Dr Christina Roaf (Drake), 1917-2014
Dr Christina Roaf (Drake) (1937, Modern Languages) died on the 18th June at the age of 96. Dr Roaf was born on 17 November 1917 and named after Christina Rossetti,......
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Somerville Gardens open to public Sunday 29 June
Somerville College’s gardens will be open to visitors on Sunday 29 June as part of the National Gardens Scheme. The gardens will be open from 1-6pm. Admission is £2.50 for......
Somerville graduate scholar wins sustainability award
Shriman Sai Raman, a graduate scholar of Somerville College’s Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development, has received the Special Award for Community Action 2013-14 from ‘Green Impact’, a new student......
Almut Suerbaum discusses Hildegard of Bingen on BBC Radio 4
Dr Almut Suerbaum, Vice Principal of Somerville College and Lecturer in Medieval German, has featured in a BBC Radio 4 programme focused on the life and work of Hildegard of......
New Telethon team chosen ahead of autumn push
The 2014 Somerville Telethon team selection process has now finished and a fresh group of undergraduates has been chosen as callers to contact alumni during the annual College fundraiser. 16......
UNESCO and International Union of Crystallography to join in hosting a Dorothy Hodgkin Symposium at Somerville
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) will co-host an October symposium in Oxford to mark the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry won by Somerville......
Elizabeth Millicent Chilver (‘Sally Chilver’), 3 August 1914 – 3 July 2014
Elizabeth Millicent Chilver, known as Sally Chilver, has died at the age of 99. Mrs Chilver (1932, History) was Principal of Bedford College, University of London from 1964 to 1971......
College Gaudy fills Hall and lasts into early hours
Somerville’s annual Gaudy dinner filled the College hall on Saturday 28 June as alumnae from 1978-1988 returned to College for their reunion. Speeches were delivered by Neeta Patel (1980, Chemistry),......
Alumna Jo Vellacott delivers conference talk on WW1 peace campaigner Catherine Marshall
Dr Jo Vellacott (1940, History) delivered a talk on Friday 4 July entitled the War Work of an Anti-War Activist: Catherine Marshall, 1914-1918 at Senate House in London. The talk......
Jean Wilks, 14.4.1917-15.07.2014
Jean Wilks, alumna and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, has died at the age of 97. Educated at North London Collegiate School, Jean Wilks began her studies in English at......