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25 Jun 2024: Rosalie resumed her formal education (which had not suffered during her internment) at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and then gained a place at Girton in 1949, initially to read Economics before switching

26 Jun 2024: Other careers include university teaching, financial work in the City, accountancy, actuarial work, software development, starting and running web-based companies, environmental science, economics, medical statistics and mathematical biology.

25 Jun 2024: Girton’s foundation was a bold step towards women’s full and equal participation in political, social and economic life.

26 Jun 2024: On the social and economic backgrounds of supporters of the early women’s colleges (particularly Girton and Newnham), and the financial challenges those faced, see Gillian Sutherland, ‘The movement for higher

25 Jun 2024: including Economics; History; Human, Social and Political Sciences; Geography, Medieval and Modern Languages, and Law.

25 Jun 2024: irrespective of their sex, gender identity (including reassignment), marital, parental or partnership status, race, ethnic or national origin, colour, disability, sexuality, religion or belief, class, socio-economic status, and age.

25 Jun 2024: Through this one woman’s bequest Girton has acquired, in a very concrete and vivid sense, knowledge of the economics of enslaved labour and the intolerable conditions under which the primary

25 Jun 2024: An example is the way in which she frames various forms of economic sabotage on the part of enslaved persons.

25 Jun 2024: Personal Papers of Eileen Power, 1889-1940, economic historian, wife of M M Postan.