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11 Dec 2020: You’ll hear big ideas from scientists, philosophers and artists, discover authors and Ambassadors in conversation, join workshops and tours, meet old friends, make new ones, hear great music – or relax

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11 Dec 2020: OTHER WAYS TO GET INVOLVED If you’re a student, join the Wiki Women project where you can learn skills to help create 150 Newnham-related entries. Join the fight against climate change. We are hoping to see 150 native trees bought, planted and

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21 Dec 2020: Ten Newnham Treasures

11 Dec 2020: There will be a new tour of the gardens with Lottie, our Head Gardener talking to Ann Thomas, who is a student reading Plant Sciences. ... There will be a new film of the Dorothy Garrod Building, as well as a video showing our students sharing news and

11 Dec 2020: Unpaid labour, board & lodging – women’s contribution to economic growth in England 1260-1860 Professor Jane Humphries CBE (NC 1967) will deliver the third of our four special 150th Anniversary Lectures, examining women’s unpaid work and the

11 Dec 2020: We want to create 150 new entries about influential women of the past and those making a difference today – especially women of colour, those from the LGBTQ community, those working in ... New entries might be in English, or in other languages, or you

21 Dec 2020: Click to enlarge This banner, first carried in the suffrage marches of the early 20th century, will be familiar to alumnae and is one of the most treasured items in the collection. It was created by students of Newnham and Girton in their fight for

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22 Dec 2020: Artist Jilly Edwards created two remarkable works in tapestry for the Dorothy Garrod Building: subtle evocations of the rhythms of College life. Newnham has a strong tradition of the arts, and significant examples of global textile art: these pieces

11 Dec 2020: Shows the College as a place of new thinking and research of international significance.

22 Dec 2020: Currently housed in Newnham's Senior Common Room. Amongst the decorative art collections at Newnham are a number of items associated with the traditional college ritual of tea parties in student rooms. Several Victorian copper kettles survive from

15 Dec 2020: Making a technical breakthrough is ‘fun’. Discovering and naming a new biological process is ‘really fun’. ... And what I’ve shown is that actually may be possible. It’s a new kind of binding.’.

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22 Dec 2020: Jane Ellen Harrison The ghost of Jane Harrison has a notorious walk-on part in Virginia Woolf’s feminist classic, A Room of One’s Own, flitting across the gardens of Fernham (a very thinly disguised Newnham) College. For Woolf, Harrison was one

22 Dec 2020: Pilot, architect and entrepreneur, Jadwiga Piłsudska contributed hugely to her adopted country of Britain. She was born in Poland in 1920, the younger daughter of Marshal Józef Piłsudski, Poland’s Chief of State and then dictator. As a teenager,

15 Dec 2020: Maria dreams of seeing, for example, ‘new particles that “live” at a hundred times the energy we have available in the LHC, but still create some clear evidence of their presence ... Maria explains the new approach the group is now taking. ‘A lot

15 Dec 2020: Growing up in a well-educated Pathan family in Peshawar, Pakistan, Rehana was always determined to break new ground. ... She wrote in her poem ‘My Way’: ‘My way was the search of new experiences. … /