The formation of the universities the first Oxford colleges the first Cambridge colleges 1450-1550: the colleges take over 1550-1640: Cranmer to Laud - the Anglican establishment at Cambridge and Oxford, the new colleges in Cambridge, the statutes of 1570, religious change - recusants and Puritans, the changing pattern of entry, Oxford - Jesus, Wadham and Pembroke, libraries and printing presses - Sir Thomas Bodley, new subjects to study, links with Parliament and the Crown, Oxford, the Stuarts and William Laud from the age of Cromwell to the age of Newton Oxford and Cambridge in the eighteenth century: Cambridge from Bentley to Wordsworth 1800-1920: the Cambridge of Hopkins and Whewell, the Oxford of Newman, Cambridge and Oxford in the age of Pattison and Jowett 1880-1920 the mid twentieth century.