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A monthly exploration into the world of sustainability in the built environment with commentary and input from UCEM’s Vice Chancellor and academics.
The Women's Land Army had been established during the First World War to increase Britain's food production, and was revived in 1939. At its peak in 1943, 80,000 women served…
The portrait of John Worsley that hangs in the Worsley meeting room on the 2nd floor of Horizon's is distinctive in its depiction of the two sides of the subject's…
Richard Parry ran a Surveying practice in Parliament Street, London. In 1891, he decided to expand from practice into teaching, and established a tutorial school to coach students for their…
With a history of educating service personnel, when war broke out in 1939, The College of Estate Management delivered correspondence courses to over 13,000 servicemen at home and abroad. The…
The Students' Union was established in 1930 and, after the war, the student life of the College returned to its former glory. Colours Awards were recorded between the 1940s and…
The College of Estate Management's first permanent home was at 35 Lincoln's Inn Fields, which CEM inhabited from its purchase in 1921 until the Second World War. Upon purchasing the…
In August 1942, an article was written using the words of a POW (who calls himself 'the Headmaster') in a letter to Miss Ethel Herdman, who ran the Educational Books…
The Channel Islands were the only British territory to be occupied by Germany during the Second World War. Upon the occupation of the Channel Islands, thousands of civilians were deported…
The Coat of Arms was granted to the College of Estate Management on 24th June 1929, bearing the motto ‘Ex Cultu Robur’ which can be interpreted as ‘Strength through knowledge’.…
The most devastating blow to the College came with the Blitz. The premises in Lincoln's Inn Fields was damaged by enemy action in the Autumn of 1940, before being devastated by…
The bespoke gates at the College of Estate Management's premises at Hinchley Woods, Surrey, provided an impressive entrance to the 34 acre site. However, during the Second World War, metal…
