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Our Address. Somerville is close to the historic centre of Oxford and easily accessible by car, coach, rail and bus. Somerville College. Woodstock Road. Oxford OX2 6HD. Tel: +44 1865 270600. Email: enquiries@some.ox.ac.uk.
The college has one of the best undergraduate libraries in Oxford, containing more than 120,000 items, available to our students 24/7. Somerville is also one of Oxford’s most financially supportive colleges, with 1 in 5 students receiving some form of financial support. Generous travel and special project grants are available to help students ...
Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford [3] in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher , Indira Gandhi , Dorothy Hodgkin , Iris Murdoch , Philippa Foot , Vera Brittain and Dorothy L. Sayers .
For the year ended 2023 the College’s operational income was approximately £12.3 million. Income is derived from academic and college fees, residential, catering and conferencing operations (just over £1m revenue), endowment income (£3.8 million) and donations and legacies. The College aims to at least break even each year on unrestricted ...
May 5, 2015 · Somerville College and the Great War. The First World War transformed women-only Somerville College. It became a hospital for convalescing soldiers, housed poets and writers and changed forever the fortunes of female students, writes Frank Prochaska. In September 1914 Harold Macmillan, an undergraduate at Balliol College, took the widely held ...
Oct 1, 2024 · Somerville had 12 students in residence, 8 of whom were assisted by exhibitions, none of which were in the first instance promised for more than three years. (fn. 5) But the demand for the facilities it offered was great, and its numbers rose steadily. By 1885 it had 30 students in residence; by 1895, 62; by the outbreak of the war in 1914, 101.
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