Women at Cambridge: The ladder of academic success

The impact of women at Cambridge is incalculable. In 1869, Girton College became the first women’s college at Cambridge, and the first in Britain, to offer residential higher education for women. But Cambridge University did not grant degrees to women until the late 1940s, the last British University to do so.

In this third of four films, co-curator of Cambridge University Library’s The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge exhibition, Dr Ben Griffin, is joined by Girton Fellow Dr Dorothy Thompson, to discuss the impact of Muriel Clara Bradbrook, former mistress of Girton College and the first women to become a professor in the Faculty of English. Here, they look at a board game, created by Bradbrook, following the life of a female academic at Cambridge.

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© Muriel Clara Bradbrook by Bassano Ltd, National Portrait Gallery, London (https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image/?email=&form=cc&mkey=mw90605)
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Cambridge University Women's Boat Club B, Womens Head of The River 2012
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