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Grace Chisholm was born in 1868 and was schooled at home, before passing the entrance exams for Cambridge and matriculating at Girton College in 1889, where she remained for four years. ... She also took the exam for the Final Honours School in

At Girton she read modern languages and she is listed in the Girton Review of August 1890, as having gained a first class pass in the Intercollegiate exams in Medieval and ... There is no record of her having subsequently taken the Medieval and Modern

Exam regulations, 1570 (UA Luard 187 f.4v). Their most significant innovation was the concentrating of power in the hands of a small elite: the Vice-Chancellor (the Chancellor being largely

Africa. They shed light upon the complex combination of political, economic, social and ideological forces within Britain, Europe and Africa, which drove imperial expansion during this period, beginning with the British ... Many authors discuss

For the third part of the book, which considers the wider economic history, sources from Official Publications provided the basis for a detailed analysis. ... journal, Fruit Intelligence, produced by the Commonwealth Economics Unit, on the UK and global

add considerably more to our understanding of the economics and aesthetics of engraved books than Peignot’s selection of literature and history. ... To start with, some of the more modest publications may have been produced as engraved books for simple

Amazing stories of women coming first in their year groups, women who formed the Girton Fire Brigade and women who had to do their exams separately in the houses of academics

Girton College had been founded in 1869, Newnham in 1871, but the women students were not members of the University, and although they could take the same exams as the men

You can see from the plan just how important fruit growing was to the economic life of the village at this time.

University records reveal Thomas Hobson, largely, as a measured operator. Economic expansion and wider access to education during this era assisted the emergence of an increasingly sophisticated urban merchant class. ... As such, his encounters with the