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Wolsey’s objective finally achieved

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Nearly five hundred years after Thomas Wolsey sought to establish an independent University in Ipswich, this will finally happen from 1 August this year:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-36307221

Wolsey’s Gate is all that remains of Cardinal College:
https://ipswichhistory.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/wolseys-gate/

 

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