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Inter-university swimming championships in the United Kingdom are organised by British Universities & Colleges Sport (previously known as British Universities Sports Association).

The current format of competitions is three-fold - individual championships in both short course and long coure pools usually held in November and February respectively, and a team championship held in March or April.

In the 2007-8 academic year, The University of Bath were overall champions at the short course and team championships, and Loughborough University were overall champions at the long course championships.

1924-1939
Inter-university swimming championships began in 1924 for women and 1926 for men, and were held and organised separately until 1937.

Men (Inter Varsity Board of England and Wales)

 * 1926:
 * 1927:
 * 1928:
 * 1929:

Men (Universities Athletic Union (UAU))
Manchester's men won 5 times between 1926 and 1935, so must have also won twice in the years shown as unknown.
 * 1930: Manchester
 * 1931:
 * 1932: Manchester
 * 1933: London
 * 1934: Manchester
 * 1935: London
 * 1936: London
 * 1937: London
 * 1938: Sheffield
 * 1939: London

Women (Women's Inter-Varsity Athletic Board (WIVAB))

 * 1924:
 * 1925:
 * 1926:
 * 1927:
 * 1928: Manchester
 * 1929:
 * 1930:
 * 1931:
 * 1932:
 * 1933:
 * 1934:
 * 1935: London
 * 1936: London
 * 1937: London
 * 1938: Leeds
 * 1939: London

1945-1994
The Inter Varsity Athletic Board (IVAB) was formed in 1953 to administer student international representative sport - This later became British Universities Sports Federation (BUSF), of which UAU and WIVAB were corporate members. UAU and WIVAB merged in 1969 and was then called 'UAU'. Polytechnics and Colleges later had their own bodies. It's not often clear which body was responsible for the University championships in this period, so here the known winners are listed for each year with the competition in brackets.
 * 1945:
 * 1946:
 * 1947: Liverpool (Men), Liverpool (Women)
 * 1948: London (Men), London (Women)
 * 1949: London (Men), London (Women)
 * 1950:
 * 1951:
 * 1952: Manchester
 * 1953:
 * 1954:
 * 1955:
 * 1956: London (Men), Edinburgh (Women)
 * 1957:
 * 1958:
 * 1959: London (Men), London (Women)
 * 1960: Cambridge (Men), London (Women)
 * 1961: London (British Universities), Manchester (UAU)
 * 1962:
 * 1963:
 * 1964:
 * 1965: Loughborough (Men), Oxford (Women)
 * 1966:
 * 1967:
 * 1968: Manchester (Men), Birmingham (Women)
 * 1969: Manchester (Men), London (Women)
 * 1970:
 * 1971:
 * 1972: Edinburgh (Men), Liverpool (Women)
 * 1973:
 * 1974:
 * 1975:
 * 1976:
 * 1977:
 * 1978:
 * 1979:
 * 1980:
 * 1981:
 * 1982:
 * 1983:
 * 1984:
 * 1985:
 * 1986:
 * 1987:
 * 1988:
 * 1989:
 * 1990:
 * 1991:
 * 1992:
 * 1993:
 * 1994:

1994-2008 (BUSA)
The British Universities Sports Association (BUSA) was formed in 1994 following the removal of the divide between universities and polytechnics. All the previous bodies mentioned above were amalgamated into BUSA. Short and long Course championships and a separate team championships were held.

2008- (BUCS)
From the start of the 2008-9 academic year, the championships will be known as the British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) Swimming Championships.