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Caroline is in her final year studying Classics at Somerville. She is also Captain of the Oxford University Fencing team, which is currently ranked #1 in the UK. Here she tells us more about her sporting life, her studies and volunteering at the Ashmolean (as well as the all-important Varsity match).
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Undergraduate - Somerville College Oxford. Somerville was...
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From your first visit to the day you graduate, the Academic...
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This is the list of Undergraduate courses offered at...
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- Access & Outreach
Somerville's Access team hosts multiple school visits, open...
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- Why Somerville
Somerville was born out of hope and a refusal to accept the...
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Applying to Somerville is simple. When you complete the UCAS...
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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.
Somerville is a warm, forward-looking and inclusive college with a streak of radicalism at its heart. Founded in 1879 to give women access to university education when many others wouldn’t, famous alumni include two former prime ministers, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize for science and pioneers in literature and activism.
Undergraduate - Somerville College Oxford. Somerville was founded to include the excluded. It was created for women when universities refused them entry, and for people of diverse beliefs when conformity was essential if you wanted to succeed. Today, you’ll find a co-educational community that shares a culture of progressive thinking ...
A brief history of Somerville. From our beginnings way back in 1879, the history of Somerville is a rich and compelling tale that spans the entire 20th century and beyond. Click below to go back to the start, or feel free to dive directly into a period that interests you. Since our first students joined us over a century ago, Somerville’s ...
Somerville College Virtual Tour. Have a look around! Here’s how the tours work: Each tour starts in the Porter’s lodge which is at the entrance to the college. From there you can navigate through the college and its grounds by clicking on the arrow button . In the top left corner of the screen you’ll see a menu icon with a list of all the ...
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Somerville College was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall and was, with Lady Margaret Hall (LMH), the first of the colleges for women. Somerville, unlike LMH, was non-denominational and took its name from Mary Somerville, the Scottish mathematician, scientist and advocate of women’s education.
