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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: 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: The second installment in our ‘Wicked Problems in a Complex World’ series will see former BBC World News director and now documentary producer, Sian Kevill (NC 1979), tackling the ‘Wicked Problem’ ... There will be a new film of the Dorothy

11 Dec 2020: Join our 150th Anniversary online Wiki workshop for MCR & JCR students led by Dr Alice White - Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Trust 2-5pm on Saturday 20 March 2021 (pre-booking required) There are still spaces available, don't miss out and

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: You can do this as an individual, group or as part of a society or external organisation. You may want to deliver your project – large or small – virtually or with a real life element (when circumstances allow). It might be an exhibition or

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

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

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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: Dr Maria Ubiali, Fellow and Sheila Edmonds Lecturer in Mathematics Dr Maria Ubiali’s journey into particle physics started as a 16-year old in Milan, with a fascination for art and a frustration with her artistic abilities. But, babysitting the

15 Dec 2020: ‘When I told my dad I was studying disorder he said, “yes, that makes sense”’, Dr Gabi Heller says, grinning. There’s a persistent stereotype that scientific labs are very serious places. But for Gabi, the word she uses over and over again

15 Dec 2020: 1911–1998 (Bhagvat) Around the time Kamala Bhagvat was born in India in 1911, the literacy rate among Indian women was below 1%, as they were denied education and any role outside of the home. Fortunately for her (and the world), her family