Margaret Tuke
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Dame Margaret Janson Tuke was a British academic and educator. She was the youngest child of the philanthropist James Hack Tuke. She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in
Margaret Tuke by Francis Dodd
Newnham College, Cambridge
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Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
Margaret Tuke
…in Michaelmas term 1879. In 1885, she became one of the first women to go up to Cambridge University, where she read Modern and Medieval Languages at Newnham, gaining the equivalent of a first class honours degree in 1888. As women were not awarded degrees by Cambridge at the time, her BA and MA were conferred…
Dining hall in March 2014
Sidgwick Hall and the Sunken Garden
Pfeiffer Arch – the main entrance to the college before the Porters' Lodge moved to Sidgwick Avenue
The Old Labs, converted from a laboratory to performance space