It was formed by enfranchising and combining all the English universities, except for Cambridge, Oxford and London which were already separately represented.
The original proposal of the Speaker's Conference, which considered electoral reform before the 1918 legislation was prepared, was to combine all the English and Welsh universities except for Oxford and Cambridge into a three-member constituency.
The universities represented by this constituency were Birmingham, Bristol, Durham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Reading (from August 1928) and Sheffield.
This is a list of people who were elected to represent these English universities in the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1918 and 1950.
By-elections, to fill a single seat, used the first past the post or relative majority electoral system.