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The Founders’ Collection of Children’s Books 19th Century children’s literature
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Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Honorary Fellows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The Bursar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 New initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Naming a Bursary at Lucy Cavendish
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Lucy Cavendish Dinner
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Fellows’ News
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Departures and Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Home and Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Medics and Vets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Teaching and Tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Selected Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Federico de Roberto
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Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club
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University Challenge
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Lucy Cavendish College Choir
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Further Adventures with Jane and Morag:
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Honorary Fellows
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May Bumps Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Pedagogy in the Cyclades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Stella Rimington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anne Owers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Anna Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
The College 2006-07
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President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Honorary Fellows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Emeritus Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Governing Body Fellows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Bursar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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Research Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Visiting Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Visiting Scholars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Members by Election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Honorary Members of the Combination Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Members of the Combination Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Post-Doctoral Members of the Combination Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
The Students
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First Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Second Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Third Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Fourth Years and above, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Graduate Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
In Memoriam
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Eileen Clifford 1912-2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Sheila Joan Innes 1947-2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Anne McLaren 1927–2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken 1909-2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Joan Anne Simms1918 -2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Development News
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Annual Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Alumnae Directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Features
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Life Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Women in the Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 You Can Live Forever. Julie Maxwell (Jonathan Cape, 2007) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
The Founders’ Collection of Children’s Books
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Formal Hall List
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Report from the President Medical Sciences, Engineering, Education and English.
Academic success by our students has been matched by other
achievements in the form of
published poetry and short stories,
beautiful drawings produced at the life classes kindly arranged by
Sarah Gull, five half-blues in sport and the much prized blade
achieved by the combined LucyHughes Hall eight. And then to
have Jeremy Paxman telling our
team on University Challenge to hold their heads high is praise indeed: at one stage it really Dame Veronica and Anne Owers at the Induction Ceremony for Anne Owers in January 2007.
seemed as if our team would beat
the former overall winners Warwick University.
The academic year 2006-07 has been one in which Lucy Cavendish College
Fellows
showed that it has truly come of age.
Research undertaken by our
This was typified by many of our
setting new highs. There were nine
Women’s Day, when we held our
Engineering, History of Art, Social
Formal Halls: International
Women in the Media Panel (see
p.45) and the evening when Anna Ford gave her Lucy Cavendish CWL Lecture were just two
occasions when the range of guests and the dining ambience that is unique to us came together to
reflect a vibrant self-confidence. And there is much to be selfconfident about.
Firsts (in Classics, Chemical
and Political Sciences, Medicine, Natural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine) and an excellent
proportion of Upper Seconds,
moving us up two places in the Tompkins Table ranking of
Cambridge Colleges. Graduate
students have also done well, with a record number gaining their
degrees on completion of a variety of taught and research courses,
Students
including fourteen PhDs and
Ten years after we achieved full
subjects is extremely wide, the most
College status our students are
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twenty-five MPhils. The range of popular being Biological and
Fellows is of course our lifeblood, contributing to our profile as an academic institution. Mirca
Madianou has been awarded both a research fellowship from the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, and a research grant from the Economic and
Research Council for her work on
new communications media. In the wider arena I must also mention Julie Maxwell winning the Betty
Trask Prize for her first novel “You Can Live for Ever” (see review
p.46). Sadly for us however she
resigned her Fellowship after an all too short time. Her replacement as
College Lecturer in English is Isobel Maddison who joins us from
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hard-working staff. Our students know that in the Library they can count on the willingness of the
resourced College. We have
Honorary Fellows
Librarians to search out particular
University Teaching Officers
On a happier note, our special
Bursar and her team will ensure the
Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia
Fellow Claire Tomalin on her
admitted to the Fellowship two (UTOs): Jackie Brearley, Senior and Sabine Bahn, Reader in
Psychology; and in October 2007 Lucy Cavendish attracted a
Professorial Fellow – Professor Christine Howe of the Faculty of Education.
The year has alas also seen sadness among the Emeritus and Honorary Fellows on whom we rely so much for loyal support and inspiration.
congratulations go to Honorary induction as an Honorary
Graduand of the University: the joint dinner with Newnham to
celebrate this was a memorable
event. And we are grateful to our two newest Honorary Fellows,
Anne Owers and Anna Ford, who
gave stimulating talks on the work
volumes for them; the Domestic
best possible accommodation, while the kitchen staff will listen carefully to requests, providing comfort food when necessary; that Scarlet Wang, the IT Manager who arrived in the summer following the departure
after the many years service of Bill
Nelson and Tim Flood, will strive to provide up-to-date communications
So much depends too on every member of our loyal and hard-working staff...
Eileen Clifford died in May, after an
the willingness of the Librarians ... the best possible accommodation, while the
spanning almost 50 years. She
security and a beautiful environment in which to relax
as Steward, and was for a period
of the Chief Inspector of Prisons,
systems; the Porters will look after
missed for her wisdom, kindness
respectively. These are two areas
a beautiful environment in which
involvement with the College
served in many capacities, notably acting President. She will be much and abiding interest in the College, but her legacy will live on, for she has generously remembered us in
kitchen staff will listen carefully to requests; up-to-date communications,
and freedom of expression
that are much in the news at
present, and many of our Honorary Fellows are prominent in national
security, and the gardeners provide to relax – building on the work of Helen Seal, who has left us to take up a position in the
debates across such a wide range of
Botanical Gardens.
respected geneticist who was one of
I am certain that central to our self
The Bursar
November 2007, Joan Simms,
community that has always been a
possible without sound finances.
her Will. Sadly I have to note too
the death in July of Professor Anne McLaren, the internationally our Honorary Fellows. In
Emeritus Fellow, died aged 89.
She had been a generous benefactor and friend to the College, with the establishment of the Simms Schoolmistress Fellowship
– later converted into a College
pressing issues.
confidence is the sense of
None of this of course would be
feature of Lucy Cavendish. Of
On these, following the completion
course the academic success of our students depends critically on the special support they receive from their Directors of Studies and
Tutors, so ably led by the Senior
Tutor; but so much depends too on every member of our loyal and
of the Oldham Hall project and the
arrival of our new Bursar, there has been much hard work. The first
concern, however, was to improve the College’s organisational structures and channels of
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Particular mention must be made of the gift by Dr Peter Brooks of his extensive library of books on the Reformation. This beautiful and
unique collection will be placed in one of the basement rooms on
shelving funded by the Friends of
the Library. This organisation has now been wound up, but we are grateful to Beryl Newns and her
colleagues for their support over
many years. The collection itself will eventually feature on our newly enhanced website and
should attract scholars from around the world.
Dame Veronica and Dame Stella at Dame Stella’s induction before Christmas Formal Hall 2006
working environment including the
conference income, a good Colleges
Handbook (in parallel with a
additional award from the Wolfson
completion of a new Employment Compendium for Fellows) with a clear statement of terms and
conditions for staff. I salute the
speed with which Dr Carter has already achieved so much.
Fund settlement, a generous
Foundation, and a magnificent
donation from our former Vice-
includes one of our former Trustees, Chris Johnson, who provides much wise advice. We have also been
greatly helped by the continuing impact of the generous bequest
from Susan Maddocks, increased
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endemic problems. The most
fundamental of these – in common
with a number of other colleges - is
difference and we are all grateful
contribute to the Annual Fund, and
Committee has been set up which
but it would be foolish to overlook
flagpole! Every donation makes a
As regards finances themselves, updated; a new Investment
is positive in the life of the College,
forgetting also her gift of our new for the generosity of the many
our investment portfolio has been
It is pleasing to record so much that
President, Lindsey Traub, not
Finances efficiencies have been achieved and
New initiatives
members of our community who to our Bursary Scheme (see p.8). Our community is donating in
greater and greater numbers and
this participation rate plays a vital
role in demonstrating our worth as
the underlying annual deficit.
Please do not hesitate to contact our
following the measures described
a beneficiary to outside bodies. Head of Development, Meryl
Davies, if you would like to discuss giving to the College.
While this is on an improving trend above, more needs to be done if we are to remain competitive in
attracting high quality academics
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and students. To this end we have
Abulafia was asked by Cambridge
time at Lucy Cavendish. This past
initiatives.
on Jewish/Christian Relations at the
demanding - and fulfilling - of my
therefore taken two important
First, to ensure a steady stream of
in America to give a talk in Chicago time of the Crusades.
year has been one of the most
stewardship and I am grateful for
fee-paying students, we have decided to strengthen our
admissions staff, by employing for
an initial year an alumna, Sue Long, who has considerable experience of the admissions process following employment at the Cambridge
Admissions Office. She will devote her energies to travelling widely both in the UK and abroad to
stimulate interest in what we have to offer. It is hoped that these
efforts will bring an increase in
successful applications, and thus
Dame Veronica, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen and Dr Anna Abulafia (Margaret Penston)
also improve our income stream.
Our new website (see p.43) is
the support I have received from so
Secondly, with the aim of
the College’s profile, as are our
President. I look forward to two
expanding our endowment, we are taking advice from a firm of
consultants to guage reaction to raising the profile of our
fundraising activities. I am grateful to those of you who have helped
them to gain an understanding of the College.
These initiatives will underpin
work already undertaken by our
Admissions and Graduate Tutors
on the one hand, and on the other
by the Vice-President and Head of
Development. Both the latter have visited the US recently, to raise
funds and to promote the College
more widely. In addition to Meryl Davies’s meetings in Boston, New York and Washington, Anna
playing an important role in raising growing contacts with bankers and lawyers, and with the press.
The Lucy Cavendish lecture series
has also attracted large audiences to talks on diverse topics. Sir
Christopher Hum spoke on
developments in China, and Simon Baron-Cohen gave a lecture on
autism. In addition, the Alumnae Association, ably led by Jill
Armstrong (1999), is active in organising events and talks,
including a forum in London at
which Rabbi Julia Neuburger was the guest speaker – on women as
drivers of change through the ages. After six years I am sadly now
entering the final months of my
many people, led by the Vice-
more terms of hard work, drawing
on the experience I have acquired in my time here.
Dame Veronica Sutherland President
p.s. The Newsletter for 2006-07 is appearing later than usual owing to a series of complicated IT difficulties which delayed its production. This gives me the opportunity to welcome Professor Janet Todd as my successor. The College is indeed privileged to have as its next President a distinguished academic who has also been an Honorary Fellow of the College for some years. I wish her the very best of good fortune.
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Naming a Bursary at Lucy Cavendish When ‘top up fees’ were introduced it was decided that no student
should be barred from attending the
donor or to honour somebody
admired by one or more donors.
University of Cambridge on
What better way to mark the 80th
of up to £3,000 (or £5,000 for mature
our President from 1985-1993, than
financial grounds and so Bursaries students) were introduced. The
University and the Colleges have
schemes whereby these Bursaries can be set up in the name of a
Birthday of Dame Anne Warburton, by naming a Bursary in her honour? Dame Anne worked tirelessly to
promote the College, oversaw the
huge expansion of the site with the building of Oldham Hall, de Brye,
Bertram and, of course, Warburton
Hall. Most of all those students who were here in her day remember her with great fondness and profound respect. Those of us who have
joined the College since but who have met Dame Anne here
understand this and feel the same way.
The Dame Anne Warburton 80th Birthday Bursary Fund was
launched at a party to mark her
birthday in June. It will form part of our Annual Giving programme and contributions are welcome at any
time. Equally if anyone would like to discuss naming a Bursary in
honour of someone close to them or to introduce a corporate donor to the Named Bursary scheme then please do not hesitate to contact Meryl Davies, Head of
Development on 01223 764020 or
development@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk
Baroness Perry (fifth President), Dame Anne (fourth President) and Dame Veronica (sixth President) at Dame Anne’s 80th Birthday Celebrations
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Lucy Cavendish Dinner The Lucy Cavendish Dinner will take place on Saturday 8 March
2008 (7pm for 7.30pm). The Dinner will be preceded by the Alumnae Association AGM.
All Alumnae and other members of the College are warmly invited to
attend the dinner. If you would like to take this as an opportunity to
organise a reunion for particular
year or subject groups, please feel free to contact the Head of Development.
The booking form for the dinner will be posted on the website
(www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk) and will
be emailed to alumnae. If you think that we do not have an email
address for you then please get in touch: development@lucycav.cam.ac.uk
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Fellows’ News Departures and Arrivals
Dr Brearley’s role in the
Fellow in History, spoke on
2006-07 saw Dr Sarah Brown leave
has been to ensure an efficient
century Christian-Jewish Relations’
us for a Research Chair at Anglia Ruskin University but we
welcomed Dr Jackie Brearley who is University Senior Lecturer in
Veterinary Anaesthesia. Dr Julie
Maxwell, Fellow in English, and Dr Catherine Mackenzie, University Lecturer in Law (Land Economy)
both joined the Fellowship for one year.
Dr Maxwell’s research this year has been led partly by invitations to contribute chapters to multi-
authored studies. ‘Early Modern Religious Prose’ (for the
forthcoming Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature) explores the literary legacy of
William Tyndale. Once the Bible was translated into the English
Department of Veterinary Medicine clinical service in anaesthesia, pain management and critical care; to
provide a lecture based course in anaesthesia to the fourth year
students; to provide clinical small
group learning experience for final year students and to try to ensure that the second year veterinary
students have some appreciation
that theoretical pharmacology has
clinical relevance by giving lectures in the MODA course. In addition
was Shakespeare’s rival. Julie also published a novel, You Can Live Forever, which was Book of the
Month on BBC Radio 5 in May and won a Betty Trask Award in June.
She has recently become a reviewer for Routledge’s on-line Annotated
University of Notre Dame in the
US. Dr Anat Scolnicov, Fellow in Law, presented a paper, at the
University of Sydney, on ‘Religion and the Political Imagination’.
Dr Jane Renfrew visited Canada
for the first time accompanying her
programme this year, the unit has managed to start some clinical
investigations, the major one being the sponsored investigation of a
new injectable anaesthetic drug.
is responsible for a large module,
spiritual life of the playwright who
the Medieval Institute at the
instigation of an active research
(for the forthcoming CUP
introduces the unconventional
Transformations, 950-1200 held at
very good about not requiring the
Dr Mackenzie is a University
publication Jonson in Context)
at a conference on European
although the department has been
language, what were the effects on
writing style? ‘Jonson and Religion’
‘Continuity and Change in Twelfth-
Lecturer in Environmental Law and International Environmental Law,
husband to the University of British
students in Law (LLM), Land
attending a conference on the
which is offered to postgraduate
Economy (MPhil), Engineering for Sustainable Development (MPhil)
and Technology Policy (MPhil). Her research explores the relationship between international law and forest policy.
