Highlights from the College Hall Archive
Browse a series of highlights from the College Hall Archive on display in the Membership Hall of Senate House Library for Women's History Month 2023.
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Examination for Women
General Examination for Women 1869.
Letter regarding the examinations for women
Letters of France Mary Buss concerning observations arising from the UoL women's examinations 1st June 1876
Request for legal opinion on whether a woman can become a Candidate for a Diploma in Medicine.
Teaching Women
Address to the students of College Hall on the occasion of the close of the last session in Byng Place by Mary Brodrick, PH.D., F.R.G.S., Dame of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem entitled, 'Retrospect and Prospect "Farewell and All Hail!"'.
Address by Miss MacDonald on behalf of past and present students of College Hall to Miss Grove and Miss Morison on the occasion of their resigning the posts of principal and vice-principal of the hall, with a reply from Miss Grove and Miss Morison, 15 October 1900.
The higher education of women / by Emily Davies Davies, Emily, 1830-1921.
Concerning the methodology of teaching women, including comments on the 'Proposed College for Women'.
Concerning the methodology of teaching women, including comments on the 'Proposed College for Women'.
Letter from Clara Collet to Mary Booth, signed, 25 Nov 1916.
Educated working women : essays on the economic position of women workers in the middle classes / by Clara E. Collet
On her promotion. Board of Trade, Labour Dept., 43 Parliament St., S.W., [London].
College Hall
College Hall, London. Byng Place 1882 - Malet Street 1932. [illustration]
Printed material on College Hall collected by Thrya Alleyne
Sketch of a Proposed Hall of Residence for 50 Women students, June 1882.
Sketch of a room in the Hall of Residence for Women Students, June 1882.
A brief history of College Hall designed to encourage subscriptions to its Jubilee Building and Equipment Fund. It was written in 1932 as work was underway on the construction of the new building of College Hall in Malet Street which was to open later in the year.
Photograph of College Hall in 1957.
College Hall Residents
Framed photo of Elizabeth Blackwell
Photograph of Eleanor Grove and Rosa Morison.
Rukhmabai, M.D., first Medical Officer of the Hospital for Women and Children, Surat, India.
Clara Collet, M.A., first woman appointed as Labour Correspondent in the Commercial, Labour, and Statistical Departments, Board of Trade, Whithall.
Mary Brodrick, Ph.D., writer and lecturer on Egyptology
Louisa MacDonald, first prinicpal of the Women's College University of Sydney, fully affiliated to the University, and in all respects on an equal footing with the Men's Colleges.
Formal photo of the residents of College Hall in 1946.
Family group includes Beatrice Potter (later Beatrice Webb).
Letter from former College Hall student Lucy Chen for the memorial service for Lucie Dobson.
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