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Mar 3, 2023 · Another ex-Varsity editor to be new University Challenge host. The Newnham team worked hard to prepare for the show, through weekly practices, watching old episodes and going through quiz books. Newnham also quizzed with Caius, Christ’s and Jesus, the other Cambridge teams from this season.
May 12, 2023 · This is a supercut of the Newnham College team's journey through University Challenge series 2022-2023. They may not have won the competition but they certai...
Jul 10, 2024 · Send us your University Challenge Memories. Starter for ten! Were you a member of one of Newnham’s University Challenge teams? This year’s team reached the quarter-final and we think that is our best performance yet since our first appearance on the quiz in 1963.
- Pioneers and Pathfinders
- Growing Demand
- Secondary Schooling For Women
- The First World War
- Dorothy Garrod - The First Female Professor at Cambridge
- Women Admitted to Men's Colleges
Lectures for Ladies had been started in Cambridge in 1870. These built on the reputation of the University; but Cambridge itself was a small market town with a thinly-populated hinterland and for many who wanted to attend, it was too far away to travel in and out on a daily basis. Urged on by Millicent Garrett Fawcett, later to become a celebrated ...
Demand from would-be students continued to grow and the Newnham Hall Company built steadily, providing three more Halls for students, a building to house their teachers, an administrative block, a Laboratory and a Library, in the years up to the First World War. The same architect, Basil Champneys, was employed throughout these years and his involv...
Many young women in mid-nineteenth century England had no access to the kind of formal secondary schooling which would have enabled them to go straight into the same university courses as the young men – like Anne Jemima Clough, some of them had never been to a school at all. So Newnham’s founders allowed the young women to work at and to a level w...
During the First World War British women were in general kept out of the front line. But many Cambridge women went into war work on graduating, often substituting for men on the home front. In 1922 Newnham recorded the war work of over 600 of its alumnae. Girton and Newnham undergraduates combined forces in their charitable activities to fund an en...
The women spent the inter-war years trapped on the threshold of the University. Their senior members could hold University posts: twelve women were appointed to University lectureships in 1926 and Dorothy Garrod, Fellow of Newnham, was elected Disney Professor of Archaeology in 1938, the first woman to hold a professorial chair in either Cambridge ...
At the beginning of the 1970s three men’s colleges began to admit women as undergraduates; and in 1978 Girton decided to mix both its fellowship and its student body. Gradually Cambridge was ceasing to be ‘a men’s university although of a mixed type’, as it had been described in the 1920s in a memorably confused phrase. Yet as those looking back at...
May 30, 2021 · From the safety of Newnham’s architectural embrace, generations of women broke down educational boundaries, among them Peggy Gladstone, who went on to become the first Cambridge woman to take first-class honours in both parts of the Oriental languages tripos.
That being said, Newnham were absolutely great. Bowen and Ellis were unbelievably good (Bowen's My Beautiful Laundrette and art buzzes were awesome) and Holloway-Strong and Chén provided great supporting roles with the Odyssey and Amur buzzes.
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Sep 5, 2022 · But 60 years after its first episode on 21 September 1962, University Challenge has become the nation’s best-known and longest-running quiz show, synonymous with academic intelligence, and a staple of quiet Monday evenings on the sofa.
