Fullington University

Once construction was complete on our noble home turf of Brixton - Master Fullington having cannily paid a bargain price for a piece of land occupied by a block of flats which had recently been condemned as unsound after unexpected attack by a magical flying cat - the University could really get to work. Classes first began in the venerable Liberty Quad, but new buildings were soon added when corporate sponsorship poured in from the highest levels of British commerce. Happy, smiling students were soon to be flocking here from the furthest reaches of the country - and, once travel restrictions were totally relaxed and people were sure they could get home again, those from abroad who could afford the highest class of magical tuition came here too.

The list of famous alumni is too long to list here (see Appendix E), but some of the most notable academic names of the early university most certainly deserve a mention. Richard Chandler, obviously, was well known for teaching obscure branches of magic in an idiosyncratic fashion entirely his own, while Graham Bates taught specialist courses on the provenance and correct enchanting of Embercryst (before his unfortunate but thankfully temporary retirement from the magical world). These were supplemented by guest lectures from Nate Smyth on the Aether/Nether Balance, though occasionally contradicted by the ramblings of Geraint Swyngyfareddwyr, who never quite got a handle on all the new knowledge that had emerged in his later years. Meredith Howell is probably now best known for the Howell Outreach programme for children who are unaware of the magical world (sponsored by famous entrepreneurs, of course), though she also taught specialist classes in Kaomancy to occasional promising students.

To this day, FU owes our superior academic teaching, our esprit de corps and many of our generous alumni donations to the tireless work of these early lecturers and researchers. Let us all hope to live up to their example!

- Fullington University: A History