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17 de mar. de 2024 · The names of the 77 alumnae of Newnham College – a women-only college that is part of Cambridge University – who were recruited to intercept, decrypt and translate military messages during the...
Hace 3 días · On page 21 there was the glorious photograph of the fellows of Newnham College in 1936, including my grandmother, Margaret McFie. She was the domestic bursar, universally known at the time as steward.
12 de mar. de 2024 · A Room of One’s Own, essay by Virginia Woolf, published in 1929. The work was based on two lectures given by the author in 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, the first two colleges for women at Cambridge.
12 de mar. de 2024 · More than 70 former students of Newnham College were secretly recruited for World War Two codebreaking work at Bletchley Park, thanks partly to the personal connections of three Newnham women. The role of the Cambridge College in the vital work at Bletchley Park has emerged slowly and piecemeal through historical research, as the ...
Hace 3 días · Knitting, Wood Engravers and Sylvia Plath – Our Visit to Newnham College Library Posted on March 25, 2024 by Harriet Edwards At the beginning of March, the trainees made our way to Newnham College for a tour around their college library.
21 de mar. de 2024 · March 21st, 2024. Newnham college is delighted that Honorary Fellow and former Principal, Dame Carol Black GBE FRCP has been nominated for the honorary degree of Doctor of Medical Science in the University of Cambridge. The Congregation for the conferment will be held on Wednesday, 19 June 2024.
7 de mar. de 2024 · In front of an audience at Newnham College, she delivered the following words: “All I could do was offer you an opinion upon one minor point - a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved”.