Columbia in Vancouver and
influence of the Classical world on
contemporary societies. She visited the Museum of Ethnography in
Vancouver to see their collections of First Nation artefacts and the
University of British Columbia in
Victoria to see the impressive First
Bibliography of English Studies, her first assignment being Greg
Home and Away
Nation exhibits in the Royal
Walker’s writing Under Tyranny (OUP, 2005).
In 2006–07 the Fellows travelled to
various corners of the globe to share
particularly interested in the
their expertise at conferences and
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Victoria Museum, where she was ethnobotanical displays. From
there the Renfrews went on to the
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completed in 2008). She has also
investigating scattering from rough
Research Grant for the project
find application in radar remote
Missouri visiting the Missouri
received a British Academy Small
remains of the ancient city of
‘Language Education and Pedagogy
Botanic Garden and to seeing the Cahokia. In May/ June Dr Renfrew spent two weeks in the Kouphonisi studying this season’s finds from
the early bronze age sites of Kavos and Daskalio on Keros, and taking casts of the mat impressions on the bases of pots.
Dr Edith Esch gave the keynote
address at the Seminar on English
in English and French-speaking Cameroon: a Comparative
Approach to Primary School Teachers’ perceptions’(to be
carried out between March 08 and August 09).
Sue Brindley, Senior Lecturer in
Education, gave an invited opening keynote in Dubai at the Education
and Digital technologies conference on teachers, research and ICT. She also ran a seminar in Nice for
international teacher researchers on research methods in the social sciences.
Several Fellows used vital
sabbatical leave further to progress their work: Jane McLarty,
Admissions Tutor and Director of
Studies in Theology took time out and Empowerment in the
Developing World , Aga Khan
University, Karachi, Pakistan on ‘English and Empowerment:
potential, issues and prospects’ She also attended the British /Irish
Association in Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Cork and is
the International Scholar for Leila
Iyldyz, Central Asian Research and Teaching Initiative (CARTI) Junior Fellowship (Soros Foundation
funding) for her project ‘Impact of language policies in Kazakhstan Secondary Education’ (to be
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from teaching and her work in
College Admissions to finish the
first draft of her PhD (which she is working on part-time at King’s College London) on the role of
emotion in the Acts of Paul and
Thecla “an early Christian narrative
- like the canonical Acts, but racier”. Dr Orsola Rath Spivack, Fellow in Mathematics, used her sabbatical term to branch out her research interests to encompass
electromagnetic waves, as well as
acoustic waves, and to devise and
write a new Part III course on wave scattering. As a result she is now
dielectric surfaces with results that sensing. She is also continuing research into acoustic waves,
currently looking at propagation in random media in addition to
scattering from ship and aircraft hulls.
Dr Mirca Madianou, Fellow in
Social and Political Sciences was awarded an Early Career
Fellowship at the Centre for
Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) to
develop publications from her
research on Emotion and News. She was also awarded a Research Grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on ‘Migration, ICTs and the
transformation of transnational
family life’ and she will investigate ethnographically a hitherto unacknowledged aspect of
globalisation and migration: the
way it affects the private lives of
individuals. They are particularly
interested in the new phenomenon of transnational families and the role of new communication
technologies in the maintenance of
primary long-distance relationships. In March 2007 Dr Madianou was
invited to give a talk on nationalism and mediated culture at York
University, Toronto, Canada. She also presented papers from her
research on emotion and news at international conferences in San
Francisco (ICA), Oxford (CRESC),
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Symposium 2008, which is to be held in Cambridge.
Jillinda Tiley, Fellow in Law, has
Sue also now works for CARET, the
travelled widely: to Tenerife and
Educational Technology, where I
been on leave of absence and has Ascension Island en route to St
Helena, St Helena and then South
Africa; to the Netherlands twice to Leiden and Amsterdam and the
Hague, where she was entertained by the VP of International Court;
and to Finland and many trips to Scotland. She returned refreshed from her travels for the 2007-08 academic year.
Meanwhile Julie Dashwood
organised a conference at Lucy
Cavendish (see p.16) and gave a
lecture at the University of Palermo.
Centre for Applied Research in
have been mainly working with the
team who have introduced a virtual
collaborative environment for use in teaching and research across the
University. Known as CamTools,
the software system is now being
widely used by many members of
the University as well as a number of Colleges. The team at CARET
provides user support for CamTools as well as being involved with
software development to more closely match its functionality
with the needs of the academic community.
year focussed on establishing 2
randomised clinical trials to be run by the National Blood
Service/Medical Research Council Clinical Studies Unit. The first is a
3-5 year study to establish whether patients with sickle cell anaemia
require routine transfusion before
planned surgery to reduce the level of abnormal sickle haemoglobin.
The second study is to establish the
safety of blood passed through new filters designed to remove
infectious prions from blood
donations. Prions are the infectious agents which cause BSE and its
human counterpart vCJD. It is now clear that there is a small risk of vCJD transmission via blood
transfusion, and in the absence of a screening test, filtration
might be an effective way to
Dr Sue Jackson currently works in
Medics and Vets
protect the blood supply.
years been Executive Secretary of
Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Dr Allison Curry continues to have
Initiative (www.cei.group
our medical Fellows are vital
two areas: She has for the past three the Cambridge Environmental
.cam.ac.uk) which is based in the
Department of Earth Sciences. CEI
acts as a single point of contact for those people within and outside
the University who wish to find out ‘who is doing what’ in
environmental-related research
are two of our biggest subjects and
a busy life in the Lab at the
members of the University’s
Addenbrooke’s Hospital and recent
teaching staff as well as being active in research in the University. Dr Lorna Williamson, Reader in
Haematology has done research this
Department of Surgery,
publications are listed under Fellows’ publications.
Unfortunately, the British Heart
Foundation will not be funding this research in the future.
across all disciplines. They maintain
The third cohort of students from
researchers and host a series of
Medicine qualified this June. The
a web-based Directory of
colloquia to encourage inter-
disciplinary links and networks. We are currently supporting the
coordination and planning of the Leverhulme Climate Change
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the Cambridge Graduate Course in course continues to develop in line
with developments in the Standard Course, with changes planned to the final year curriculum for the coming academic year.
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Sarah Gull leads the “studentselected-component” on
Humanities in Medicine on the
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international conferences.
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Learning Fund and to the Careers Service Syndicate. As her turn
came round again this year to be
Standard course, which provides
Teaching and Tutorial
the College’s representative on the
the many ways the humanities can
Dr Allison Curry continues to enjoy
and to chair the CGCM Admissions
continues to be a productive source
always a mad rush in the Christmas
five weeks at Easter to think about enrich medical practice. This
of ideas. The college system in Cambridge provides for interdisciplinary conversation for
students and fellows and, this year,
with Trinity poet-in-residence Jacob Polley.
In a separate but related area is Dr Ruth Cameron whose research in pharmaceutical and medical
materials progresses well. Research
doing medical admissions. It is
Term trying to fit in shortlisitng and interviewing into a few weeks but then so gratifying to see the
previous year graduate in the
CGCM Committee of Management Forum, and other internal and
external committee work continued at its usual pace, it has been an
exceptionally busy year for our Senior Tutor.
summer. With the combination of
Jane McLarty has chaired the
Graduate Course in Medicine
the Faculty: they ran a Sutton Trust
Mature, affiliated and Cambridge students just under 1/3 of our
undergraduate population are
medics and it is great to see the developing an active medical society and joining in the
Cambridge Wilderness Society. Outside Lucy, Allison has been busy running classes for staff
development on supervising and
Access and Outreach Committee for Summer School in the Faculty for the first time this year. Jane has continued to teach Greek and a
variety of New Testament papers for the Divinity Faculty.
Lorna McNeur has been making the transition during the past two years, from sixteen years as a
small group teaching, and as an initiative by the Cambridge
Admissions Forum, courses for
those that conduct interviews for the University on interview
procedures/techniques to be used. is ongoing in materials for
orthopaedic replacement, nerve regeneration and drug delivery
through oral and pulmonary routes, with industrial and academic
One again I have been invited to represent the Cambridge
Admissions Office to interview
Oxbridge candidates in India this year.
collaborations with Cambridge, the
Julie Dashwood has been
community. Results from the group
Undergraduate Admissions
UK and the international
have been published in peer
reappointed to the University’s
University Lecturer at the
Committee and appointed to the
working with the Department on a
University Court of Discipline, to the committee of the Access to
Department of Architecture to
consulting basis, as an Affiliated
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block related to their architectural
Compacted Granular System” Particles and Particle System Characterisation, 2006, 23, 1-8
Medicine and Naturally Occurring Cross-linker” Crystal Growth and Design Submitted
production of essays or
R.E. Cameron “Cambridge Centre
architecture and other subjects more
materials for the body” Cambridge,
Y. Sun, S. P. Lacour, R. A. Brooks, N. Rushton, J. Fawcett, R. E. Cameron “Assessment of Biocompatibility of Photosensitive Polyimide for Implantable Medical Device Use” Biomaterials Submitted
Lecturer working with students
who might be suffering from design design work, or writer’s block in the dissertations, inclusive of
generally. In this way and in her
research, Lorna has been combining her knowledge of architecture, teaching, and psychotherapy; particularly in the realms of environment and emotions.
As well as carrying on as a member of CPAC and looking after and examining the Computational
Projects in Waves and in Nonlinear Dynamics for Part II of the Maths
Tripos Dr Orsola Rath Spivack also
teaches a Part III course. Selected Publications
Anna Sapir Abulafia published articles on ‘The Jews and the Crusades’ and ‘The Hebrew Sources’ in The Crusades. An Encyclopedia, ed. A.V. Murray (2006). Ruth Cameron X. Fu, M. Dutt, G.E. Milroy, C. Wu, A.C. Bentham, B.C. Hancock, G. Nichols, R.E. Cameron and J.A. Elliott “Investigation of Particle Packing and Compaction in Model Systems for Pharmaceutical Powders Using Quantitative X-ray Microtomography” Powder Technology, 2006, 167, 134-140 X. Fu, M. Dutt, J.A. Elliott , A.C. Bentham, B.C. Hancock and R.E. Cameron “Application of X-ray Microtomography and Image Processing to the Investigation of a
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for Medical Materials: designing 2006, 58, 3-4
Z. Yang, E.S. Thian, S.M. Best and R.E. Cameron “A Novel Way of Dispersing Fine Ceramic Particles in Polylactide-co-glycolide Matrix” Key Engineering Materials, 2007, 330332, 511 - 514 J.S. Capes and R.E.Cameron “Contact line crystallization to obtain metastable polymorphs” Crystal Growth and Design, 2007, 7(1), 108 - 112 J.S. Capes and R.E.Cameron “Effect of Polymer Addition on the Contact Line Crystallisation of Paracetamol” CrystEngCom, 2007, 9(1), 84-90 L.M Ehrenfried, M.H. Patel and R.E. Cameron, “The effect of tri-calcium phosphate (TCP) addition on the degradation of polylactide-coglycolide (PLGA)” Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine Accepted for publication P.R. Laity and R.E. Cameron “A Small Angle X-ray Scattering Study of Polymer Powder Compaction, Part 1: A Morphological Explanation for the Observed SAXS Behaviour” Powder Technology Submitted S.L. Trevor, M.F. Butler, S. Adams, P.R. Laity, J.C. Burley and R.E. Cameron, “Structure and Phase Transitions of Genipin, a Herbal
Allison Curry Curry A.J Chickwe J, Smith X.G, Cai M, Schwartz H, Bradley J.A, and Bolton E.M. (2004) OX40 (CD134) blockade inhibits the co-stimulatory cascade and promotes heart allograft survival. Transplantation 78: 807-814 CJ Callaghan, FJ Rouhani, MC Negus, AJ Curry, EM Bolton, JA Bradley, GJ Pettigrew (2007). The abrogation of antibody-mediated allograft rejection by regulatory CD4 T cells with indirect allospecificity. Journal of Immunology 178:2221-2228 Curry.A.J, Pettigrew G.J, Negus M.C, Easterfield.A.J, Young.J.L, Bolton E.M, and Bradley.J.A. (2007) Dendritic cells internalize and represent confomationally-intact soluble MHC class I alloantigens for generation of alloantibody. European Journal of Immunology 37(3): 696-705 Julie Dashwood reviewed the recent volume A History of Italian Theatre, edited by Joseph Farrell and Paolo Puppa, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006 for Pirandello Studies. Edith Esch Esch, E (2007), Français d’ailleurs: the pluricentricity of French Identities? in Bennett, W & Jones,
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M. (eds.) The French Language and Questions of Identity, London: Legenda (MHRA/Maney). Esch, E., (in press), Autonomy ten years on: Clash or Crash? In: Pemberton , R.et al.(eds.) Autonomy and Language Learning: maintaining Control. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press. Esch, E. (submitted) Researching Language Education in Cameroun in Mpoche, K.and K. Harrow (eds.) Language, Literature and Education in Multicultural Societies: Collaborative Research on Africa (submitted to Cambridge Scholars ed. ).
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Dr Helen Payne, Routledge, London, ISSN 1743-2979.c. Jane Renfrew The leaf and mat impressions. Chapter 8C in Marangue, L.,Renfrew C., Doumas C., and Gavalas G., Markiani on Amorgos, An early bronze age fortified site. British School of Archaeology, Athens Supplementary volume no. 40 Carbonized seeds. Chapter 9C in the same volume Food and Feasting in Antiquity Antiquity vol 80. 310f December 2006
Sarah Gull The Humanities in Medical Education in Cambridge Cambridge Medicine Vol 21 Issue 1 Feb 2007 50-52 Lorna McNeur Conference proceedings, “Metaphorical Manhattan”, Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture Editors: Odgers/Samuel /Sharr, conference publication, Routledge, London., ISBN13: 978-0-415-38538-1, pp. 176180 “NYC WTC 911 - The Healing Gardens of Paradise Lost” in Vista: The Culture and Politics of the Garden, Editors: Kingsbury/Richardson, Francis Lincoln Press, ISBN 07112 2575 3, pp. 161-180 “The Intimate Dance of Being, Buildings, and Body Psychotherapy”, in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, Autumn e-journal issue, Chief Editor
The President and Fellows at the induction of Anne Owers as an Honorary Fellow (Margaret Penston)
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Federico de Roberto translated into English by Archibald Colquhoun as The Viceroys (1961)
he is scarcely known in the English-
The conference had the generous
The title of the Conference,
the Department of Italian, and the
double meaning, referring both to the historical and political context of De Roberto’s work and to the
Our Senior Tutor, Julie Dashwood, co-organised a conference with our Visiting Fellow Professor
Margherita Ganeri (Università
della Calabria) at Lucy Cavendish on 22 and 23 March.
resurgence of scholarly interest in
him in Italy. Further, it was a major objective of the Conference to give impetus to such a resurgence outside Italy. Beginning with
Antonio Di Grado’s keynote paper,
new light was shed on the outdated naturalist and decadent readings of De Roberto, especially through an
analysis of the major themes of love
De Roberto is best known for his novel I Viceré (1894) set in Sicily in the years from 1850 to 1880, which tells the story of the aristocratic Uzeda di Francalanza family during and after the Italian Risorgimento and Unification. The Conference focused on the
and power in his work. An
Roberto (1861-1927). Born in
contemporary, Luigi Pirandello,
works and influence of Federico De Naples, but considered a Sicilian
writer as he spent most of his life in Catania, De Roberto is best known for his novel I Viceré (1894) set in Sicily in the years from 1850 to
1880, which tells the story of the
aristocratic Uzeda di Francalanza
family during and after the Italian
Risorgimento and Unification. After a period of neglect, De Roberto is again increasingly being
studied in Italy, but although his most famous novel was
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(2007) film based on I Viceré.
speaking world.
therefore, was chosen as it had a
Federico de Roberto
director Roberto Faenza’s new
examination of his influence on his and on the later Sicilian writer,
Tomasi di Lampedusa, widened
the debate on the treatment of the theme of the Risorgimento by
Sicilian writers and on the historical novel in general. Finally, a
contemporary and interdisciplinary perspective was provided by
Margherita Ganeri’s paper, the
concluding Round Table and the
discussion and presentation of film
support of the British Academy and co-organisers are now preparing the Conference Acts for publication.
