With our new intake of students about to arrive, this object from cutting album 3 in the Archive highlights when women first became full members of the University in 1920. The Principals of Lady Margaret Hall, St. Hilda’s, Somerville, St. Hugh’s and the Oxford Home Students (later St. Anne’s) pose outside the Sheldonian Theatre, having been awarded Honorary Degrees. 

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Principals' of women's Colleges are awarded degrees