We are delighted to announce that St Anne’s Fellow, Professor Alan Cocks, has been made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. The Academy notes: Alan Cocks is an international leader in materials engineering who has made seminal and lasting contributions to understanding the performance of components and systems under extreme loadings. His work …
(Laurence) Michael Dillon, born Laura Maude Dillon, was the first person in the UK to undergo hormone treatment and surgery for a female to male transition between 1939 and 1949. He attended The Society of Oxford Home-Students (now St Anne’s College) from 1934 to 1938. This blog post draws heavily on the Oxford chapter of …
This article is part of a series. Click to read the first entry here. This portrait of Jenkins hangs in the Library. Canon Claude Jenkins (1877–1959) was a historian, librarian and Church of England clergyman. Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and a Canon of Christ Church from 1934 until his death, he was also known as an …
This article is part of a series. Click to read the first, second and third entries. In 1936, the Nettleship Library was 15,000 books housed in “four dark little rooms” at Jowett Walk. The Society of Oxford Home-Students, for 60 years now a somewhat nomadic entity, had desperate need of more permanent space to call its …
This article is part of a series. Read the first entry here and the second here. In October 1920 the statutes were revised so that women in the University were at long last able to matriculate and graduate with degrees. With this revision came a large number of retrospective graduations for those women who had met …
This article is part of a series. Read the first entry here. The flurry of benefaction in which the Nettleship Library had been established could not last indefinitely and, in 1903-4, the committee reported that the budget for books had fallen again. The diminishing book budget [p.9, 1903-1904, A.E.W. Annual Report] To continue to finance the …
The Nettleship Collection is the official name for the Library of St Anne’s College. Why Nettleship? Henry Nettleship (1839–1893) was a Classics scholar described by the ODNB as ‘shy, diffident, hesitant, and sometimes abrupt in manner, inclined to hero-worship, and with a strong sense of injustice’. His wife is more generous in her memorial to …
The early registers of The Society of Oxford Home-Students record a high number of overseas members. 580 total students (of all nationalities) passed through The Society between 1888* and 1911, and of these, 117 were American women. It is interesting to see what an international presence The Society and the women’s colleges (or halls) were …