Somerville and Politics
file image 0 0 0 #891c56 1966 1979 1966 A First Female Head of State Somervillian Indira Gandhi (Nehru) is elected India’s first woman Prime Minister. 3438 5 1967 A......
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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......
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......
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......
Julie Dickson
Fellow & Tutor in Law; Professor of Legal Philosophy Julie Dickson (LLB, Dip. L.P. Glasgow; MA, DPhil Oxf.) is Professor of Legal Philosophy in the Faculty of Law, and Fellow......
Classical Archaeology and Ancient History
Somerville was instrumental in the foundation of this joint school, which seeks to bring together the study of the material culture and of the history of the ancient world. You......