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Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club May Bumps Report
between three of us we mustered
up the strength to fix it. Thanks to Ailsa (and Mum) for coming and helping us at the start, it’s really
appreciated, and to all the people
cheering us on from the bank, it’s
really encouraging, especially when the pain starts to set in!
Day 3 We bumped LMBC III!!! It
was a short and sweet race due to the fact they got off to a terrible
start, the strong current forced them back into the bank and they The Lucy Cavendish Hughes Hall May Bumps winning team
Day 1 Well today proved to be a
officially awarded. After many
were high, we had to do some last
the bump had been given!!!! I think
real rollercoaster of a ride. Tensions minute rearrangements of the crew which meant no-one really knew
how the boat was going to feel. The girls all knew we had put in more
work than probably any other crew
tense minutes it was confirmed that our cheers could be heard all along the river!! One down! One position
higher, and I still have the willow in my hair to prove it!
in out division (thanks to a very
Day 2 We bumped New Hall II!!!!
hour long ergs were necessary!),
minutes following the call from our
enthusiastic coach who insisted
and we all wanted to prove this. The cannon was fired and we got off to an amazing start, it was
confident and strong and there
were calls that we were catching on Churchill II with every stroke
whilst maintaining a good distance from CCAT II. The call came we
The race was over in roughly three cox that we were ‘catching like crazy’. She called for 10 strong
strokes to ensure the bump, but we only needed 2! Yet again, we
weren’t short of drama, we began
the day covering our boat in large
pieces of tape to repair the damage done during yesterdays bump.
had overlap but a split second later
Then, on the way to the start, one of
to a collision ahead. We collided
the bit that holds the blade in
a call came that we had to stop due hard with Churchill II but no-one knew if the bump had been
the gates on the boat broke (that’s
place). Luckily a chap on the bank
struggled to push away again.
Within 10 strokes we had overtaken them and it was race over.
Day 4 Lucy Cavendish-Hughes Hall rowing team won blades!!!
This is an amazing achievement and congratulations must go out to all the girls, our cox Ting, and our
coach Hayley for their hard work and commitment throughout the
past year. The last race was over in around a minute. We got another amazing start, and were catching
with every stroke... St. Cats didn’t stand a chance! Thank you to everyone who came down to
support us over the week, despite
the bad weather conditions we had
amazing support on the bank which really helped us all. We’re rapidly becoming a force to be reckoned with on the Cam!
Thanks again for your support Helen Atherton
was carrying a spanner and
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University Challenge presenting, and constantly being recognised in the street as a
celebrity (alright, I’m still waiting
for that one). If anyone missed it, I’m afraid to say it’s online at
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v10 47678f2bft5Sq, but please bear in
mind that I’ve been kidnapped and my shy, quiet alter ego is replacing me in the televised version. Anna Bull (2006) SPS
Jeremy Paxman with the Lucy Cavendish University Challenge team
Only two years ago Lucy
representatives from Lucy. Our
University Challenge, and this year
score of minus five, but we soon
Cavendish was represented in
we had the honour once again. Our distinguished team included Karen Alexander, studying natural
sciences, Tina Poole, archaeology
and anthropology, Laura Cowan,
English, myself as captain, studying
social and political sciences, and our reserve and organisational genius, medical student Nichola Hodges.
team began impressively with a took the lead by answering
questions ranging from celebrity
dogs to women’s fashion magazine editors. Alas, in the last few
minutes Warwick surged ahead and won with an impressive 225 points. The Paxman bestowed our final score of 130 with the epithet of ‘respectable’, and we retired to the green room to have
Our opponents were Warwick
a drink with him and our gracious
won the final the year before, albeit
shattered nerves.
University who, incidentally, had with a different team. It was my
opponents and piece together our
suspicion that they had chosen,
The only lasting scars I have
team to oppose the glamorous
Newsnight when Jeremy Paxman is
dare I say, a slightly nerdy male
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sustained are an inability to watch
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Lucy Cavendish College Choir Cavendish Annual Dinner, at which she was presented with a College Brooch. The choir also presented
her with gifts, and sent her on her way in traditional style – with a choir party! We will miss you Gillian.
The Choir Committee set about
recruiting a new director and were delighted with the pool of As the only non-audition, all female choir in Cambridge, the Lucy Choir holds a special place in the
as conducting the choir, Gillian Ruddick played the violin.
University. Under the direction of
The major work performed was
continued to grow in confidence
Helen Arnold joining us to sing the
Gillian Ruddick, the choir has and ability.
At the Christmas Recital, in
Michaelmas Term the choir sang a selection of traditional songs, and
was ably accompanied by a string
trio (Gillian Ruddick, Miriam Grant, Elizabeth Juett) with Sarah
Hickmott playing piano. Seasonal
songs and the College Grace were preformed at Christmas Formal Hall, rounding off an enjoyable evening with carols around the piano.
For the Annual Concert in March. We were joined by a chamber orchestra and other
instrumentalists, including Camilla Haggett (oboe) and Graeme
Mitchison (piano). Our rehearsal
accompanist, Miriam Grant, played piano, violin, and viola; Sarah
Hickmott played piano and, as well
Franz Schubert’s Mass in G, with
soprano solo. In previous concerts, all solo parts have been sung by
guests, but this year choir members
Pauline Blake, Jacquie Chan, Alison Vinnicombe, and Judith Whale
performed small solo parts. This
was a proud moment for the choir, and a tribute to our director,
Gillian, who has worked hard to
develop the talent of individuals and of the whole group.
Sadly, we said Goodbye to Gillian at the end of the year; she and her
husband John are off to begin a new chapter of their lives, in Crete!
Gillian worked with consistent
dedication and professionalism, and worked us hard too, but was a great director, popular with all, and
always ensured that we had lots of
fun along the way. In recognition of all Gillian has achieved with the
applicants, all of whom were
capable musicians, each with their own distinctive style. After
interviews and auditions, the choir and committee were unanimous in their choice of Katie Hawks. Katie joined us towards the end of the
year, and is already a great hit with members. She brings musicianship, professionalism, energy and
enthusiasm, and lots of laughs – a
perfect combination. We welcome Katie to the Lucy Choir, and look
forward to working with her during the next year.
On a more practical note (no pun
intended!), the choir has struggled financially for some time. Our
fortunes changed when we received a generous donation from an
anonymous benefactor. Without
this, we would have been unable to purchase sheet music, essential for
the Annual Concert. We would like to express our thanks for the generosity of the donor.
Pauline Blake (1999) Choir Secretary
choir, she was invited to the Lucy
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Further Adventures with Jane and Morag: Pedagogy in the Cyclades
site or somewhere else and why are
two on Dhaskalio, the possible
living on one site and practicing
possible ritual areas on Kavos.
they all fragmentary? Were they
some type of ritual activities on the
other? Were the two sites connected
Jane arrived this season to help
by the Aegean, as they are now. In
small finds (marble vessel
in antiquity or were they separated
order to find some of the answers to these questions, this year we
expanded the investigations to the neighbouring islet of Dhaskalio, thought to be the settlement
associated with the special deposit areas on the main island on Keros. In last season’s excavation we recovered about 350 figurine
fragments, which were purposefully broken in antiquity. This year we Morag planning on the island of Keros with Dhaskalio in the background (MM Kersal)
settlement area associated with the
keep up with the drawing of the fragments, spools, unique pottery)
as they came in from the excavation and to continue her work on the
cloth and mat impressions on the bases of the pots that provide
invaluable information on the
weaving techniques and types of fibres and mats used in Early
Bronze Age homes. The excavations at Dhaskalio yielded important
information about the Early Bronze
added another 100 from the Keros Special Deposits. We found hundreds of marble bowl
fragments, very few of which seem Once again Jane Renfrew and I spent part of the summer participating in the archaeological excavations at the Early Bronze Age (ca. 3200 BC to 2000 BC) sites of Kavos on Keros and the associated islet of Dhaskalio in the lesser Cyclades. As you will recall from last year’s
to fit together. We also unearthed a
research question for this project
made from special materials (such
account of our adventures, the basic includes a greater understanding of the inhabitants of the Early Bronze Age in this region. Why did the
early inhabitants of the Cycladic islands make the famed marble
figurines and how were they used? Where did they get the raw
materials for the figurines? Were they making the figurines on the
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large number of spools/weights
Jane and a mat impression (T. Loughlin).
as spondylus shell and metal), also
Age settlement. Unexpectedly all of
This was no ordinary rubbish
been imported from the nearby
deliberately broken in antiquity. deposit. As with many
archaeological projects the first
season left us with more questions
the answers, so we re-examined our research strategy and decided to concentrate the efforts of season
the building stone appears to have island of Naxos. The finds in the
settlement of Dhaskalio included three complete figurines and
hundreds of stone discs, which may have been used as lids for pots.
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around the numerous caves in the Kavos region, which may or may
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purposes, but the caving investigations go on.
not be associated with the site. In a
Once again the team was comprised
Doumas, they discuss the
archaeologists and specialists
1998 article by Bassiakos and
possibility of the cave just north of
the special deposit being associated with ritual use by the Early Bronze Age inhabitants. With the aid of geologists Tim Kinnaerd and
Professor John Dixon, we managed to identify the Bassiakos and
of an international group of
however there was new element to
the joint Greek-UK excavation team – students. In the post-excavation analysis of the last excavation
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results of our research to both the academic community and the
general public. By instituting a
public day at the site, we integrated the local residents in the site
investigations by inviting them to visit the site in order to gain a
greater appreciation of what we were doing on two remote and
seemingly inhospitable islands. But
As someone interested in ethics and archaeology and the pedagogical
Doumas “ritual cave” and we
outcomes as a result of our actions, I was tasked with organizing the
look for evidence of human use.
season we noted that there seemed
we could be doing more to advance
natural limestone formation) and
some consideration we realized that
part of our archaeological
excavated a small trench in order to After 60cm we hit bedrock (the we recovered only one pottery
field school. to be something missing and after there was no structured
archaeological knowledge and it is responsibilities. As result it was
decided that we would incorporate a field school element into the excavation program, bringing
undergraduate students from North America (unfortunately the timing of our field season coincides with
the exam period for most students from the UK and Europe). The
Keros Number One Archaeological Field School was born.
As someone interested in ethics and archaeology and the pedagogical
outcomes as a result of our actions, I was tasked with organizing the field school. On paper it seemed
like a simple undertaking, but I was Nicholas from Amorgos excavating in one of the caves (M.M. Kersel)
sherd, one fragmented animal bone
pedagogical emphasis. One of the
was not being used for ritual
archaeologist is to disseminate the
and one sea shell. Perhaps this cave
ethical responsibilities of an
naïve… Organizing a field school for 12 students from the US and
Canada was a huge adventure, one that had a very auspicious
beginning – a ferry strike at Piraeus on May 1! Welcome to Greece, our
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introductory lectures on the Early Bronze Age in the Cyclades, by Professor Colin Renfrew, the
excavation director. We prevailed upon the generosity of all to
participate in the field school as we called on upon both staff and
visitors to speak to the students, no one was immune. The students
were privileged to have lectures
and seminars on a wide range of topics from a number of notable Finally on the Boat at 1:00am, after waiting for the ferry strike to end (M.M. Kersel)
ferry to Koufonisi will be delayed by 9 hours. As you can see
everyone was a very good sport about the long wait.
The field school hit the ground running with the students
immediately being integrated into the daily schedule. Students
experts (Peggy Sotirakopoulou,
Charly French, Yannis Maniatis,
Christos Doumas, Tristan Carter,
Neil Brodie, and Evi Margaritis, one of Jane’s former PhD students,
among them). Jane provided the
students with a fascinating morning on palaeoethnobotany where she challenged our future
archaeologists to raise an awareness of the importance of collecting
alternated between the field and the
The birthday tiara (M.M. Kersel)
paleobotany samples, while I
introduced them to the world of archaeological ethics.
The students quickly integrated themselves into the local
community, playing in the local football matches, attending the
Eurovision song contest evening,
watching local films, Greek dancing at the tavernas and making daily
visits to the local bakery where they often received special treats. Field
school birthdays were celebrated in style with the wearing of the birthday tiara.
apotheke (the laboratory) so that
To say that the field school was
archaeology. Every effort was made
It is statistically unlikely that all 12
they might experience all aspects of
action packed is an understatement.
to find the special niche of each
of the students will remain in
student (one is a very talented artist
archaeology, or that they all
and worked with one of the
enjoyed the long hot days in the sun
professional archaeological
and the wind and the often cold
illustrators; while another expressed
rain (we experienced an
an interest in paleobotany and
uncharacteristic number of cold wet
spent time processing flotation
days in May), but Jane and I hope
samples, expressing such
that the students came away with
excitement over finding a single
some valuable life lessons and a
seed that I know Jane took great
greater understanding of
delight). Each day there was a
lecture or seminar on a particular topic, which ranged from stratigraphy, to ethics, to
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archaeology and Greece. Rebecca Mullins (University of Ottawa) with a find from the water sieve (M.M. Kersel)
For Jane and I the field school
continued the grand tradition of
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adventure in the Cyclades, it was a pleasure to introduce field archaeology to those who
previously had only studied it in the classroom or library, but it was an
even greater pleasure to see our site and its mysteries through the eyes
of someone experiencing the Bronze Age Aegean for the first time. We still have a lot of questions to
answer about the inhabitants of
Keros and Dhaskalio, but we now
have 12 more people thinking about the enigma of the Cycladic Early
Bronze Age. We hope to continue
the field school tradition next year, stay tuned.
