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Since its implementation in the city of Ávila, there have been several venues that have hosted the Teaching studies, adding to this the circumstance that for decades male and female students studied separately. This has contributed to the fact that, from the 1840s to the present day, different buildings have been designed, reused and rebuilt to house a unique teaching system marked from the beginning by the need for classrooms for the development of both theoretical and practical classes. This specificity, together with the growing number of students and the precarious conditions in some cases, led to successive campuses until the current one was built in the 1980s under the institutional protection of the University of Salamanca.

Este artículo reseña: Alberto Carrillo-Linares (ed.). Depurados, represaliados y exiliados. La pérdida universitaria durante el franquismo. Granada: Editorial Comares - Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2021, 168 pp.

From 1965 the Spanish University will become a continuous focus of opposition to the regime to the ancient academic structures. Little by little all the university districts will join the protests that, until then, monopolized Madrid and Barcelona. One of the moments of greatest tension and open confrontation with the academic and government authorities will be 1972. Demonstrations, academic strikes, strikes and other protest actions led to the closure of faculties and entire campuses, disciplinary proceedings, etc. The vindication-repression binomial reached in 1972 one of the most critical and important moments.

Este artículo reseña: Albany Flores Garca. Academia y Estado. Orígenes de la Universidad de Honduras, 1830-1847. Tegucigalpa: Editorial universitaria, 2019, 106 pp.

The text deals with the intention of the Counts of Val and the Bishop of Salamanca to provide doctorate chairs in Law linked to the University of Salamanca under the supervision of a board created in last wills in Salamanca. This intention, very difficult to fulfill, was echoed in the Salamanca press and gave rise to a heated debate between the two social and political factions in which Salamanca society and Spanish society in general were divided.

This research report attempts to show the basic lines of student history research in relation to the period from 1810 to 1945. It is thus primarily concerned with the period that is referred to in university history research as the “classical phase” (Peter Moraw). After an overview of fundamental questions about the era, it gives an overview of the history of student fraternities, whose importance cannot be overestimated. However, since student history is not limited to fraternity history, it then describes the relationship between student and fraternity history since the 19th century as a kind of elective affinity. In this context, particular attention is paid to the not always easy relationship between professional researchers and laypersons interested in student history, often members of student fraternities. The following part is devoted to the “Sonderweg theory” in student history, i.e., the thesis that student fraternities were a particularly characteristic form of expression of the “German Sonderweg”. Finally, the last part deals in detail with more recent tendencies in student historiography since the late 1990s, especially on Catholic student life, student violence, Jewish students and anti-Semitism, as well as female students and gender-historical approaches. As an important desideratum, genuine cultural aspects of student history are identified. Nonetheless, student history has nowadays developed into a flourishing branch of university history.

The development of a scholarly and objective historiography of students in the Habsburg monarchy and the First Austrian Republic only began at the end of the twentieth century. Several factors explain why it was only after gaining a certain temporal and emotional distance that historians were able to write a more scientifically objective history of universities and students. It was not until the middle of the 19th century that students, who were strictly controlled by the state and the Catholic Church until 1859, were able to emerge as an independent group of actors. The multitude of associations founded according to the ideal model of the German fraternities were subject to a highly ideological polarisation process. This also extends to the professoriate of the university, which was belatedly established as an autonomous institution. Therefore, the history and humanities departments in particular became the forerunners of a nationalist antisemitic ideology rather than rationally scientific critical instances. The politics of exclusion continued uninterruptedly into the First Republic and ultimately led to the loss of university autonomy and the students’ right of free association after Austria became part of the National Socialist German Reich in 1938.

Historians of Britain and Ireland have long been interested in universities and students. They have acknowledged the importance of these institutions and individuals within the history of elites, the history of the state, intellectual history, the history of science, of social movements and of politics and political thought. Yet, for many years much of this research has centred around higher education institutions themselves rather than the student body that they cater for. Following the expansion of the higher education sector and the growth of the student movement in the 1960s the quantity and quality of literature on British and Irish students, rather than the institutions that they studied at, has grown substantially and has become a burgeoning historical field. This article surveys the development of this historiography and the key research perspectives on students in Britain and Ireland from 1800-1945, focusing on five thematic areas: student culture, student representation and politics, student life during war, students race and empire, and student women - to track the progress, development and connections between the different strands of this historiography over the past fifty years and to offer insights into potential avenues for further research.

Historians’ interest in university history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been more limited in the case of France than for other countries. This interest has been even weaker with regard to students, a situation that only began to change at the beginning of the twenty-first century. However, pioneering work could have launched a research dynamic from the 1980s onwards, as the first part of this article shows and explains. In its second part, this paper analyzes the main themes addressed by the historiography of students in France. After underlining some of its persistent limitations, proposals for future research will be made.

Este artículo hace un balance de los estudios sobre los estudiantes universitarios españoles de 1800 a 1950. Presenta su evolución histórica, su crecimiento, su vida comunitaria, sus ideologías y las protestas que activaron. El artículo muestra la evolución historiográfica desde la historia cuantitativa hasta la historia social y cultural, y sugiere algunas nuevas perspectivas.