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Categories: Colloquial terms for groups of universities and colleges, Universities in the United Kingdom, Use British English from May 2013, Lists of universities and colleges in the United Kingdom, History of higher education in the United Kingdom

redbrick university red brick university Civic university red-brick university red brick

(British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University WordNet 3.0

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(British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A red brick university was originally one of the nine civic universities founded in the major industrial cities of England in the 19th century. Wikipedia

Term for British universities founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Wikidata

Any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city. Wiktionary

IS A

university

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university

HAS KIND

University of Birmingham

HAS INSTANCE

University of Bristol

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United Kingdom