Morag M. Kersel (2002)
Jane Renfrew with the Keros Number One Archaeological Field School participants (M.M. Kersel)
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Honorary Fellows Citations from the inductions of Honorary Fellows
Stella Rimington
Marriage to a childhood friend,
She served in all the key
When Dame Stella Rimington was
and in 1965 she accompanied her
counter-terrorism, counter-
appointed Director General of MI5
in 1992, she achieved two firsts: she became the first woman to occupy the post since the service was
founded in 1909 and the first to be
publicly named. She was delighted to get “one of the best jobs” in the world and felt that it was the
culmination of her career. A career throughout which she had met
resistance as both a woman and a mother, but had remained
determined to do things her way.1 Dame Stella was born in South
Norwood, London in 1935. During the war the family moved to the North West but settled in
Nottingham when she was 12 and
where she attended the Nottingham High School for Girls. She read
English at Edinburgh University and then, in 1958, attended
Liverpool University to read for a
postgraduate diploma in the Study of Records and Archives.
In 1959 Dame Stella started work as an Assistant Archivist in the
Worcestershire County Record
Office, which housed the archives of the county and diocese of
Worcester. She transferred in 1962 to the India Office Library in London, where she was an
Assistant Keeper responsible for the manuscripts relating to the British rule in India.
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John Rimington, followed in 1963, husband on a diplomatic posting to New Delhi, believing that she had
now to give up her career and was unlikely to work again. However,
New Delhi was to mark the start of Dame Stella’s secret service career when, as a dutiful, but bored
departments at MI5, including espionage and counter-subversion, becoming a director of all three
branches, before becoming Deputy Director General in 1990 and then the thirteenth Director General in 1992.
diplomatic housewife, she was
During her time as Director General
secretary and asked if she would be
openness for MI5, giving the 1994
approached one day by a first interested in part-time work assisting the local MI5
representative at the High
Commission in New Delhi. She
was engaged as a clerk and typist to help out with the paperwork but found the work “sufficiently
interesting…to want to pursue it”. On her return to the UK she
decided that she would rather be an MI5 Officer than an archivist and
successfully applied for a full time job with MI5.
she pursued a policy of greater
Dimbleby Lecture on BBC TV and several other public lectures and publishing a booklet about the
Service - Intelligence, Security and
the Law in 1994. She used her role
to bring MI5 out of the shadows. “I have always wanted to bring some daylight into the world of
intelligence. I was always fed up with the breathless James Bond
approach which the press and a lot
of other people have to the world of intelligence.”
Her first job was checking
After 27 years working for the
Party. Although the work was
MI5 in 1996 but has continued to be
membership of the Communist boring, she knew she had found the career she had always craved. At the same time, she became aware that many within MI5 at the time
thought that women should be kept in their place. The atmosphere at
MI5 was male, public school and clubby. She has said “the
perception was that women were
not really suitable to go out and do the sharp end work.”
Security Service, she retired from busy. She was a Non-Executive
Director of Marks & Spencer plc
from 1997 to 2004 and of BG Group from 1997 until May 2005. She has also been Chairman of the Institute
of Cancer Research and a Trustee of the Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust, and a Trustee of the Royal Air Force Museum.
She is now pursuing a career as a motivational speaker, executive
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mentor, and author, having
ame Stella is no stranger to Lucy
Secret in 2001 and her first novel, At
in the summer and gave a
published her autobiography Open Risk, in 2004. Her second novel, Secret Asset, was published in August this year.
She has received honorary degrees from Nottingham, Exeter, London Metropolitan and Liverpool
Universities, and was elected
Alumna of the Year by Edinburgh
University in 1994. In 1996 she was
appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath.
In a recent interview Dame Stella was asked to recall some of the headlines that greeted the
announcement of her appointment as Director General in 1992, and in
particular those that she would like to erase. “One I didn’t like was
‘Housewife Superspy’. ‘Mother of Two Gets Tough with Terrorists’ was another. I think ‘Housewife
Superspy’ is the one I would wipe away. It was the whole instinct of the tabloid press, when they
suddenly found a woman in a
man’s job, to get her back where
they thought she belonged: in the kitchen. It seemed to typify a
tabloid approach to a woman succeeding at work.”2
Such attitudes would incense most of us, but especially to a woman who throughout her career has
fought to beat and change an entire culture, formerly dominated by the ‘tweedy guys with
pipes’.3
Cavendish College. She visited us fascinating lecture to a crowded
audience on “Leading in Secret”. 1 http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 1/hi/uk/1683350.stm 2 http://www.robmcgibbon.com/ index.php5?t=article&l=press-conferencewithdame-stella-rimington-web-edit 3 http://www.guardian.co.uk/ freedom/Story/0,,549035,00.html
Anne Owers Anne Owers’s appointment as HM Chief Inspector of Prisons on 1 August 2001 prompted much
comment, and not solely because
she was the first woman to hold the post. The adage about keeping
your allies close, and your enemies
closer sounds too Machiavellian for modern politics, but the
government’s selection of Anne Owers to succeed Sir David
Ramsbotham surprised many.
Not least Anne Owers herself, who thought her application would not make it past the home office
ministers she had so persistently
needled since Labour came to office. As director of the human rights
charity Justice - a pillar of the liberal establishment - she could not have been more different to her
predecessors Sir Stephen Tumim, a former judge, and Lord
Ramsbotham, an Army man. She attended Washington Grammar School in County Durham and read history at Girton. From 1968-1971 she taught in Zambia and
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undertook research for a PhD in African History.
While taking time out to bring up her three children, she continued with her research and also
undertook voluntary advice and race relations work. In 1981 she joined the Joint Council for the
Welfare of Immigrants as Research & Development Officer, becoming General Secretary four years later. During this time she was also a member of the Race and
Community Relations Committee of the Church of England and the
Board of the Centre for Research
into Ethnic Relations at Warwick University.
In 1992 she became Director of
Justice, the all-party human rights
and law reform organisation, often
dubbed the ‘conscience’ of the legal profession. She held the Director
post for nine years and during that time she was a member of various
Government committees including the Home Office Task Force on the implementation of the Human Rights Act and the Lord
Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct. She carried out work on human
rights, asylum and the provision of legal services, becoming a member
of both the Public Interest Advisory Panel of the Legal Services
Commission and the Bowman Review of the Administrative Courts.
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It is said that her greatest triumph
of what ought to be provided in any
She has written numerous articles
help secure the setting up of the
understands that although
immigration law, and she has
during her time at Justice was to
Criminal Cases Review Commission which was created to investigate more effectively possible miscarriages of justice.
As Chief Inspector of Prisons, she oversees the inspection of the 139
custodial environment. It
prisoners have forfeited many of
their rights of freedom, it is crucial that their basic human rights be
respected and that an important measure of a society is how it treats its prisoners.
Prison Service establishments in
During her tenure she has
the treatment of prisoners and the
conditions in Young Offender
England and Wales and reports on conditions in which they are held. All prisons, remand centres, and young offender institutions -
whether they are managed by the public service or contracted out are subject to inspection at le
ast once every five years, and she
herself inspects a prison about once a fortnight.
Speaking at a lecture (entitled ‘Prison Inspection and the
Protection of Human Rights’) at the University of Leicester in 2004, she
stressed that there were four criteria by which prisons were, and should be, judged: whether prisoners feel safe, whether they were treated
with respect and dignity, whether there was purposeful activity for
them in prison; and whether they
were prepared for release into the community at the end of their
sentence. 1 These criteria are based
on the concept of a ‘healthy prison’ as that first set out by the World
Health Organisation, and which is
now widely accepted as a definition
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campaigned to improve the
Institutions and prison including
improved suicide prevention work, better education and increased
purposeful activity. And, she has
on criminal justice and refugee and contributed to and co-edited
publications on human rights and race discrimination. She was
awarded the CBE in 2000 for her work on human rights, and was made an Honorary Fellow of
London South Bank University in 2005.
1 http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/ humanrights/Lectures/ 9_December_2004.htm 2 http://www.le.ac.uk/la/ research/annual.html 3 http://62.189.48.38/Articles/ 2006/06/28/54717/Anne+Owers+ appointment+extended.html
maintained the tradition of her
predecessors, speaking her mind
Anna Ford
with increasing frankness, not least in regard to the Government’s
Anna Ford is well-known and
recent (and ultimately unsuccessful)
respected for her contribution to news and current affairs, and in
attempt in the Police and Justice Bill to subsume the role of Chief
Inspector of Prisons into a single
inspectorate for justice, community safety and custody. This would have replaced the five existing
justice inspectorates of the police,
particular for her news reading,
having worked as a journalist for 32 years, but a study of her life and career to date reveals many and varied interests and the
achievement of a number of ‘firsts’.
the Crown Prosecution Service,
Anna read Economics at
the National Probation Service.
in Social Anthropology before going
court administration, prisons and Speaking In June last year, when the Home Office announced the
extension of her appointment until March 2008, she expressed her concerns over the proposed
legislation, fearing “that the sharp focus and direct voice of prisons inspection [would] be lost or
muffled within a broader and differently focused body.”2
Manchester University, specialising on to complete a postgraduate
diploma in Adult Education. She
has the distinction of being elected
in 1966 as the first woman president of Manchester’s Student Union,
which is neatly mirrored by her election in 2001 as the first ever
female Chancellor of the University of Manchester.
She was awarded
an Honorary Doctorate of Law in
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1998 from Manchester and also
programme and Woman’s Hour on
Anna was a trustee of the Royal
the Open University and an
Jimmy Young on BBC Radio 2. She
years, and is a Fellow of the Royal
holds an Honorary Fellowship from Honorary Doctorate from Queen’s
University Belfast for her services to journalism.
Before embarking on her television career, Anna taught Politics and Sociology at the Rupert Stanley
College of Further Education in
Radio 4, as well as standing in for
has made radio documentaries on
Women in the 20th Century, as well as Complementary Medicine. From its relaunch in May 1999 until she
stepped down in April 2006, Anna
was the presenter of the BBC’s One O’ Clock News.
Botanical Gardens in Kew for ten
Geographical Society, an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple, and a non-executive director of
Sainsburys. She is also Chairman of Index on Censorship, an
organisation that campaigns for those whose voices have been silenced and for freedom of
Belfast whilst teaching as a part-
Not confining herself to news-
She subsequently joined the OU in
included Have I Got News For You
Today, she regularly chairs
Television’s Stars Sing The Beatles
award ceremonies, as well as giving
time tutor for the Open University. 1972 as Staff Tutor for Social Science for Northern Ireland, and it is said
that during this period she taught a class of interned Provisional
members of the IRA in Long Kesh. Anna’s main break into television came in 1974 when she joined
reading, guest appearances have and a singing role in BBC
with her version of ‘Here, There and Everywhere’, reviving
memories, it is said, of her student days when she toured Manchester clubs with her elderly Spanish
expression and against censorship. seminars and hosts conferences and after dinner speeches, but still finds time to maintain her interest in art,
taking regular drawing classes with Mary Fedden.
guitar, earning £5 a night.
Anna Ford needs no introduction to
working on numerous local and
In 1985 Anna published Men - A
talented women whose career has
recruited by the BBC in 1976 to
with Englishmen about their lives,
Granada Television as a researcher, educational programmes. She was work as a reporter on the Man
Alive team and then moved on to
Tomorrow’s World in 1977 before joining the ITN team in 1978 as
Documentary, a book of interviews and continues to write articles for many different publications on matters of current interest.
their first prime-time female
She has never been afraid to voice
1981 when she was one of the
“Although I’ve been in trouble for
newscaster where she stayed until famous five who launched the breakfast programme TV-AM.
Anna returned to the BBC in 1986 to present the Network, a live studio based current affairs programme. She joined the Six O’ Clock News
on BBC1 in 1989 and was also to be heard presenting the Today
any of us. She is one of those
demonstrated that it is possible to
combine an academic background with success in another sphere. 4 Interview with SAGA Magazine, 2006
her views, and is quoted as saying being outspoken occasionally, I
haven’t always recognised myself in such headlines as “Angry Anna slams BBC bosses.” But then, as
Rebecca West said ‘People call me a feminist if I say anything to
differentiate myself from a doormat or a prostitute.’”4.
