An Advancement of Learning

{{short description|1971 novel by Reginald Hill}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox book |

| name = An Advancement of Learning

| image = File:AnAdvancementOfLearning.jpg

| caption = First edition cover

| author = Reginald Hill

| illustrator =

| cover_artist =

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| series = Dalziel and Pascoe series, #2

| genre = crime novel

| publisher = Collins Crime Club

| pub_date = 1971

| media_type = Print (Hardcover)

| pages = 254p.

| isbn = 0-00-231009-0

| oclc= 16194286

| preceded_by = A Clubbable Woman

| followed_by = Ruling Passion

}}

An Advancement of Learning is a 1971 crime novel by Reginald Hill, the second novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series.

In this novel, the detectives investigate a murder at the fictional Holm Coultram College.{{cite web |url=http://felonyandmayhem.com/book/an-advancement-of-learning/ |title=An Advancement of Learning {{!}} Felony & Mayhem Press |website=felonyandmayhem.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123050205/http://felonyandmayhem.com/book/an-advancement-of-learning/ |archive-date=2012-01-23}} More bodies are found after their arrival on campus.{{cite web|url=http://www.harpercollins.ca/books/An-Advancement-of-Learning-Reginald-Hill?isbn%3D9780007313037%26HCHP%3DTB_An+Advancement+of+Learning |title=An Advancement of Learning by Reginald Hill |accessdate=2011-10-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330152439/http://www.harpercollins.ca/books/An-Advancement-of-Learning-Reginald-Hill?isbn=9780007313037&HCHP=TB_An+Advancement+of+Learning |archivedate=2012-03-30 }} In this novel, Pascoe's future wife joins the action as a faculty member whom he knew from years past.

The book's title is an homage to Francis Bacon's (1561–1626) philosophical tome, The Advancement of Learning.{{Cite book|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5500|title = The Advancement of Learning}}