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image by Ivan Sache, 9 April 2017
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The University of Cumbria was formed in 2007 by the merger of St Martin’s
College, Cumbria Institute of the Arts and University of Central
Lancashire’s Cumbria sites,
Cumbria Institute of the Arts has a long
history in Carlisle which began with the establishment of the Society for the
Encouragement of Fine Arts in October 1822. A new Academy of Arts was
established in 1823 and in 1950 was renamed as the Carlisle College of Art. The
institution was officially designated a higher education institute on 1 August
1997. To reflect its academic growth and development, the institution gained
approval from the privy council to change its name to Cumbria Institute of the
Arts in 2002.
The Lancaster campus of the University of Cumbria started life
as a barracks for the King's Own Royal Regiment and it was this association
which gave the teaching college its name - St. Martin's - after a Roman soldier
who converted to Christianity. In the late 1990s St. Martin's took over the
management of Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside.
http://www.cumbria.ac.uk - University
website
The flag of the University is white with the university's logo.
Photo
http://my.cumbria.ac.uk/AboutUs/News/Articles/201516/April/PR1523.aspx
Ivan Sache, 9 April 2017