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'''Redbrick universities''' is a term used in [[Britain]] to describe those universities founded in the late nineteenth and early-mid twentieth centuries; they are sometimes also known as 'civic universities', founded as an expression of civic pride by cities which had prosperede and grown during the [[Industrial Revolution]].
Redbrick universities include the Universities of [[Manchester]], [[Liverpool]], [[Sheffield], [[Leeds]], [[Birmingham]], [[Leicester]], [[Nottingham]], [[Reading]], [[Exeter]], [[Southampton]] and the [[University of Wales]].
[[Category:Universities]]