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Newnham College Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DF. Telephone switchboard. 01223 335700 (+44 1223 335700) General enquiries. t: 01223 335700 (+44 1223 335700) Admissions. Undergraduate. t: 01223 335783 (+44 1223 335783) e: admissions@newn.cam.ac.uk. Postgraduate. t: 01223 335791 (+44 1223 335791) Conferences. t: 01223 335803 (+44 1223 335803) e ...
How to contact us. College map (pdf) Our Location. Newnham College is in central Cambridge at the heart of the University. View on map. Getting to and from Newnham. By car. Sidgwick Avenue is just off the A603 and approximately 2 miles from junction 12 on the M11.
Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [4] The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicent Garrett Fawcett. It was the second women's college to be founded at Cambridge, following Girton ...
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Cambridge Inscriptions Explainedby Nancy Gregory (2006) looks at the background to the main gateway, the Pfeiffer Arch [Clough Gates] in more detail: In 1893, 18 years after Old Hall opened its doors, Basil Champneys completed the Pfeiffer Arch. The Memorial Gates were placed in the archway in honour of the college’s first Principal, Anne Jemima Cl...
Between 1922 and 1950 Newnham College and the Workers’ Educational Association ran a pioneering series of residential summer schools specifically to meet the educational needs of working women. Organised largely by women for other women, these remarkable schools were inter-generational, inclusive and non-hierarchial. The Spring 2023 issue of Women’...
Alice Grace Jenny Bragg, ‘Lady Bragg’, wife of Nobel prize winner Sir Lawrence Bragg, went to Newnham College in 1918 to study history. Her time there is described in a diary in ‘Crystal Clear’ p301f. It was while an undergraduate she met Lawrence Bragg. Jane Ellen Harrison, classicist and linguist
Welcome to Newnham – the College where you can walk on the grass! That sums us up – we’re friendly, informal, and try to break down the barriers between students and Fellows, so that everyone can learn from each other. One thing that makes us special – Newnham is a College for women, led by women.
Newnham College: Phone Number: 01223 335700: Email: admissions@newn.cam.ac.uk: Website: https://newn.cam.ac.uk/ Location: Newnham College is located on Sidgwick Avenue in the centre of Cambridge and is near Selwyn College. Financial support