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The College 2006-07 President Sutherland, Dame Veronica Evelyn BA MA (HON)LLD DBE CMG
Honorary Fellows Black, Professor Dame Carol Mary MD FRCP FMedSci CBE DBE Burbidge, Professor Eleanor Margaret (Margaret) FRS Cohen of Pimlico, Baroness Janet MA Dench, Dame Judith Olivia (Judi) Hon DLitt Hon DUniv OBE DBE CH Ford, Ms Anna Glassman, Dr Cynthia Aaron (Cyndi) Grantchester, Lady (Betty) MA Hanratty, Miss Judith LLB LLM OBE Harris, Dame Pauline DBE Hetzel, Mrs Phyllis MA HM Queen Margrethe of Denmark, Hon LLD Oldham, Dr Barbara MA MB CHB MRCS LRCP OBE Owers, Ms Anne CBE Perry of Southwark, Baroness Pauline MA Hon LLD Hon DLitt Hon DUniv Richard, Professor Alison MA PhD Rimington, Dame Stella Tizard, Dame Catherine A (Cath) BA GCMG GCVO DBE QSO Todd, Professor Janet (Jan) MA PhD Tomalin, Mrs Claire MA FRSL Trumpington of Sandwich, The Rt Hon the Baroness Jean Alys PC DCVO Warburton, Dame Anne MA Hon LLD DCVO CMG
Emeritus Fellows Collier, Dr Jane BSc MA PhD Hartree, Dr Anne Stockell BA MA PhD Lyons, Mrs Ursula MA Mackintosh, Mrs Ellen MA Morgan, Dr Clare Barnes BSc MA PhD Simms, Mrs Joan Anne MA Squire, Mrs Natasha MA Dipolome Superieur de Russe Thoday, Dr Doris Joan BSc MA PhD Traub, Dr Lindsey Margaret MA PhD Treip, Dr Mindele Anne BA MA PhD Tucker, Dr Elizabeth Mary (Betty) BSc MA PhD DSc
Governing Body Fellows Abulafia, Dr Anna Brechta Sapir MA PhD FRHistS Bahn, Dr Sabine MD PhD MRCPsych Brearley, Dr Jacqueline Chryscillian (Jackie) MA Vet MB PhD Dip ECVA MRCA MRCVS Brindley, Ms Sue MA MA MA Cameron, Dr Ruth MA PhD MInstP CPhyS Curry, Dr Allison MA PhD Dashwood, Mrs Julie Rosalind BA MA Davies, Ms Meryl Grace BA MPhil Ellington, Dr Stephanie Katharine Lindsay BSc MA PhD Esch, Dr Edith Marie MA PhD
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Greatorex, Dr Jane Suzette BTec FMLS PhD Gull, Mrs Sarah Elizabeth MBBS FRCS(ED) FRCOG Houghton, Mrs Margaret Christine (Christine) BA MA Jackson, Dr Susan (Sue) MA PhD CEng Jones, Dr Ruth MA MB CHB FRCA Koenig, Dr Jennifer (Jenny) BSc PhD MacKenzie, Dr Catherine Patricia MA MEd PhD Madianou, Dr Mirca BA MSc PhD Maxwell, Dr Julie BA MPhil PhD McLarty, Ms Jane Deane BA MA MPhil McNeur, Ms Lorna Anne BArch MA MPhil Penston, Dr Margaret Joan BSc MA DPhil FRAS MBE Rath Spivack, Dr Orsola MA PhD Rawlings, Miss Susan Elizabeth MA Renfrew, Dr Jane Margaret MA PhD FSA FSA (Scot) FLS Scolnicov, Dr Anat LLB LLM PhD Tiley, Mrs Jillinda Millicent MA Vinnicombe, Ms Alison Annette BA MA Dip RSA Williamson, Dr Lorna McLeod BSc MD FRCP FRCPath Wright, Dr Laura MA MA DPhil
Bursar Carter, Dr David CVO
Research Fellows Banaji, Dr Ferzina Vistasp BA MPhil PhD Dally, Dr Joanna Mary BSc PhD Depledge, Dr Joanna Jane BA MSc PhD Forman, Dr Julia Rebecca AB MPhil PhD Gardner, Dr Nicola BA PhD MBA Nicholson, Dr Rebecca Louise MChem DPhil Viswanath, Dr Rupa MA MPhil PhD Fellow-Commoners Corbalis, Ms Judy BA MA Hewitt, Ms Joanna Hoti, Dr Amineh James, Professor Mary Elizabeth BEd MA PhD Muthesius, Professor Anna Maria BA PhD FSA Pearse, Dr Barbara PhD FRS Purkiss, Mrs Brenda A MA Raj, Dr Dhooleka Sarhadi PhD
Visiting Fellows Ganeri, Professor Margherita Lee, Ms Natalie LLB Lynch, Professor Kathleen BSocSc, MSocSc, PhD, Dip Com Dev Mollerhoj, Dr Jette Sica, Professor Anna
Visiting Scholars Chen, Dr Jessica Hsin-Hwa Danno, Dr Emiko BA MA PhD Sharpe, Ms Mary LLB MA Dip
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Members by Election Dain, Dr Anne Rutherford BSc MPhil PhD Harris, Mrs Mary Hill AB MA Certificat d’Archologie Whear, Dr Rachael BSc PhD
Honorary Members of the Combination Room Anderson, Dr Helen PhD Arnot, Professor Madeleine MA PhD Barr, Miss Freda Elizabeth Hadley (Betty) LLB Bartholomew, Dr Susan L BA MA MBA Belcher, Dr Hilary J PhD DSc Blacker, Dr Carmen PhD Brinton, Ms Sarah Virginia (Sal) MA Bristow, Mr Christopher (Chris) MA Brooke, Dr Rosalind Beckford BA MA PhD LittD Brown, Professor Sarah Annes BA MA PhD Bryant, Mr David Peter Herbert Cheney, Mrs Mary Gwendolen MA MLitt Clarke, Dr Ann BSc PhD Crawford, Dr Harriet E W MA PhD FSA Hawthorn, Ms Ruth MA Herbert, Dr Gertraud MA DPhil Joysey, Dr Valerie Christine BSc PhD Martin, Dr Jessica Heloise MA PhD Newns, Lady Beryl Wattles Ngubane, Professor Harriet BA PhD Perry, Mr George MA Med Rampling, Dr Anita Margaret BSc PhD MB ChB Rodriguez, Professor Raquel Emilia Sheppard, Dr Jennifer Mary (Jenny) BA MA PhD Slater, Dr Lucy Joan MA PhD Dlitt ScD Spens, Dr M Teresa (Teresa) PhD Stein, Dr Janet Mary BSc MSc PhD Sutherland, Mr Alex Swale, Dr Erica Mary Forster MSc PhD DSc Tee, Mrs Mary Louise Holden (Louise) MA Vassilika, Dr Eleni BA MA PhD Weatherley, Mrs Helen Wheeler, Dr Joyce Margaret BSc PhD FRAS Worden, Mrs Dorothy Mary (Mary) BA Young, Professor Maureen MSc PhD
Members of the Combination Room Bayraktaroglu, Dr Arin PhD Bocking, Miss Marjorie BSc Bradbrook, Dr Bohuslava R DPhil PhD Bradshaw, Ms Sally Burney, Ms Elizabeth MA BLitt Butterworth, Mrs Jill BA MA Carlton Smith, Dr Nancy BSc PhD Chapman, Dr Elizabeth Claire (Liz) PhD Cleary, Ms Ritva-Liisa (Liisa) MA HUK Dip LIB ALA Cobby, Dr Anne MA PhD Corsellis, Mrs Ann BA OBE JP Hon FIL Cotton, Ms Geraldine
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Davies, Mrs Karen BA MA Dawson, Miss Julie De Smith, Mrs Barbara LLB MA Dee, Dr Lesley MEd PhD Dillon, Dr Anne Kathleen PhD Eggins, Professor Heather BA PGCE MPhil Fritzinger, Dr Linda B BA MA PhD Ghosh, Dr Barnali BTech MTech PhD Graham, Mrs Jenny MA Grieco, Professor Margaret Sybil DPhil MCIT Hampton, Mrs Janie BA MSc Haresnape, Dr Elizabeth PhD Hendriks, Dr Henriette PhD Hennegan, Miss Alison MA Hill, Dr Penelope Margaret Mary (Penny) BPharm MRPharms PhD Hodder, Mrs Elizabeth BSc Holbrook, Mrs Margot MA Hunt, Mrs Pauline Ife, Dr Anne PhD Innes, Mrs Sheila BA PGCE Kan, Dr Qian BA MA PhD Kleine Staarman, Dr Judith MSc PhD Lee, Ms Karen BA MA Leggatt, Ms Melanie (Mel) HND BA MSc Lichtenstein, Ms Jane Limb, Dr Ann Geraldine BA MA PGCE Hon FCGI Hon PhD Lucas, Mrs Angela M MA Mannion, Ms Paddy BVMS MRCVS Morris, Ms Alexandra (Alex) BA MA Panayotova, Dr Stella PhD Parodi, Dr Teresa PhD Rogers, Dr Gillian Elizabeth BA MA PhD Rushden, Mrs Cynthia Elizabeth (Elizabeth) BA Schiffmann, Dr Victoria Relisse (Vicky) BA MA PhD Sellers, Professor Susan PhD Tipper, Professor Karen Sasha (Sasha) AB MA PhD Tooke, Dr Nichola MSc PhD Vickers, Dr Ilse Renate BA PhD Wallach, Dr Robin PhD Walsham, Mrs Alison MA Wilson, Dr Anji BSc MSc PhD Wilson, Dr Jean MA PhD FSA Windram, Dr Heather Frances BSc PhD Wood, Ms Jennifer Susan Shirley (Jenny) BSc MSc Dip PhD Worsnop, Dr Victoria Mary (Vicki) BA MA PhD
Post-Doctoral Members of the Combination Room Li, Dr Qinling Maher, Dr Lisa A BSc PhD Videler, Dr Hortense (Tennie) PhD
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The Students First Years Atack, Carol Atkins, Bink Bidston, Lorna Blumstein, Anna Bull, Anna Bullock, Sally Chow, Hang Cordell, Suzanne Cowan, Laura Dyer, Adrine Fonceca, Myra Goldsmith, Hannah Hackett, Kate Hickmott, Sarah Hodges, Nichola Hodgett, Tina Kohler, Katharina Kranenburg, Hannah Lee, Marchette Lorek, Andrea Loweth, Kirsty Michalski, Annette Menzies, Gillian Okwu, Ifeoma Orzechowska-Redmond, Malgorzata Poole, Christina Raby, Sophie Santolaria, Zoe Shaheen, Mussarat Silva, Filipa Sparsis-Bermejo, Jessica Thijs, Christine Watson, Eleanor Whitehead, Nicola Woods, Caroline Woods, Kate
Second Years Adeyeye, Nina Alexander, Karen Anderson, Jane Baillie, Donna Budanova, Natasha Buhr, Susan Burney, Jacqueline Button, Brigid Carvello, Lesley Chan, Jacqueline Chowdhury, Marie Cousins, Lesley Cox, Holly Davies, Gemma Drummond, Sally Duncan, Gem Faramarzi, Maryam Gooch, Valerie Gurney, Eleanor
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Hamilton, Jill Hom-Choudhury, Anindita Hope, Catherine Jackson, Sara Jenkins, Sarah Juhasz, Judith Knibbs, Shirley Lloyd, Rosalind Matsui, Seiko Okafor, Onyinye Richardson, Gemma Rzechorzek, Nina Santos, Simonette Skelton, Jane Tabl, Hala Taylor, Jennifer Thatcher, Lannah Thomson, Alison Yeoman, Emma
Third Years Brokenshire, Lorna Brown, Rachel Burke, Ailbhe Fossey, Michelle Franks-Jones, Jane Hwang, Soo Jeong Jabeen, Sidra Jacks, Jane Jenkinson, Rebecca Johnston, Josephine Khan, Aminah Lai, Tracy Lea, Claire Lin, Zhiyan Mace, Anna Mahadevan, Meera Marriott, Rebecca Marshall-Quinn, Hannah McRitchie Pratt, Suzie Parsons, Cheyne Poole, Katherine Pope, Rhiannon Rayner, Kate Simpson, Julie Sopp, Hazel Spencer, Debra Tandy, Sarah Tchum, Utibe Tickell, Carolyne Tomlinson, Lisa Van Den Berg, Hanne Vincenzi, Giulia
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In Memoriam Eileen Clifford 1912-2007 Eileen Clifford died on 19 May 2007 in her 96th year. With her death
non-residential student, Elizabeth
Huntingdon Grammar School
the College for supervising a
School). Thus teaching and history
Dupre - earning the first fee paid by member of the College, she later recollected with pride. On her
retirement from the Governing
Body in 1982 she was elected an
Emeritus Fellow but continued to
play a role on committees such as
the Garden sub-Committee and to enjoy many of the College’s social
occasions. The College became her home and her family and to it she devoted her loyalty and affection. She delighted in its development from such small beginnings and
was proud to have been part of its Lucy Cavendish loses not only one
history.
of its surviving Founding Fellows,
Eileen was born Margaret Eileen
beginnings of the College, but also a
Yorkshire (on her father’s side) and
and thus an important link with the loyal and enthusiastic supporter of the College. For fifty years, since her marriage to George in 1957,
when she gave up her twenty four year career as a schoolteacher, she
became deeply involved with Lucy Cavendish, joining the Dining
Group (formed in 1950) in 1957: at its November meeting in 1959 she
was elected its Steward - a post she held for the next sixteen years. In 1965 she became one of the 22
Founding Fellows and when Kate Bertram was elected President in
1970 she became Vice President. In the absence of Kate Bertram in the Lent Term of 1976 on a research visit to Guyana she served as
Acting President. She became
supervisor in history of the first
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Lloyd Smith, having roots in both
Wales (her mother’s). She was born on February 22nd 1912 in the
schoolhouse at Berriew in what was then Montgomeryshire, a small
village where her father Frederick
Charles Smith taught at the school where her maternal grandmother
had been headmistress. In 1915 her
brother Alistair (who died in action
in the Second World War) was born and the family moved to
moved and became Hinchingbroke were a part of her early years - “I have always been surrounded by history” she once commented. Eileen attended Huntingdon
Grammar School where, according
to her nephew Jeremy Taylor, “she was a star pupil… and top in
everything”. Already there she displayed an equal interest in
English as in history, subjects both of which she later studied at
Cambridge. At the age of eleven she won a County Scholarship and sat the Certificate of Education at the
age of 15. However, she stayed on for a further three years, twice doing Highers (in English and
History) because, as she said, the topics changed and she was
interested in them. In the sixth form she twice won the Lowman Memorial Prize for the best
performance in the English Higher exam - the prize money, not
surprisingly, she spent on books, which also included Gilbert and
Sullivan libretti! She went on to win a Stale Scholarship and sat the entrance exam for Girton.
Huntingdon where her father
She had decided she wanted to go
Grammar School - a school where,
head teacher wanted her to go to
taught geography at Huntingdon
she would say, indirectly it could be claimed that Cromwell and Pepys were old boys - something which amused Eileen to recall. (The
original Grammar School is now the Cromwell Museum and in 1970
to Cambridge because, although her Manchester where she herself had
gone, Eileen had fallen in love with Girton and “hoped to get in“, even though no one had gone there before her from Huntingdon.
Indeed, she was the first in her
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family to go to university. Eileen
Queen Mary. But the war
and Eileen, the teacher, the
and went up in 1930. She admitted
giving up teaching and going into
George continued his work as a
passed the entrance exams to Girton she had never been able to decide
between English and History, being ambivalent about and interested in both subjects. Thus, she started by
reading English, completing part I of the Tripos with a 2.1, and then
going on to do History part II in her third year in which she gained
another 2.I. In History the papers
included, she recalled, international law, the reign of Queen Anne and European history. G.M.Trevelyan
was teaching at that time. Whilst at Girton she also found time for
sport: she had already been a keen hockey player at school, “remembered by her
contemporaries for her strength and skill on the hockey field”, and at
Girton she was chosen for the first Girton hockey team. She also
played some cricket, a sport which in later life she much enjoyed watching. Eileen said that on
graduating in 1933 she had not particularly wanted to go into
teaching but knew she had to earn her living. Her career as a teacher started with Darlington High
School where she taught junior
history and English for four years.
This was followed by teaching posts in Wallasey High School on the Wirral (1937-41) and Kettering
(1941-7): while at Wallasey she had arranged to get an exchange job
with an American teacher in Mount Holly in New Jersey and got as far as having her luggage on to the
intervened and she contemplated the Forces. However, this was
thought too much for her parents to have both their children serving their country - her brother was
already with the Air Force - and with the death of her brother
during the German invasion of Holland in 1941 she took up
academic, artist and historian.”
freelance fishing correspondent
who would go up to London twice a week to deliver his articles.
