Fees and Funding
As part of our 360-degree commitment to student wellbeing, Somerville College has evolved into one of the most generous colleges in Oxford in terms of the financial support we offer.......
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Going Mixed
file image 0 0 0 #009ca7 1980 2009 1980 The Queen of Spies Daphne Park is elected Somerville’s 8th Principal, after her hobbies listed in Who’s Who (‘good talk and......
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......
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......
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......
Renier van der Hoorn
Senior Research Fellow; Associate Professor of Plant Sciences Renier is a plant biologist interested in understanding the manipulation of plants by microbial plant pathogens. His research activities also aim at......
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......
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......