Science and Expansion
file image 0 0 0 #AB1D40 1945 1965 1945 A Pioneer of Modern Medicine Janet Vaughan becomes Somerville’s 6th Principal. A haemotologist who helped pioneer the techniques of blood donation......
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21st Century Somerville
file image 0 0 0 #7573b5 2010 9 2010 A historian and pioneer Alice Prochaska is elected Principal. A historian and former librarian of Yale University, Prochaska oversees a growth......
Degrees for Women
file image 0 0 0 #b96a56 1920 1944 1920 A Vindication 42 years after the University of London and 28 years before Cambridge, Oxford finally allows women to take degrees.......
The First World War
file image 0 0 0 #7573b5 1914 1918 4 1914 Testament of Youth As war breaks out, Vera Brittain comes up to Somerville to read English. She leaves off her......
Academic Growth
file image 0 0 0 #55294F 1895 1913 5 1896 Towards Degrees for Women A first attempt to gain degrees for women is unsuccessful. Somerville and the Association for Promoting......
From Hall to College
file image 0 0 0 #009ca7 July 1867 A Question of Denomination A group of dons and individuals including Edward Talbot of Keble and the campaigner Mary Ward (pictured) propose......
Elspeth Barker
Prize-winning author 1 Born in Edinburgh, Elspeth Barker came to Somerville in 1958 to study Literae Humaniores (Classics). Barker’s first novel O Caledonia was published in 1991 and won four......
Postgraduate Courses
Graduate programmes are generally more individualised than at undergraduate level, and are overseen by the student’s supervisor or course director at their department or faculty. Graduate students also have a......