Not really a proper timeline, just an idea I had while in town today - it's my first thread, don't be too harsh[/newbie]
Traditionally on the founding of an English University, the founding college is named the University College - this happens with the multi-college universities (Oxford, Cambridge, London) as well as the more 'modern' ones such as Liverpool (the university buildings still bear a tablet proclaiming them to belong to 'University College Liverpool', although it's the only college in the University as it exists today).
What if, instead of remaining as a single college after its founding, the university develops along Oxbridge lines, with many colleges spread out across the city under the 'umbrella' of Liverpool University? Will it become a renowned university town like the southern cities (although not particularly resembling them - it is, after all, a working port and major commerce centre)? How will this affect its status as a commercial centre, or its mostly working-class, immigrant and immigrant-descended populace? (Liverpool was, at the time, the second city of the Empire, in just about every respect - good and bad).
Will the city still be the centre of the Battle of the Atlantic, assuming that it happens in this timeline? How will it change the Beatles, if they happen at all? (In Liverpool, that is. They may well arise elsewhere) Will there still be the civil unrest and political intrigue of the 1980s? And, perhaps most importantly, will Liverpool FC still win five European Cups?
For the sake of argument, let's say the first 'additional' college, after the University College was established in 1882, was established in 1901 (POD), with two or three more following before the granting of the Charter and the forming of the University of Liverpool in 1907 (in OTL, the University College became UoL proper in 1903).
Traditionally on the founding of an English University, the founding college is named the University College - this happens with the multi-college universities (Oxford, Cambridge, London) as well as the more 'modern' ones such as Liverpool (the university buildings still bear a tablet proclaiming them to belong to 'University College Liverpool', although it's the only college in the University as it exists today).
What if, instead of remaining as a single college after its founding, the university develops along Oxbridge lines, with many colleges spread out across the city under the 'umbrella' of Liverpool University? Will it become a renowned university town like the southern cities (although not particularly resembling them - it is, after all, a working port and major commerce centre)? How will this affect its status as a commercial centre, or its mostly working-class, immigrant and immigrant-descended populace? (Liverpool was, at the time, the second city of the Empire, in just about every respect - good and bad).
Will the city still be the centre of the Battle of the Atlantic, assuming that it happens in this timeline? How will it change the Beatles, if they happen at all? (In Liverpool, that is. They may well arise elsewhere) Will there still be the civil unrest and political intrigue of the 1980s? And, perhaps most importantly, will Liverpool FC still win five European Cups?
For the sake of argument, let's say the first 'additional' college, after the University College was established in 1882, was established in 1901 (POD), with two or three more following before the granting of the Charter and the forming of the University of Liverpool in 1907 (in OTL, the University College became UoL proper in 1903).
