{"id":2428,"date":"2012-07-28T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T23:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2012-08-06T16:04:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T15:04:30","slug":"178-years-since-denial-of-monarchs-declaration-of-an-open-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2428","title":{"rendered":"178 years since denial of monarch&#8217;s declaration of an open university"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2432\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Gal_nations_edward_i1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2432\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2432\" title=\"Gal_nations_edward_i\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Gal_nations_edward_i1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward I<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Edward I (1239 \u20131307) is alleged to have gone to Cambridge and declared it to be \u2018an open university \u2013 open to all\u2019, thus making him one of the earliest users of the term Open University. However, Henry Goulburn, the MP for Cambridge who spoke in the Commons on \u00a028 July 1834, \u00a0(this from a report of the Commons Debate in <em>The Times<\/em><strong> <\/strong>29.7.1834) argued this was unlikely as on Edward\u2019s death the only known college in Cambridge was Peterhouse. Still, an alleged use of the term in about 1300 makes this the earliest reference. Unless, of course you know of earlier uses of the term.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: This image is in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Gal_nations_edward_i.jpg\"title=\"public domain info\"  onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/en.wikipedia.org');\">public domain.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward I (1239 \u20131307) is alleged to have gone to Cambridge and declared it to be \u2018an open university \u2013 open to all\u2019, thus making him one of the earliest users of the term Open University. However, Henry Goulburn, the MP for Cambridge who spoke in the Commons on \u00a028 July 1834, \u00a0(this from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2434,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}