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
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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
Indira Gandhi
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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian stateswoman who twice served as the Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India's first and o
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…2025, the seventh highest of an Oxford undergraduate college. Its sister college at Cambridge is Girton. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Vera Brittain and Dorothy L. Sayers. In June 1878, the Association for the Higher Education of Women was…
Young Indira with Mahatma Gandhi during his fast in 1924, Indira is dressed in a khadi garment and shown following Gandhi's advocacy that khadi be worn by Indians instead of British-manufactured textiles
Indira Gandhi and her father, Nehru at an antibiotics manufacturing facility, Poona, 1956.
Indira Gandhi with Australian Prime Minister John Gorton in 1968
Gandhi with U.S. President Richard Nixon, 1971