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Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. 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 ...
Newnham is one of the 31 colleges of the University of Cambridge: a place of learning, teaching and research. Our college was established in 1871, as a women’s college at a time when women were not allowed to attend the University.
My daughter is starting at Newnham in Autumn. When she first began looking at Cambridge she was pretty certain she did not want to apply to an all female college. However, she went to look around Newnham just out of interest on one of the Cambridge Open Days and she fell in love with the place. The environment seems so supportive, not to ...
Gill Sutherland’s history of the College, from its foundation in 1871 until the present day, also contains photos from our archives. Newnham began as a house for five students in Regent Street in Cambridge in 1871.
Newnham is the women’s college in the heart of Cambridge – led by women, for women. 150 years ago, a group of radicals – philosophers, campaigners, scientists, writers – came together to create a Cambridge College unlike any other.
Newnham College es un college para mujeres en la Universidad de Cambridge. Fue fundado en 1871 por Henry Sidgwick y fue el segundo college de Cambridge que admitió mujeres, siendo el primero el Girton .
Hace 3 días · 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.