Together they enjoyed many days
fishing on the Ouse from the fishing punt George had made. It was a happy marriage.
teaching at Kettering in order to be
Her long association with the
living in Girton; besides Kettering
started to supervise for Girton and
nearer home, her parents now
was a safer part of the country than Liverpool and Wallasey (in August
1940 a bomb actually destroyed the school hall). Her final post was in
1947, at Bedford High, the job she really wanted, as Senior History
Mistress and where she taught for the next 12 years. As well as
history, she also taught sixth form general topics, which was seen as an innovation at the time; her superiors at the school were,
according to her nephew, full of praise for her as a wonderful
teacher. With her marriage in 1957 to George Clifford, she gave up
school teaching and moved back to Cambridge, she because she had always loved the University and
George because he could clo some coarse fishing in the nearby Ouse.
Thus they now moved to the house in Thornton Road which she had
inherited from her parents on the
death of her mother in 1955. Eileen and George were an unusual
couple, according to her nephew:
“George, the fisherman, journalist…
College now commences, as she
became a member of the History Faculty. She became acquainted with her fellow historian Kay
Wood-Legh through whom she was invited to join the Dining Group,
attending her visit meeting (at the
West House Hotel) in January 1957. At the November meeting in 1959 she was elected Steward - a post
which made her a key figure in the developing College and which
brought out all her practical skills. With the move in 1966 into the
College’s first base in Northampton Street, Eileen was a hands-on
steward/domestic bursar, capable
of not only providing food in those
cramped quarters but also of seeing to the simple furnishing of the
rooms and occasionally wielding a paint brush herself According to
Kale Bertram in her History, much
restoration work was required and refurbishment in which Eileen
played a major part in helping to
acquire, by buying and borrowing, the requisite furniture and fittings. In those do-it yourself days, such
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practical skills were invaluable and
from devoting more time to her
the College look on the lease of
Chinese painting, in which she
continued to be drawn upon when College House in 1969 and more
painting and decorating was done
by herself and other volunteers. She claimed to have even done some plastering – of the ceiling at
Strathaird! Later still, when an Emeritus Fellow and a keen
gardener, she happily assisted the garden committee with planting new or donated plants. In her
speech when proposing the toast of
the College at the Annual Dinner in 1975, at which she was presented with a gold watch to mark her retirement as Steward, Eileen recalled the many things the
College had given her as Steward, singling out “the friendliness, the fun, the cooperation, the shared
achievements and the challenges”.
She also humorously recalled some of the more difficult practical
problems she had had to face, such
as the day the gas company decided to dig a trench through the front
drive to coincide with the day the
College moved from Northampton Street to Lady Margaret Road, and the flooding of the cellar at a
weekend, which resulted her in
donning Wellingtons to rescue the college wine which was stored there.
On retirement from the Governing
Body in 1982, Eileen was elected an Emeritus Fellow and continued to
keep in close touch with the College as it grew and developed. Apart
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hobbies, which included learning developed considerable skill, she could now continue with her
researches into church epitaphs. The work this resulted in after 15years of patiently and
methodically visiting all the
churches in the county was her Cambridgeshire Epitaphs, published in 1993 by the
Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust . This had arisen out of an interest in the 18th century
antiquary William Cole whose
Parochial Antiquities had been edited and published by W.M.
Palmer in 1935: Cole catalogued all
the churches in Cambridgeshire and Eileen wished to check his
descriptions. With her husband
George off in London for two days each week, looking around for an interest to pursue, she decided to use these “green clays” to go
around the county to visit churches and study their memorials and the
work was not completed until after
his death. This was a task, or maybe even a labour of love, which
satisfied both her historical and her literary interests and in which her divided loyalties of English and
History came together. The result is a welcome contribution to the
history of the county. To Eileen,
according to her introduction For
My Gentle Readers , the fascination of epitaphs lay in the fact that in them it was possible to catch a
glimpse of the past through the
eyes of ordinary people, and the epitaphs are grouped under
headings such as Human Affection, Eulogies, Untimely Deaths, and lastly, Epitaphs Today. A year
previously, in 1992, Eileen wrote a History of the (College) Site and
Buildings, which is included in the History of the College Garden .’”
Here her starting point was the 19th century maps of Cambridge which
show how the Madingley Road area
started to develop from meadows to cottages and market gardens which
preceded the first residential houses which were to be incorporated into
our College site. Her account covers not only the three original houses
and their first inhabitants but also
includes the much earlier buildings in Northampton Street which the College briefly occupied. Her
History is an important addition to the increasing number of works
devoted to the history of our young College. In 1999, she look the
decision to give up both her car and her house in Thornton Road to
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being typically clear minded and
Sheila Joan Innes 1947-2006
of advancing age and the possible
Sheila Innes came to the College as
been her family home for 60 years
Easter Term 1993. She was Head of
practical when facing the problems loss of her sight. It had of course and she had made friends of her
many neighbours in Thornton Road who continued to visit her after her move. She was sad to have to part with her many books on history,
literature and art but pleased that the College Library could offer
them a home. Eileen was always
good company, thanks in part to
her many interests which extended over a wide and eclectic field -
painting and art, theatre (whether Shakespeare or Gilbert Sullivan,
performances of both of which she was able to enjoy locally in Girton
village and college), gardening and
a Simms Schoolmistress Fellow in Drama and Second in the English
approach to life, her pragmatism,
her sense of humour and readiness to be amused made her such an
interesting and rounded person.
Books, of course, she enjoyed, as
she did so many things, so that it
was never dull in her company: she was much loved as an aunt, godmother, neighbour and colleague.
Ursula Lyons Emeritus Fellow
Cambridge College of Arts and
Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University), and finally a
PGCE in 1979 from Cambridge
Her PGCE teaching practice took
time at the College to modify a
School and she was appointed to
was Shakespeare and she used her Shakespeare Project for Year Nine pupils which had fallen victim to the constraints imposed by the National Curriculum, and to
reassess her A Level Shakespeare
teaching. She returned to Newport Free Grammar School and remained there until her
retirement in August last
year.1
Alderman Newton Girls’ Grammar
together with her ever positive
Thought and Literature from the
taught since 1980. Her main love
Grammar School where she had
both the National Trust and English she had visited and loved. All this
degree in English and European
(Hughes Hall).
Sheila was born in Leicester on 17
Heritage many of whose properties
1973 and in 1978 was awarded a
Department at Newport Free
the countryside, wildlife and pets (especially cats): she belonged to
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March 1947 and educated at
School. She left school after her O
levels and became a receptionist. In
1969 she moved to Uganda with her husband, Michael. For a time she
worked as an assistant evaluator for a UNICEF in-service teachertraining project at Makerere
University in Kampala before
her to Newport Free Grammar
the school in September 1979. She is remembered as a gifted and
inspiring teacher. In an obituary published in the Newport Free Grammar School Newsletter, a former headmaster, Richard
Priestley, wrote “During her 27
years at the school, Sheila taught English, Drama, Theatre Studies
and latterly Philosophy. She was
instrumental in Drama becoming a mainstream subject in the school today. She was passionate about
Theatre Studies and later English
Language becoming part of the A
level curriculum, and started both
these subjects in her own time with enthusiastic students before they
too became part of the mainstream A level provision”. 2
returning to the UK in 1971
Sheila edited a number of study
Ugandan president, Milton Obote,
including All’s Well That Ends Well
following the overthrow of the by Idi Amin.
At home in Sawston, looking after
two young children, Sheila decided to continue her education. She
completed an English A level in
guides to Shakespeare and Chaucer (1993) and The Winter’s Tale (1999) from the Cambridge School
Shakespeare series co-edited with Elizabeth Huddlestone, The
Merchant’s Prologue and Tale
(2001) from the Cambridge School
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Chaucer series, and The Winter’s
returned to Cambridge and entered
doing research in the University but
Measure (2004) from the Cambridge
research student. She was awarded
were somewhat isolated from
Tale (2002) and Measure for
Student Guide. She also wrote several articles on teaching
Shakespeare in Shakespeare and Schools magazine.
Sheila’s association with the College continued through her membership of the Combination Room and she occasionally dined here.
She died on 10 November 2006 from a brain tumour.
Karen Davies Archivist
1 Personal file 2 Newport Free Grammar School Newsletter
Joan Eugenia Whiteley née Keilin 1920-2007 Joan Keilin was born in Cambridge on 24 November 1920, the only
child of Anna Hershlik and David Keilin (1887-1963), an eminent
biologist and parasitologist who was instrumental in bringing
molecular biology to Cambridge.3 Joan read Natural Sciences at Girton (1939-1942) and appeared to be
following in her mother’s footsteps in her pursuit of a medical career, qualifying in 1945 and then
spending a year as house physician & casualty officer at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in
London. However, in 1946 she
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the School of Biochemistry as a her Ph.D. in 1950 for her thesis ‘Reactions of porphyrins and metalloporphyrins with
nitrogenous substances and their bearing on the structure of
hæmoglobin’. In the same year she
became the Beit Memorial Research
did not hold fellowships and so academic life. Joan became a
Founding Fellow of the College but resigned from her fellowship in 1968 following her marriage to
Denys Whiteley, a theologian and tutor at Jesus College, Oxford.
Fellow, a post she held for four
Although an infrequent visitor to
held the same post for several years
invited to college functions and
years, emulating her father who from
1920.4
Joan joined the Department of
Veterinary Clinical Studies in 1955, holding grants in succession from
Cambridge, Joan appreciated being remained in contact until after her retirement in November 1980 as Research Assistant with Oxford Regional Health Authority.6
the Agricultural Research Council
She died on 5 April 2007.
veterinary biochemistry, and in
Karen Davies Archivist
and the Wellcome Trust for
1963 she was appointed Assistant
Director of Research in Veterinary Clinical Studies. Her publications include papers on hæmatin
compounds and hæmopateins in various scientific books and
journals, and she edited The
History of Cell Respiration and
Cytochrome, written by her father and posthumously published in
1966 following his sudden death of a heart attack, it became a key text in the field.
Introduced to the Dining Group by
Margaret Braithwaite in 19535, Joan regularly attended the weekly
dinners held at the Copper Kettle on King’s Parade, enjoying the
supportive environment of women who, like her, were teaching and
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Anne McLaren 1927–2007 Anne McLaren was an exceptional
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successful treatments for infertile
1995 she became President of the
and embryo transfer.
and Engineering. She was not a
women using fertilisation in vitro
scientist. She made fundamental
She spent the next 15 years (1959-
biological research in the fields of
Genetics in Edinburgh where she
discoveries in many areas of basic embryology, developmental and
reproductive biology and genetics. She played a pivotal role in
discussions of ethical issues
involving embryonic and stem cell research. She was the first woman ever to be elected as one of The
Royal Society’s officers as Foreign
Secretary and Vice-President. At an international level she promoted scientific exchange and raised awareness of the medical and
educational needs of developing
countries, was an ideal supervisor of research students and a
role model and champion for
women in science.
74) at the Institute of Animal
nurtured a large group of graduate students, of which I was her only female PhD student. Under her mixture of unstinting support,
tolerance, sense of fun and a highly developed critical faculty we
flourished. Her refusal to put her
name on the papers generated by her students, even when she had
done a considerable amount of the
work (an honourable practice rarely
seen today) was deeply appreciated. In 1974 she left Edinburgh to
become the director of the Medical Research Council’s new
Mammalian Development Unit at University College, London.
Anne Laura McLaren DBE, FRS was
In 1992 she moved to the Gurdon
Henry McLaren, the 2nd Baron
continued research developed in
born in 1927, the daughter of Sir Aberconway, and Christabel
MacNaghten. She was educated at
Longstowe Hall and Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford where she gained a first class degree in Zoology
and a DPhil.
She moved to London as a research fellow, first at University College and then at the Royal Veterinary College working with Donald
Institute in Cambridge where she London on mouse germ cells and the ‘pluripotent’ stem cells that
develop into sperm and eggs. In the same year she was appointed a Fellow of King’s College,
Cambridge and became a Fellow
Commoner at Christ’s College. In
Association for Women in Science feminist. As she said to Cambridge AWISE members ‘It has been my good fortune never personally to have encountered any
discrimination against me as a
woman though I was aware that it existed elsewhere’. She never
thought of herself as a woman
scientist, just as a scientist and a
woman. However, she was acutely aware of the difficulties and challenges of pursuing a demanding career and
simultaneously raising a family.
When asked how she had managed to achieve both so successfully she said ‘I would have been a better
scientist if I hadn’t been a mother
and a better mother if I hadn’t been a scientist”. I am not so sure. She
used other peoples’ perceptions to good effect. I learned from her, in
the 1970’s, how to get a sleeper to oneself on the night train from
London to Edinburgh. Signing in as ‘Dr’ for the second class, one was
automatically assumed to be male, and allocated to share with a man. On the discovery that the ‘Dr’
was a female, an upgrade was hurriedly provided.
1994 she was elected to an
Anne was a Trustee of the Natural
Cavendish College.
to 2003, where she was much
Honorary Fellow at Lucy
Michie, later her husband. In 1958,
Throughout her working life Anne
research led to the development of
of women in the sciences, and in
working with John Biggers, her
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endeavoured to promote the careers
History Museum London from 1994 appreciated for her wisdom and vision. Membership of the
Government’s Warnock Committee on Human Fertilisation and
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Embryology was followed by ten
During her last few years she
splendid personal qualities for
Fertilisation and Embryology
Ark Project, which she had co-
regard make her greatly missed.
years working on the Human
Authority that served to regulate infertility treatment and research and use of human embryos.
Anne received many honorary
degrees and awards, including the Japan Prize for her work in
developmental biology, the
Scientific Medal of the Zoological
Society of London, the Royal Medal
served as a Trustee of the Frozen founded. She was convinced that its aims, to preserve the DNA and viable cells of the world’s
endangered animal species before information for future science and a
Honorary Member of the
vital ‘back-up’ for conservation programmes.
the Study of Fertility. She was a
stem cells and early embryos. She
institutions overseas that included
the Polish Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts &
Sciences and the Russian Academy
of Sciences. In 1986 she was made a Fellow of the Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
for her outstanding contribution to the field of fertility. In 1991 she
became a Founder Fellow in the
Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Fullerian Professor of
Physiology at the Royal Institution.
ethical debates about the use of was a member of the Nuffield
Foundation’s Bioethics Council and of the European Group on Ethics which advises the European
Commission on the social and
ethical implications of new scientific technologies. She was a council member of the Pugwash
Conferences, an organisation
awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1995 for its work to reduce the dangers of armed conflict and to raise awareness of ethical issues created by scientific advances.
