TY - JOUR AU - R. J. W. Selleck PY - 1994/11/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Founding of The University of Melbourne, 1852-1855 JF - Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation JA - HSE-RHE VL - 6 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.32316/hse/rhe.v6i3.4617 UR - https://historicalstudiesineducation.ca/hse/index.php/edu_hse-rhe/article/view/4617 AB - In part this paper is about ideas, especially those held by some men in nineteenth-century Melbourne who set about establishing a university. They had carried a set of ideas about what a university should be with them as they journeyed across the world, some of them in search of a promised land. They found that turning these ideas into reality was complex and disappointing, but their struggle sheds light on the social, political, and educational life of Antipodean society. ER -