1. 'North Wales and his wife will be there': The Beginning, 1884-1892 -- 2. 'Little Balliol': Growth and Development, 1893-1927 -- 3. 'The strange and beautiful hillside college at Bangor': Recession and War, 1928-1945 -- 4. 'The whole place had a sort of family feeling': Reconstruction, 1945-1957 -- 5. 'Universities have a duty to try to find places for all those who wish to enter': The Challenges of Expansion, 1958-1976 -- 6. 'We are drifting into very perilous waters': Confrontation and Crisis, 1976-1984 -- 7. 'I am sure that a radical approach is right': Responding to Change, 1984-2009.