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Times of change

Helen Darbishire, English Tutor at Somerville since 1908, was an unassuming Principal during a time of great unrest in the world at large, and a period of great change in Somerville. The 1930s were a time of hope and expansion for the College. Benefiting from a number of endowments (notably from Winifred Holtby), Somerville was able to finance major buildings works and the recruitment of some distinguished tutors. New recruits to the College staff saw the strength of the English school confirmed, and the appointment of Dorothy Crowfoot, who won a Nobel Prize for Science under her married name of Dorothy Hodgkin, to a Fellowship.

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