As well as writing two academic
Anne died, aged 80, in a car crash
papers, she served on many
Donald Michie, her former husband
books and more than 330 research committees, councils and editorial boards, often as chairman or
which also claimed the life of who was travelling with her.
scientific advisor. They included the
Her death is a tremendous loss to
Special Programme on Human
colleagues, students, friends and all
World Health Organisation’s
Reproduction, and its Panel on Sustainable Development.
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children and seven grandchildren. Dr Ann Clarke
invaluable source of genetic
She was a notable contributor to
foreign member of academic
She is survived by her three
they become extinct, would be an
of the Royal Society and the
Marshall Medal of the Society for
which she was held in such high
the world of science and to her
those who were lucky enough to
enter her orbit. Her particular blend
of idealism, effectiveness and all the
Visiting Scholar 1987-2006; Combination Room 2006-
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Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken 1909-2007 “Laurence Picken was one of the great Cambridge scholars of the
20th century. He was accomplished to such a degree that few even in
the university could appreciate the range of his achievements in fields
that were united in him as in no one else. One of his undergraduate
pupils, Roger Scruton, described
him as ‘a bachelor don of the old
school, an established scholar in the fields of biochemistry, cytology, musicology, Chinese, Slavonic studies and ethnomusicology,
world expert on Turkish musical instruments, Bach cantatas,
ancient Chinese science and reproduction of cells’”.7
He is remembered by the College as
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In the early years of WWII he was
Director of Research in the
region blood transfusion lab,
The Organization of Cells and other
officer-in-charge of the eastern
developing better methods for the filtration and drying of blood plasma. His techniques were
considered so valuable that he was trained by the British Council in
Department of Zoology. His book, Organisms (1960), came to be seen as a landmark in the study of the
relationship between fine structure and function in living matter.
Chinese, so he could join Joseph
In 1966, through the generosity of
China, flying to Chungking from
Pantin, he took the unusual step of
Needham’s scientific mission to
India in 1944. Snatching moments away from his scientific duties, he sought out many traditional
Chinese instruments - pottery
flutes, one-stringed fiddles, mouth organs - and learned to play them all with varying degrees of
proficiency. Such was his skill with the seven-stringed zither (qin) that he was the first European to be
made a member of the Chungking qin society.8
his Head of Department, Carl transferring his position from
zoology to the Faculty of Oriental Studies to pursue his other main
interest, which was Oriental music.9 In 1975 he published Folk Musical Instruments of Turkey, a
monumental work. But in 1981 he embarked on what he saw as the most important work of his life: Music from the Táng Court, a
projected 25-volume reconstruction and transcription of the entire
a generous benefactor with his gifts of furniture and porcelain in 2001, but there is also an earlier
connection when he was the
recipient of a unique musical teaparty held in the grounds of the College in 1976.
Laurence Picken was born in
Nottingham on 16 July 1909. From Waverley Road Secondary School,
Birmingham, he won a scholarship in 1928 to Trinity College,
Dr Laurence Picken’s 67th Birthday Party in the gardens of Lucy Cavendish College (Francesca Bray)
Cambridge, the first from his school to do so. He obtained a Double
First in Natural Sciences and took
Back in Cambridge in 1945, he took
corpus of Chinese Táng dynasty
Cambridge for the rest of his life.
and in 1946 he became Assistant
9th centuries, as preserved in the
his PhD in 1935. He remained at
up a fellowship at Jesus College,
entertainment music of the 7th to
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7 The Times, 24 March 2007 8 The Times, 24 March 2007 9 The Independent, 31 March 2007 10 The Times, 24 March 2007 11 The Independent, 31 March 2007 12 LCC/LH6/7/3 13 LCC/LG9/3/[
Dr Laurence Picken’s 67th Birthday in the gardens of Lucy Cavendish College (Francesca Bray)
Japanese Togaku tradition.10 The
first volume was published in 1991 and the seventh volume appeared when he was 91, before his loss of memory called a halt.11
He would occasionally hold little concerts of his latest discoveries,
charmingly enticing students and Fellows into blowing Hohner
melodicas or banging tabors to
recreate the sound world of an 8thcentury Chinese court. Perhaps inspired by such occasions,
Elizabeth Markham, a former music student at Lucy, arranged for a
musical tea-party in the College gardens in honour of his 67th
birthday. And so it was, on a hot
mouth organ, a double-reed pipe, and a lute.12
His move into the Hope Residential Home in 2001 prompted his
Trustees to arrange his affairs in
accordance with his Will. Owing to
his friendship with Jane Renfrew he had made provision for the College to be a major beneficiary of his more valued possessions.
Accordingly, he donated more than 6o pieces of Chinese and Japanese ceramics (now displayed in the Founders’ Room), and various
items of furniture including a 15thcentury Florentine table which is now in the President’s Lodge.13
July afternoon in 1976, several
He died on 16 March 2007.
engaged in the Táng Music Project)
Karen Davies
students (including some who were played the zither, a flute, a drum, a
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Archivist
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Joan Anne Simms 1918 -2007 On 20 November the college lost a much loved Emeritus Fellow who
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Logic). As the only student in her
She felt enormously privileged to
out of college she found the
Approved Society (1965) to an
year reading this subject, and living experience rather stressful and
lonely. She gained her BA in 1958
and MA in 1961. From 1958 to 1965 she was Senior Lecturer in Primary Education in Saffron Walden
College. In the year that Lucy
Cavendish was founded she joined the Cambridge Institute of
Education as Tutor in Primary
Education. She enjoyed teaching the students here and found
them very stimulating: many were holders of responsible had served the college in many
capacities since becoming Director
of Studies in Education in 1970, for our first two BEd students, and a
Member of the Combination Room. She was born into a Yorkshire
farming family, the Popplewells: her mother and aunts were
teachers, and grandfather and
cousins were preachers. Originally she trained as a Froebel teacher,
following her mother, Janet Park,
and taught primary school children.
In 1948/9 she took the University of Birmingham‘s Diploma in the
Psychology of Childhood and then joined the staff of Homerton
College, Cambridge, as a lecturer in Primary Education. In Cambridge a degree was felt to be necessary and
so she enrolled at Girton College in 1955, as a mature student, to read for a degree in Moral Sciences
(Philosophy, Psychology, Ethics and
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posts and went on to have
distinguished careers in education
see the college develop from
Approved Foundation (1984) and a full college with a Royal Charter (1997), and to work with five
Presidents. She observed with pride the growth of its resources,
buildings, furnishings, facilities, increase in student numbers,
fellows, opportunities for research, and the replanning of the garden.
When she first joined the college in
1970 the college was extremely poor and had recently moved into
College House. Unable to afford to get decorators in Joan and her
both in this country and abroad.
By chance in the 1960s she met Dr
Kathleen Wood-Legh who told her about the Dining Group: she was
impressed by the dedication of the Founding Fellows and found the concept of a college for “older”
women immediately appealing,
especially after her experience at Girton. So when, in 1970, she
received a telephone call at the
Institute from Dr Kate Bertram, President of Lucy Cavendish,
husband donned overalls and
Director of Studies in Education,
the interior themselves. In the 1970s
inviting her to become the first
she accepted at once. She wrote”
little did I know how the pattern of my life from then on was going to diversify and fructify, nor how
close a member of the college I was to become.”
painted the front door and part of
she became a Senior Member and in 1975 Recorder of the Roll: in 1980 she became a Fellow and also
became Steward, a role which she graced with her characteristic
charm and elegance. In 2001 she
was made an Emeritus Fellow, an honour which she greatly valued.
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In her college career she much
the college in June 1985 there was
Natasha Squire and Doris Thoday
giving him a cup of tea and so she
enjoyed working closely with
and also with Lorna Morrison, the Domestic Bursar, and especially
valued their helpfulness and good
humour. I have happy memories of
no suitable crockery to use for
bought a Wedgewood tea service
for the use of the acting President
and future Presidents. There were numerous similar acts of
thoughtfulness which made things better for people in college. After
her husband died in 1990 she gave money to fund the Simms
Schoolmistress Fellowship to enable a teacher to have a sabbatical term in college: when schools began to
find it difficult to release teachers
for this purpose she agreed that it should be transformed into a College Prize for Education. our collaboration over making an
illustrated catalogue of the college’s valued objects in 1989. We found objects which had been long
forgotten in odd corners and made a thorough list of everything of
value and of the people who had given them to the college.
Not only was Joan a meticulous
She married Thomas H. Simms in
September 1959. He was a Trustee and Senior Tutor of Homerton
College for twenty five years, and a
great support to her, and they had a lovely home in Fulbourn. After his death she moved to Marlborough Court, Grange Road, Cambridge
which was her elegant home for the rest of her life.
colleague, she was also a delightful
We shall miss her cheerful, positive
generous friend to the college
extremely grateful for all she has
companion and a modest and most supplying objects where she saw
there was a need to make a room
more attractive or make an occasion run more smoothly. For example
when burglars stole the small silver wheelbarrow which fits onto the
base of the Bidder candelabrum she had an exact replica made; when
Prince Philip made his first visit to
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presence in college and are done for it over the years. Jane M. Renfrew
Governing Body Fellow
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Development News Annual Fund In 2003 the Lucy Cavendish
Annual Fund was created to provide financial flexibility for the College’s pressing
needs. Gifts to the Annual Fund reinforce the College’s
distinctive profile and the
generosity of our alumnae
and friends ensures that we are able to provide the levels of
teaching and support needed here and to do so in a well-maintained learning environment.
We would like to ask all members
of the College to consider giving to the Annual Fund this year. All donations make a difference,
playing a part in enabling us to
continue with the work that we do.
Alumnae Directory
Part of the new website is an
A Giving Form is included with
In Spring 2007 the College launched its new website (www.lucy-
that this will provide an
your Newsletter or is available online http://www.lucy-
cav.cam.ac.uk/media/development /documents/annual-fund.pdf
cav.cam.ac.uk). The site was developed by SoundWave
Marketing run by an alumna,
Alumnae Directory and it is hoped opportunity for Alumnae and
Friends of the College to keep in
touch with us and with each other.
Anna Mace (2004).
Please remember that in order to
Please do not hesitate to contact
News and information on events
we do need you to use your name
Development, if you have any
can book your place at Formal
Meryl Davies, Head of
questions development@lucycav.cam.ac.uk
is posted on the site and you Hall there too.
The Alumnae section includes news of Alumnae and lists of
those for whom we currently do
allow registration on the directory or an email address which we have on our records. The Alumnae Directory can be found at: http://www.lucy-
cav.cam.ac.uk/modules/
smf_forum/smf/index.php
not have an address.
Please do send news and contact details to College:
development@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk
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Features Life Drawing As a new venture the Fine Arts
Committee arranged Life Drawing classes. These were set up and
taught by Helena Greene in the
Michaelmas Term, who introduced us to some fantastic models, and pushed us towards greater
confidence in line drawing and
trying new media. Sadly Helena
had to stop due to illness, but Clare Sinclair continued the challenge in
the Lent Term by encouraging us to try collage and colour.
All of us who came are grateful for this opportunity and feel it helped provide a discipline for both
Discussion is now underway as to
academic pressures through the
our observational skills.
in art at Lucy: it was difficult to
might have an “Arts Weekend� in
improving our artistic efforts and
how to continue to provide teaching maintain regular activity due
year. It has been suggested we
the Lent term with a series of events for different talents- ideas are
welcome as to how we can develop this further
Sarah Gull Fine Arts Committee
Life Drawings by Sarah Gull
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Women in the Media In 1982 an article about Lucy
Cavendish College was featured in
the March edition of Cosmopolitan Magazine and, twenty-five years
later, on 8th March 2007, the college hosted a panel discussion on
‘Women in the Media’. The debate,
which preceded the English Formal Hall, also fell on International
Women’s Day, and questions to the panel asked how and why the preoccupations of women, as
represented in the print media, had changed over the intervening twenty-five years.
The panel included: Yasmin
Alibhai-Brown, author, journalist,
columnist on the Independent and the Evening Standard and Senior
Fellow at the Foreign Policy Centre; Rowan Pelling, columnist on the Independent on Sunday, Booker Prize judge (2004), and former
editor of the Erotic Review; Irma Kurtz, journalist, author, and
Agony Aunt for Cosmopolitan
Magazine; and Marcia Schofield,
Lucy alumna, Chronic and Cancer Pain Specialist, and former
keyboard player with The Fall. It was chaired by Louise Foxcroft, author and Lucy Alumna.
The room was full and the
discussion was lively, covering
questions on race, sex, power and representation. The role of the media in the increasing
sexualisation of society, and the
Life Drawing by Veronica Sutherland
possible damage this might do to
retains ultimate editorial control.
controversial subject. This had
about the attitudes women
young women and girls, was one bearing on the question of women holding more visible positions in the media, as news presenters, columnists etc., which, though
laudable, doesn’t appear to affect
Not least, the panel was asked
journalists and commentators have towards their own sex.
Dr Louise Foxcroft (1992)
the entrenched male majority which
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You Can Live Forever. Julie Maxwell (Jonathan Cape, 2007) Alice is having a crisis of faith. She
has been brought up by her mother, Oonagh, in an End Times church,
The Church of the Worldwide Saints of God, a community sustained by a gratifying belief that they will
shortly ‘be taken to a place of safety - protected from the abominable
sights but still able to hear the faint screams of sinners and the muted pounding of their fists as they
begged to be let in’. The faithful repudiate the limits of a
conventional heaven; they expect to become gods on earth, the
‘universal HQ’, and rule over other, distant, planets. They minimise their contact with Worldlings:
‘everyone in the church said that everyone in The World was a
drug baron or necrophiliac ... so you could be glad to know the
plain truth and be spared their
company’. The sect’s central text is The Unbelievable Potential of Human Beings supported by volumes such as All about
Dating and Courtship Leading to a Christian Marriage, which rejects unmarried physical proximity between couples (‘the grossly
indecent handling of another’s
genitals’) but is vague about what
might follow in virtuous marriage, stressing the need for a sense of humour on honeymoon.
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Julie Maxwell with her book You Can Live Forever
Alice’s Irish father, William, also
disposal, the appropriation of
wife loves him, doubts that Alice
possibly, with poison.
has few doubts. He doubts his
belongs to anyone but him and
obsolete explosive and, quite
doubts the entire belief system of
Alice is not meant to indulge in
with secret girlfriends, arson, body
world - doomed one way or another
the Saints. His certainties are to do
forward-planning in the present
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- and she is already defending her
slightly less immediate. It says it all
‘Shakespeare is very edifying.
