The University of Oxford has 36 colleges, three societies, and four permanent private halls of religious foundation. The colleges and PPHs are autonomous self-governing corporations within the univers
Aerial view (looking north) of many of the colleges of the University of Oxford
Brasenose College in the 1670s
Somerville College, Oxford
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Somerville College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. It began admitting men in 1994. Th
Somerville College Hall
The mathematician and scientist Mary Somerville, 1780–1872, after whom the college is named. Portrait of Mary Somerville by Thomas Phillips, 1834
Somerville College Library with hyacinths
House seen from the Quad