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and called for major and consultative review of the art curriculum, supported by sympathetic academic staff and visiting artists. They offered a major critique of the education system at the time. Some of these documents were presented as part of a project called The Hornsey Project. The college was repossessed by local authorities at the beginning of the summer break.
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During 1968, the college was the scene of protests when students occupied the Crouch End Hill site. Students attending the multi-site college convened to discuss the withdrawal of Student Union funds and resolved to sit-in. During this period they effected a temporary administration of the college,
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Hornsey achieved notoriety because of the scale of the all-night protests and sit-ins, which were copied in similar art schools around the UK. During the six weeks that the sit-in lasted, Hornsey became the focus of debate about the method of art education and teaching in Britain. Hornsey was, and
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Middlesex University vacated the Crouch End building in the 1980s. The building was then used by the TUC as a training and conference centre. Since 2008, the building has been a part of Coleridge Primary School, upon its expansion to four-form entry.
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In 1955 the school became the Hornsey College of Arts and Crafts and continued under that name until 1973, when it was merged with Enfield Technical College and Hendon Technical College as part of Middlesex Polytechnic. The Polytechnic later became
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The college was founded in 1880 as the Hornsey School of Arts by Charles Swinstead, an artist and teacher who lived at Crouch End, Hornsey. The college passed to his son,
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Patricia Holland's Hornsey Film "reconstructs the arguments and succession of events that led to the occupation of Hornsey College of Art between May and July 1968".
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The HCA was "an iconic British art institution, renowned for its experimental and progressive approach to art and design education".
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Part of the Hornsey Archive is currently held at Middlesex University in the Sheppard Library as one of their special collections.
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In April 1969 a follow-up mock funeral procession, performed by students of the art school, declared "the death of Hornsey Hope".
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still is, afforded the blame for these disturbances that swept the student fraternity nationwide.
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and was one of only two London art schools which did not leave the capital during the blitz.
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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys
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Our Live Experiment is Worth More Than 3,000 Textbooks
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Students and staff of Hornsey College of Art (1969).
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Index

art school
Crouch End
Hornsey
Middlesex
England
London Borough of Haringey
Middlesex Polytechnic
Frank Swinstead
Second World War
Middlesex University
Kim Howells
Tony Blair
Tom Nairn
Penguin Books
John Goldschmidt
Granada Television


Viv Albertine
Stuart Brisley
Graham Lewis
Neville Brody
Michael Casson
Michelle Cartlidge
Eileen Chandler
Peter Cook
Wendy Dagworthy
Royal College of Art
Joseph Darracott
Ray Davies

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