Search results
Oct 10, 2020 · Newnham College is a Victorian fairyland. The stately collection of ivy-draped redbrick halls, Queen Anne style with their elaborate curly gables, white-trimmed windows, and copper turrets, is nearly in the center of Cambridge, just down the road from the River Cam and the Backs.
Newnham is the women’s college in the heart of Cambridge. 150 years ago, a group of radicals – philosophers, campaigners, scientists, writers – came together to create a Cambridge College unlike any other.
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 ...
- 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...
About. Newnham College was established in 1871, as a women’s college at a time when women were not allowed to attend the University. Our co-founders included Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the famous campaigner for women’s suffrage. We remain proudly a women’s College today.
May 30, 2021 · To mark the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Newnham College and the arrival of women scholars in Cambridge, Kathryn Ferry examines the distinctive style of the college buildings. Photographs by Will Pryce for Country Life.
People also ask
Is Newnham College a fairyland?
Who founded Newnham College?
Is Newnham College a women's college?
What is Newnham College like?
Are Cambridge & Newnham different?
Where can a postgraduate student live in Newnham?
The book describes 'the idea of Newnham', which arose from supporters of female education in the mid-nineteenth century, the parallel trajectory of the founders of Girton College, and the small beginning of what became Newnham, with five students in a house overlooking Parker's Piece in 1871.
