institution-history-1908 September 19, 2017 Return to: Creative Writing Lecturing & Dissertation SupervisorFull resolution (300 × 200) Image navigation Previous Image Next Image 1908 In 1908 the Park building opened as a Municipal college and public library. The focus was on chemistry and engineering. The roots of the University can be traced back even further to the Portsmouth and Gosport School of Science and the Arts.