History of Universities: XXXVIII/1 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Chapter 3 of this work is available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International open access licence. This part of the work is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.