Editing Crouch End (section)

===Hornsey College of Art===
{{Main|Hornsey College of Art}}
In 1880 an art school was established by Charles Swinstead, an artist and teacher who lived at Crouch End. It became "an iconic British art institution, renowned for its experimental and progressive approach to art and design education". In May 1968, as [[Hornsey College of Art]], it was occupied by students as a protest against the ideology of art education and teaching in Britain.<ref>[http://www.1968andallthat.net/node/82 What happened at Hornsey in May 1968 — Nick Wright] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006071952/http://www.1968andallthat.net/node/82 |date=2011-10-06 }}.</ref> The occupation, soon joined by others around the country, and linked with similar events in Paris, offered a major critique of the education system at the time.<ref name="penguin">{{cite book|author=Students and staff of Hornsey College of Art |title=The Hornsey Affair |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] Education |year=1969 |isbn=9780140800968}}</ref>

After the authorities regained control, known as the "night of the dogs", sympathetic lecturers and students who had taken part (including [[Tom Nairn]] and [[Kim Howells]]) were dismissed. Later the college was merged with Middlesex Polytechnic, now University, in the 1970s. Subsequently, it was relocated to a Middlesex campus at Alexandra Palace and the lease of the building taken over by the [[Trades Union Congress|TUC]], which used it as its national training centre. In 2005 Haringey Council took it over, extending and converting the building in order to enlarge Coleridge Primary School.