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The latest news from Newnham’s Fellows, researchers, students and staff.

Professor Jenn Ashworth shares new memoir-in-progress at Honorary Fellowship event

Professor Jenn Ashworth (NC 2000) attended a special event at Newnham to mark her Honorary Fellowship. Jenn is Professor of Writing at Lancaster University and studied English at Newnham, matriculating in 2000. She completed…

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The group photo shows the Principal and Fellows in 1936, with Pernel Strachey (front row, 3rd from left), Alda Milner-Barry (middle row, 4th from left), and Dorothy Garrod (back row, 3rd from left).

Research uncovers secrets of Newnham women sent to codebreak at Bletchley Park  

New exhibition tells the incredible story of Newnham College women’s war work, at Bletchley Park and beyond More than 70 former students of Newnham College were secretly recruited for World War Two codebreaking work…

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Professor Julia Gallagher

Margaret Anstee Centre seminar: How Architecture Makes States

Global studies research centre launches new lecture series Professor Julia Gallagher (Kings College London) explored political authority through state architecture in sub-Saharan Africa, in a talk hosted by the Margaret Anstee Centre at Newnham…

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head and shoulders photo of Eva Smith

What’s in a name? The story of Eva Smith

Karin Horowitz (NC 1978), Honorary Associate explores the life of fellow Newnham alumna Eva Smith, immortalised through one of our postgraduate accommodation houses. I lived in Eva Smith House for three years when I…

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International PhD students (left to right): Chisom Ifeobu; Sally Montgomery; Tamara Zambiasi; Noor Mazhar

Postgraduate focus: Tackling big world challenges

One of the factors that makes Newnham such a stimulating intellectual environment is the presence of a large, diverse body of postgraduate students who come from a wide range of educational systems and many…

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Book cover and portrait of Clare Balding

Cambridge Literary Festival features Newnham alumnae this Spring

Booking is now open for the annual Cambridge Literary Festival and this year there are several speakers with strong links to Newnham. Former Principal of Newnham, Dame Carol Black, will be chairing Nobel Prize-winning…

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Newnham’s medieval manuscript of Piers Plowman preserved for the 21st Century and beyond

Newnham College Library has digitised a medieval manuscript in Cambridge Digital Library, preserving it for the centuries to come. This manuscript, Newnham MS 4, dates to the first half of the 15th century and contains…

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Fiona Gilbert in the Radiology Department

Research feature: Scanning: the horizon

After seeing ever more precise imaging and computer-aided technology improve the detection of disease, Consultant Radiologist and Professorial Fellow Fiona Gilbert is excited about the potential for Artificial Intelligence to transform medicine, but aware…

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Dr Hannah Lucas in Newnham College library. Photo by Dasha Tenditna

Research feature: In contemplation of wellbeing

Newby Trust Research Fellow Dr Hannah Lucas explores what we can learn from medieval contemplative practice to support wellbeing and bring calm to our fast-paced lives. Alone in her room and poring over texts,…

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Head and shoulders photo of Newnham College Principal Alison Rose

Principal reflects on her time as Ambassador in recording for the Churchill Archives 

Three years after she left the UK Foreign Office, Alison Rose was invited to take part in the British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, which records the recollections of former diplomats. The programme aims to…

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