City St George's, University of London
City began in 1894 as the Northampton Institute, a Clerkenwell venture in technical and evening education, and grew into the university that trains a striking share of Britain's working journalists — its postgraduate journalism courses are the nearest thing the trade has to a guild school. Its business school renamed itself after the Reverend Thomas Bayes in 2021, probability's quiet clergyman.
St George's, in Tooting, traces its teaching to the hospital's pupils from 1733; Edward Jenner learned there under the surgeon John Hunter in the 1770s, a decade before vaccination. The 2024 merger fused a polytechnic-descended civic university with a specialist medical school: Clerkenwell and Tooting, one charter, two campuses, and two and a half centuries of combined memory.
Field notes
- The Bayes Business School is named for the eighteenth-century clergyman whose theorem underlies everything from spam filters to medical trials.
- Edward Jenner, of vaccination, trained at St George's in the 1770s.
- City's journalism department keeps a radio station, a newsroom and a law court — all working, all student-run.
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In brief — from the field guide
An unusual 2024 marriage: a Clerkenwell civic college known for journalism and business, united with a medical school whose lineage runs to 1733 and the teaching wards of St George's Hospital.
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