 |title = The Plateglass Universities |publisher=Secker & Warburg |date = 31 December 1968 |access-date=30 June 2017 |page = 7 |isbn = 9780838675502 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://yumagazine.co.uk/made-in-the-1960s/ |title = Made in the 1960s: What does it mean to be a plate glass university? |first = Katy |last = Sandals |work=YU Magazine |publisher=University of York |date=7 November 2016 |access-date = 30 June 2017 }}</ref> These were the seven universities approved by the UGC prior to the Robbins Report.<ref name=Robbins/>
[[File:University of Sussex.JPG|thumb|The [[University of Sussex]], the first of the plateglass generation]]
*[[University of East Anglia]] (1963)
*[[University of Essex]] (1964/5)
*[[University of Kent|University of Kent at Canterbury]] (now known as the University of Kent) (1965)
*[[Lancaster University|University of Lancaster]] (now known as Lancaster University) (1964)
*[[University of Sussex]] (1961)
*[[University of Warwick]] (1965)
*[[University of York]] (1963)

===Naming===
Unlike earlier universities in the United Kingdom, which were typically named after the city in which they were located (e.g., the [[University of Cambridge]] in [[Cambridge]]), several newer universities were named after the counties or wider regions they served. For example, universities founded in [[Colchester]] and [[Brighton]] were named after the counties of Essex and Sussex, respectively. The university in [[Canterbury]] initially adopted the name ''University of Kent at Canterbury'', combining the county name ([[Kent]]) with the city name, although this was later simplified to the University of Kent. The university on the outskirts of [[Coventry]], [[Warwickshire]] was named after the [[county town]] of [[Warwick]].{{efn|In the case of Warwick the naming was related to the acquisition of adjacent land outside the border of Coventry{{cn|date=June 2024}}}} The university in [[Norwich]], which is in the county of [[Norfolk]], was instead named for the wider area of [[East Anglia]] which also includes [[Suffolk]] and [[Essex]]. The universities in [[Lancashire]] and [[Yorkshire]] were located in the county towns of [[Lancaster, Lancashire|Lancaster]] and [[York]] respectively. There were already universities within those counties ([[University of Manchester|Manchester]] and [[University of Liverpool|Liverpool]] in Lancashire; [[University of Sheffield|Sheffield]], [[University of Leeds|Leeds]] and [[University of Hull|Hull]] in Yorkshire).

Since the passage of the [[Further and Higher Education Act 1992]] several [[New university|new universities]] and [[University college|university colleges]] have been created within the same city as a plate-glass university and have been named after the city: [[University of Brighton|Brighton]], [[Canterbury Christ Church University|Canterbury Christ Church]], [[Coventry University|Coventry]], [[Norwich University of the Arts]], [[Writtle University College|Writtle]] and [[York St John University|York St John]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kaufman |first=Paul |date=1967 |title=The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social History |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1006043 |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |volume=57 |issue=7 |pages=1–67 |doi=10.2307/1006043 |jstor=1006043 |issn=0065-9746|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

===Common references===
Certain aspects of the design of these universities acknowledges the formation of the group; for example, at Sussex the first batches of student residences to be built were named after some of the other new universities, i.e. "Essex House", "Kent House", "Lancaster House", "Norwich House" (for UEA), and "York House".