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The University of Wolverhampton is a public university located on four campuses across the West Midlands, Shropshire and Staffordshire in England. The roots of the university lie in the Wolverhampton Tradesmen's and Mechanics' Institute founded in 1827 and the 19th-century growth of the Wolverhampton Free Library (1870), which developed ...
This is a list of notable people related to the University of Wolverhampton and its predecessor institutions, such as Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College, Wolverhampton and Staffordshire College of Technology, Wolverhampton College of Art, and The Polytechnic, Wolverhampton.
Wolverhampton ( / ˌwʊlvərˈhæmptən / ⓘ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. Located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Birmingham, the population in 2021 was 263,700. [3] Historically in Staffordshire, the city grew as a market town specialising in the wool trade.
Paul McDonald (born 1961 in Walsall) is a British academic, comic novelist, and poet. [1] He teaches English and American Literature at the University of Wolverhampton, where he also runs the Creative and Professional Writing Programme. He left school at 16 and began work as a saddlemaker, an occupation that provides the backdrop for his first ...
St Peter's Collegiate Church is located in central Wolverhampton, England. For many centuries it was a chapel royal and from 1480 a royal peculiar, independent of the Diocese of Lichfield and even the Province of Canterbury. The collegiate church was central to the development of the town of Wolverhampton, much of which belonged to its dean. Until the 18th century, it was the only church in ...
Also place here articles relating to alumni of the University of Wolverhampton 's predecessor institutions, such as Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College, Wolverhampton and Staffordshire College of Technology, Wolverhampton College of Art and The Polytechnic, Wolverhampton.
The University of Wolverhampton is a British university, located on four campuses across the West Midlands and Shropshire in England. The main campus is located on Wulfruna Street in Wolverhampton . Wikimedia Commons has media related to University of Wolverhampton.
Peter Anthony James "Tank" Waddington (6 March 1947 – 21 March 2018), often credited as P. A. J. Waddington was a British police officer and later an academic at the University of Wolverhampton, [1] in the United Kingdom. He is known for his research and works on policing and social policy; in particular he is credited for inventing the controversial police tactic of kettling .