Royal Pharmaceutical Society

London

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is the body responsible for the leadership and support of the pharmacy profession within England, Scotland and Wales. It was created along with the General Pharmaceutical Council in September 2010 when the previous Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was split so that representative and regulatory functions of the pharmacy profession could be separated. Although membership of the Society is not a prerequisite for engaging in practice as a pharmacist within the United Kingdom, most practising pharmacists opt to join the Society because of the benefits offered by membership. Its predecessor the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was founded on 15 April 1841.

Ruskin Library

Lancaster (Lancashire)

The Ruskin Library is a library of the University of Lancaster which houses the Whitehouse Collection of material relating to the English poet, author and artist John Ruskin and his circle. This collection was formed by John Howard Whitehouse, Liberal Member of Parliament.

St Andrews Museum

St Andrews

The St Andrews Museum is a museum focusing on the history of the town of St Andrews in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

Congregational Memorial Hall

City of London

The Congregational Memorial Hall in Farringdon Street, London was built to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Great Ejection of Black Bartholomew's Day, resulting from the 1662 Act of Uniformity which restored the Anglican church. The two thousand puritan ministers who refused to take the oath of conformity thereby established non-conformism. The architect of the hall was John Tarring. The hall was built upon the site of the Fleet Prison in Farringdon Street. It opened in 1875 and served as a meeting place and home for the Congregational Library. Other progressive organisations met there including the Labour Party which was founded at a meeting there on 27 February 1900 initially under the name of the Labour Representation Committee. The hall was demolished in 1968 and Caroone House was built on the site — an office which was used by British Telecom for its international business and telephone tapping.In 1978 the Congregational Memorial Hall Trust was established to handle income from Caroone House and then from the capital raised from its sale. The income is used to maintain the Congregational Library and give grants to the three bodies represented on the trust, the United Reformed Church, the Congregational Federation and the Evangelical Fellowship of Congregational Churches.

Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne

The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne is a historical library in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and the largest independent library outside London. The library is still available for both lending and as a free reference library.

Jesmond Dene House

Newcastle upon Tyne

Jesmond Dene, a public park in the east end of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, occupies the narrow steep-sided valley of a small river known as the Ouseburn, flowing south to join the River Tyne: in north-east England, such valleys are commonly known as denes: the name 'Jesmond' meaning 'mouth of the Ouseburn'.Lord Armstrong and his wife, of the now-demolished Jesmond Dean house nearby, first laid out the park during the 1860s. The design is intended to reflect a rural setting, with woodland, crags, waterfalls and pools. Lord Armstrong gave the park to the people of Newcastle, and it is now owned by Newcastle City Council. The current Jesmond Dene House adjoining the dene was the mansion of Armstrong's business partner Andrew Noble. It is now a luxury hotel.The iron-constructed Armstrong Bridge spans the south end of the Dene and hosts Jesmond Food Market every first and third Saturday of the month. The building of a replacement road and tunnel, the Cradlewell By-pass, was the subject of a road protest camp around 1993, due to the destruction of many 200-year-old trees. Jesmond Dene contains a free-entry petting zoo known as "Pets' Corner", which has been a popular family attraction since the 1960s.Jesmond Dene is home to Newcastle's oldest religious building, St Mary's Chapel. The chapel, now in ruins, was once a site of much significance, attracting a great number of pilgrims.The park is supported by a group called 'Friends of Jesmond Dene' which provides funds for small projects to improve the park. There is also a group of Volunteer Rangers which carries out physical work tidying the paths, picking up litter, cutting back shrubs and other maintenance tasks. The dawn chorus of Jesmond Dene has been professionally recorded and has been used in various workplace and hospital rehabilitation facilities.In 2011, the field area and pets corner were redeveloped. The redevelopment included a new road and a bridge over the Ouseburn river.In 2012, during excessively wet weather, a landslide occurred on the east side of the Dene, near the Old Mill. The landslide covered several footpaths running along the hillside. The paths are currently still closed as the cost of re-opening them would be excessive. In July 2014, the Old Mill in the Dene was vandalised with graffiti tags, which has since been removed.On 1 April 2019, control and upkeep of Jesmond Dene, along with other Newcastle parks, was passed from Newcastle City Council to a newly created charitable trust, Urban Green Newcastle.

University of Dundee

Dundee

Die Universität Dundee wurde 1881 als University College gegründet und ist heute die größte Universität in Dundee in Schottland. Das Motto der Universität lautet Magnificat anima mea dominum . Kanzlerin i. S. v. Repräsentantin ist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell .

University of Essex

Colchester

Die University of Essex ist eine Campus-Universität im Wivenhoe Park am Stadtrand von Colchester im County Essex, etwa 1 km entfernt vom Ort Wivenhoe. Sie ist eine der in den 1960er-Jahren entstandenen Campus-Universitäten und hat ihre Royal Charter 1965 erhalten. Seit dem Jahr 2000 ist auch die Schauspielschule East 15 Acting School in Loughton Teil der Universität. Daneben besteht ein Campus in Southend-on-Sea. Die Universität gliedert sich in 22 Fakultäten der Geisteswissenschaften, Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften. Besonders bekannt sind die Bereiche Volkswirtschaft, Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie sowie das „Human Rights Centre“. Die Universität ist Teil der „1994 Group“ von neueren, forschungsstarken Universitäten und hat einen sehr hohen Anteil ausländischer Studenten, fast 40 %; nur die London School of Economics and Political Science und die School of Oriental and African Studies in London haben einen höheren Anteil ausländischer Studenten. Am Institute for Social and Economic Research wird seit 1991 die British Household Panel Survey durchgeführt.

University of Sussex

Stanmer

Die englische University of Sussex wurde 1961 als erste der zahlreichen neuen Universitäten der 1960er gegründet. Ihr Campus befindet sich in einem Naturschutzgebiet nahe dem Ort Falmer in East Sussex. Die Universität wurde vom Times Higher Education auf Platz 8 der besten Universitäten in England gewählt. Auch international zählt Sussex laut dem THE World University Ranking mit Platz 16 in Europa und Platz 79 in der Welt zu den angesehensten Universitäten.