‘Even if it shall not be tardy, still it
decision to read English at Oxford. Langland, perhaps even more so. Langland knew the end of the
in Habakkuk 2:3, the Saints are told: shall not be late.’
world was coming.’ But Alice’s
Alice is no longer certain she
physical attraction to Jude, a
Armageddon is on the move
greatest temptation is her
Saint temporarily exiled for some unspecific sexual
misdemeanour, with whom she is lurching towards sin. Alice’s
is immortal; if the date of
the compensations for faithful
self-denial have, in their delay, become less compelling.
excruciating emotional, spiritual
Julie Maxwell has a fine eye for the
towards losing her virginity is
young men with cold hands and
and physiological journey
beautifully and wittily observed. All five of Maxwell’s senses are uncomfortably alert for the
various textures of flesh, fluid,
deliquescence, flaw and failure, and to every nuance of the
exhausting negotiations with the conscience necessary to pursue
sensuality within a tyrannically selfmortifying sect.
But one of the problems of the
immutable truths of this church is
that they admit to change. Change may be broad: a new edict states
that unmarried men and women
should not sit next to each other in the front of the car, or minutely
detailed: the use of Canesten and
Anusol creams is newly permitted, but there are also more
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devout: ‘in the crepuscular foyer,
lips chapped to glacé cherries sold
protective plastic covers for bibles’ and she is clearly in her element
with the fantastic sexual shibboleths of the church. But there are dark
shadows cast by this tale. How can
the identity and the intellect survive within a framework of absolute
faith? What kind of belief exalts in
the prospect of unbelievers’ agony? What is religious morality if not
indifferent to external pressures? What are the limits of parental love? And as for Alice and her
eventual fate, do we judge that
Alice’s sin does, in the end, find her out or that she is simply, triumphantly, mortal?
Elizabeth Speller (1992)
fundamental shifts. The final
apocalypse of the godless, had been expected in ‘the last quarter of the twentieth century. Ish’ and has
hovered over Alice’s entire life. Now allotted a new status it is
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The Founders’ Collection of Children’s Books Amongst the rare books held in the College Library is a
collection of children’s literature from the 19th century. These
books, 45 in total, were donated to the College in 1995 by Dr. Anna Bidder (1903-2001), a founding
fellow and first President of the College (1965-1970), and are collectively known as the ‘Founders’ Collection of
Children’s Books’. Born in Cambridge, Anna and her
elder sister, Caroline (1900-1990), were the daughters of two scientists, George Parker
Bidder III, a zoologist, and
Marion Greenwood, a biologist.
They lived at Cavendish Corner, now the EF School of English on Hills Road. Inscriptions in
many of the books reveal that they were passed down
Sarah Trimmer Miscellanies (n.d.)
library, and managing conservation of the collections.
through generations of Bidder
Following the death of Anna
Anna and Caroline.
Association made a donation of
children before reaching
The books are housed in a
purpose-built rare books room
with temperature and humidity controls. Management of this
collection, and indeed the rare book collection as a whole, provides something of a
challenge to the Librarian
and the Archivist through the demands of cataloguing
specialist collections of rare books, a task which differs markedly from that of
cataloguing modern texts
for a predominantly undergraduate
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Bidder in 2001, the Alumnae
at the end of the Easter Term
which used examples from the collection to present a brief history of 19th century children’s literature.1
£1000 for the repair and
Children’s books flourished
Collection of Children’s Books,
levels of literacy steadily
conservation of the Founders’ in memory of Anna and in
recognition of her contribution
to the founding and development of the College. This generous
during the 19th century: increased, and technical
advances made it possible
to produce large numbers of
books at lower prices.2 There
donation has provided for the
was also a growing acceptance
last of which was completed
not only to be informed and
repair of eleven books, the
this summer. To mark the
end of the alumnae-funded
conservation programme, the opportunity was taken to showcase this fascinating
collection through an exhibition
that children had the right educated but also to be
entertained. This is characterised by the changing tone of the
literature, from didactic and explicitly moral texts at the
beginning of the 19th century to
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Maria Edgeworth, Mary Martha
Thomas Day’s (1748-1789) most
Martineau are focused on a didactic
History of Sandford and Merton (3
Sherwood, Maria Hack, and Harriet theme, rather than a dramatic
situation and the relationships between characters.
As a devout evangelical Anglican, Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810)
disapproved of children’s literature which lacked any didactic element and failed to provide moral
instruction. She had a particular Sarah Trimmer The Ladder to Learning (1789)
literature which was enjoyable (albeit implicitly moral) and
inherently more appealing. 3 Authors who shaped children’s literature are well-represented amongst the collection, from
Sarah Trimmer, who disapproved of children’s literature which
failed to provide moral instruction, through to Kenneth Grahame
and his sharp, authentic vision
of childhood which has inspired writers of children’s literature
in the 20th century. Half of the
collection was published between
1870 and 1910 in what has become known as ‘The Golden Age of Children’s Literature’.
The ideal late Georgian child
was rational and well-informed; their books were serious, moral,
and dense with facts. The stories of Sarah Trimmer, Thomas Day,
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dislike of fairy stories, describing Cinderella as a tale inculcating “envy, jealousy, a dislike for
mothers-in-law and half-sisters, vanity, [and] a love of dress.”
Thus, in her own Miscellanies (n.d.) she promoted piety and
hard work, with story titles
such as ‘The dangers of delays’ and ‘The punishment of
wilfulness’. However, later
celebrated children’s book The
volumes, 1783-1789) was intended
to illustrate the doctrine that many may be made good by instruction and by an appeal to reason. It
consists of a serious of episodes in which the rich and objectionable
Tommy Merton, the spoilt son of a wealthy plantation owner from Jamaica, is contrasted with his
friend, Harry Sandford, the poor
but worthy son of a local farmer. Eventually Tommy is reformed,
partly through the intervention of their tutor, Mr Barlow. A host of interpolated stories, providing
introductions to ancient history, astronomy, biology, science,
exploration, and geography, enable facts and figures to be absorbed
relatively painlessly but the main
students of educational
methods and children’s books credit her with an innovation that became commonplace in
the 19th century: she popularized the use of pictorial material in books for children.
Trimmer also provided several texts for use in charity schools, including reading instruction in The Ladder of Learning (1789, 1792). A
collection of fables, the book was
“arranged progressively in words of one, two, and three syllables, with original morals.”
Thomas Day The History of Sandford and Merton (1783-1789)
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The Parent’s Assistant, or Stories for Children (1796) was the first
evidence of Maria Edgeworth’s
(1768-1849) concern to write for
children. Writing in the Preface of Moral Tales in [1801], her father says that it is an attempt “to
provide for young people…a few Tales, that shall neither dissipate the attention, nor inflame the
imagination.” For example, in the tale of ‘Angelina’, the character of Miss Burrage “is the picture of a
young lady, who meanly flatters
persons of rank; and who, after she has smuggled herself into good company, is ashamed to Maria Edgeworth, Moral Tales (1801)
acknowledge her former friends, to whom she was bound by the strongest ties of gratitude.”
Mary Sherwood (1775-1851) was
narrative easily holds the attention.
one of the most prolific of the
What comes through is the
evangelical writers (over 400 titles
basic Christian message that
are assigned to her), and her
members of society should
History of the Fairchild Family, the
be kind not only to each other but
first part of which appeared in 1818
also to the poor and the sick, to
(its tremendous success leading to a
those of a different race, and to
second part in 1842 and a third in
animals, birds, and insects. They
1847), was one of the most
should labour to the best of their
universally read juvenile books of
ability and contribute to a
the century. Described by F. J.
common pool of goods and
Harvey Darton as “the
happiness. But for the idle rich,
quintessential reading experience
particularly those who wear
for every nineteenth-century
fine clothes, play cards, and treat
middle-class child”, the Fairchild
lesser mortals with contempt,
children are by turns miscreants
the author has no mercy. Despite
and religious zealots. Whether
its didacticism, this work was
writing for children or adults,
very popular: it was destined to be a best-seller for 80 years, and was translated into several languages.
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Mary Sherwood, The History of the Fairchild Family (1818)
Sherwood was unwilling to temper Mary Sherwood, The History of the Fairchild Family (1818)
her conviction of inherent human
corruption: Mr Fairchild conducts
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providing essentially episodic and anecdotal introductions
to the subject. Winter Evenings was still appearing in revised editions in the 1870s.
Sarah Ellis’s (1799-1872) fiction for children, found mainly in Fisher’s Juvenile Scrap-Book (1840-1848), inculcates simple moral lessons
applicable to either sex. Fireside
Tales for the Young, a collection of stories from various editions of Fisher’s Juvenile Scrap-Book,
doesn’t disappoint in this regard.
The Preface notes that “lively and
attractive as they are, [these Fireside Tales] are totally free from hurtful Maria Hack, Winter Evenings (1818)
his quarrelling youngsters to view
the rotting corpse of a fratricide on
or dangerous excitement; and while they are sufficiently
entertaining to rivet the attention
of the young, they are sufficiently
Joseph Cundall, Treasury of Pleasure Books for Young People (n.d.) with illustrations by Harrison Weir
instructive to deserve a permanent place in the juvenile library.”
The Playfellow (1841) by Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), character
and plot development are slight,
but it remained in print for over a
a gibbet to teach them ‘that our
century to enforce the stern lesson
hearts by nature are full of hatred.’
to readers of the willingness to suffer for what is right.
Sherwood spent ten years in India (1805-1816) with her soldier
husband and the country remained
Advances in technology made
writing career, as evidenced in
illustrations and so contributed to
possible the printing of colour
a rich resource throughout her long
an ever-growing market for lively
tracts and novels such as Henry
and attractive material. In the early
Milner (1823) and its sequel John
1840s Joseph Cundall (1818-1895)
Marten (1844).
began an ambitious publishing
project, the Home Treasury series,
In Winter Evenings (4 vols., 1818), a
the aim of which was to improve
mother teaches geography through
the standard of illustrated
the medium of travellers’ tales to
children’s books. The printer was
her two children, Harry and Lucy. It sets a pattern for a variety of
other educational works by Maria Hack (1777-1844) which follow,
Charles Whittingham the younger Sarah Ellis, Fireside Tales for the Young (n.d.)
at the Chiswick Press, whose
typography and press-work were
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unrivalled. This edition of Treasury
of Pleasure Books for Young People (pictured) features finely detailed
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animals. Thackeray paid tribute to
Cundall for the quality of the books.
illustrations on almost every page,
John Millais (1829-1896) too
Harrison Weir (1824–1906), and his
to the revival of book illustration
including those of the artist,
celebrated drawings of birds and
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made a distinguished contribution in the 1860s, and his work can
be seen in William Rands’s Lilliput
Levee (1864), a book of verse for children with illustrations.
Rands (1823-1882) has been
described as the ‘laureate of the nursery’, Lilliput Levee (his best-known work) was
followed by Lilliput Lectures (1871), and Lilliput Legends (1872). All three were published
anonymously. Lilliput Levee
contains some delightful verse,
from the opening poem, in which children take over control of the
world from adults, to such nearclassics as ‘Topsyturvey-world’ and ‘The Dream of a Girl who Lived at Seven-Oaks’. He
often memorably catches the mind, the voice, and the
imagination of the child. Arthur Layard’s illustrations in
Billy Mouse and Harriet Hare are attractive examples of the greater use of colour printing.
The publishers, Dean and Son, were also part of the trend to provide
amusement and pleasure in books for children, rather than simply serving as tools for instruction. They were one of the first
publishers of children’s books to
enter the field of movables, books which use simple animation
devices, e.g. the tab, which when
pulled causes characters to spring alive. Dean and Son produced
about fifty movables in the last half of the 19th century, making the Arthur Layard’s illustrations in Billy Mouse
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publishing company the leading
producer of such works at the time.
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Such publications provided the
fundamental elements for children’s fantasies: delightful characters,
expertly drawn, in a framework inviting imaginative play. 4
In Deans New Dress Book: Rose
Merton the Little Orphan [1860],
every cliché of a nineteenth-century heroine’s life finds its way into this tale. Rose Merton, virtuous and
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have been the favourite reading of
young officers in the Crimean War. In keeping with the themes of
many of her novels, The Young
book is interesting to modern readers, having a noticeably feminist angle and dealing
realistically with the problems of a second marriage and
Stepmother (1861) explores the
family. It is also a mine of
lives, duty versus ambition, and
mobility, ecclesiastical change
moral conflicts of sheltered the difference between real
and apparent goodness. The
information about social and developments in
education and housing.
trusting orphan, overcomes all
manner of adversity after being tricked from her aunt’s house
and kidnapped by gypsies. The
book conveys her various
hardships and triumphs by
using different kinds of fabric in her dress. For example, as
her fortunes sink, her pretty pink and white skirt gets exchanged for a plaid rag. The use of real
cloth and ribbon is a rare novelty effect, but however much this
may have delighted children, the book firmly reinforces the moral and social context of the day.
The cost of cutting-out cloth and hand-colouring scenes most
likely limited the edition sizes
and so the copy in our collection is probably a rare example.
Charlotte Yonge (1823-1901)
wrote mainly for young women readers, of whom she had a world-wide following, but
her books were also admired
by her literary contemporaries: Tennyson, Kingsley, Rossetti, and Morris, and were said to
Arthur Layard’s illustrations in Harriet Hare
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The turn of the century saw a great flowering. Kenneth Grahame
(1859-1932) broke new ground with his evocation of the
ruthless egocentricity of childhood in The Golden Age (1895). This
collection of stories of childhood was seen as a breakthrough in writing about childhood, debunking the cult of the
‘beautiful child’. The Academy noted: ‘So typical are their
thoughts and actions, misgivings and ambitions, that The Golden Age is to some extent every reader’s biography’, and
thus it was perceived as a book about childhood for adults. Although it appealed to
the popular taste at the time,
it has not retained its popularity, unlike that literary classic,
The Wind in the Willows (1908).
However, the style and approach of The Golden Age provided a model - through writers such as Edith Nesbit and
Rudyard Kipling - for much
of twentieth-century children’s literature.
If you would like to see any of the
books illustrated (and others in the collection), access can be arranged Deans New Dress Book: Rose Merton the Little Orphan (1860)
The dedication is to a Winifred
hopes [these] little books will
Cavendish and reads: ‘With all
has always found them:
Fiennes from our own Lucy
good wishes and prayers, from Lucy C. F. Cavendish, who
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be to her what L. C. F. C.
dear friends ‘among all the changing scenes of life.’’
through either the Librarian or Archivist.
Karen Davies Archivist
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1 The principal sources used in writing this article were The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online) and The Oxford Companion to English Literature (6th edition). 2 Morna Daniels, ‘Aspects of the Victorian book: children’s books’, http://www.bl.uk/collections/early/victoria n/pu_child.html 3 Jacquelyn Lewis, ‘Children’s publishing at the turn of the Century – a lasting impression?’, http://apm.brookes.ac.uk/publishing/culture /lewis.html 4 http://www.lib.virginia.edu/ small/exhibits/popup/deans.html
Kenneth Grahame The Golden Age (1895)
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